来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡 第1集 第1集》

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  at the end of the semester,
  在学期末
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  when we're figuring out your semester grade,
  当我们算出你的分数后
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  we'll give the later,
  我们会给之后那篇
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  stronger papers more than their official weight.
  较好的论文更大的分值比重
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  For many of you,
  对大部分人而言
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  the first paper will be clearly the worst paper you write.
  第一篇论文会很明显是最差的一篇
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  And then we'll just throw that grade away;
  那么我们会把这篇论文的分数扔到一边
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  give greater weight to the second and third papers.
  给第二三篇论文更大比重
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  If the third paper is the strongest,
  如果第三篇论文最好
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  we will give even more weight to the third paper.
  我们会让第三篇论文占更大的比重
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  There's no formula here,
  这没什么公式定律
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  a great deal depends on the overall pattern,
  主要是看整体情况