来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：金融理论 第2集 第2集》

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  and I would say that half the time
  我想说一半的情况下
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  somebody buys something for more than it's worth to them.
  某些人以高于实际价值的价格某买物品
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  Nobody made a mistake
  没有人犯错误
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  and it almost came out exactly as it should,
  它几乎精确地按照应该发生的那样发生
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  but we'll come to that in a second.
  但是我们一会再来说它
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  Anyway, that double auction is the most complicated kind of auction,
  不管怎么说 双向拍卖是最复杂的拍卖
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  but auctions have been run for a long time.
  但是拍卖已经存在了很长的时间
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  The first recorded auction you may have heard about was
  你可能听说过的第一个有记录的拍卖是
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  Herodotus describes
  在公元前五百年希罗多德
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  the Babylonian auction in 500 B.C.
  描述的巴比伦拍卖
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  These are all going to be very politically incorrect,
  这种拍卖似乎相当的政治不正确
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  but a lot of economics is politically incorrect.
  但很多经济学知识都是政治不正确的