how many coins are in the jar?

只考虑罐子里有多少硬币
If you win.

你赢了
I claim you only care how many coins are in the jar,

我是说如果你仅仅考虑罐子里有多少硬币
or how much oil is in the well, if you win, if your bid is the winning bid.

或油井里面有多少油如果你赢得拍卖
If your bid is the winning bid what do you know?

如果你出的价赢了你会知道什么呢
You know that your estimate was the highest estimate in the room

你会知道你的估值是这个房间里最高的
(at least if this equilibrium has the property that bids are

至少不难预计的是只要机会均等
increasing in estimates per se, which is not much to expect).

在每一论评估的后出价都会上涨
So you know in this case,

所以在这个情况下
you would have an estimate Yi that was at least

你做出的估值Yi至少要和
as big as Yj for all the other people in the room.

其他所有人的估值Yj一样大
So where are we?

那我们到哪步了