来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：心理学导论 第16集 第16集》

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  When paid a dollar they said, "Well, I don't want to be a donkey.
  当他们只拿一美元时 他们说 我可不想当傻瓜
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  I don't want to be some guy who does this boring thing for a dollar.
  我可不愿意 为了一美元做那么无聊的事
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  It wasn't that bad really, it was kind of interesting, I learnt a lot,"
  其实这也不是那么无聊 这还是蛮有趣的 我学到了很多
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  to justify what they did. This has a lot of real world implications.
  他们会这么想来调节自己 这个理论对现实生活有很多启发
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  Festinger did a wonderful study with people-- a group of people,
  费斯廷格还进行了一个很有趣的实验 在一群人中
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  and he wrote this up in a book called When Prophesy Fails,
  他把这个实验写成了一本书《当预言失败时》
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  who were convinced that the world was going to end
  这群人相信世界末日就要来临
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  so they went on a mountain and they waited for the world to end.
  于是他们聚集到一座山上等待世界末日
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  They had a certain time and date when the world was going to end.
  他们认为世界在某天的某个时刻会灭亡
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  He hung out with them and then the time passed and the world didn't end.
  他和他们一起等 而当那个时刻过去之后 世界没有灭亡
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  What people then said, and this is what he was interested in--;
  这时那些人说 这是他所感兴趣的部分
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  So, people's predictions were totally proven wrong and they left their families,
  人们的预言证明是彻底错误的 他们离开了家庭