公众人物毕业演讲 第141期:2012年Michael Lewis普林斯顿大学(5)

 　　They don't want to acknowledge¹ the role played by accident in their lives

　　他们不愿承认机会事件 在他们生命中所扮演的角色

　　There is a reason for this the world does not want to acknowledge it either

　　他们这么认为是有原因的 这个世界也不愿意承认运气的角色

　　I wrote a book about this, called Moneyball

　　为这我写了一本书 叫《点球成金》

　　It was ostensibly about baseball but was in fact about something else

　　这表面上是写棒球 其实是在写别的东西

　　There are poor teams and rich teams in professional baseball and they spend radically² different sums of money on their players

　　在职棒里有穷的球队和富的球队 他们用在球员身上的钱有巨额的差异

　　When I wrote my book the richest team the New York Yankees, was then spending about $120 million on its 25 players

　　当我写这本书的时候 职棒里最富的球队 纽约洋基队 在它的25名球员身上花费约1.2亿美元

　　The poorest team, the Oakland A's

　　而最穷的队 奥克兰A队的花费

　　They was spending about $30 million

　　大约是3000万美元

　　And yet the Oakland team was winning more games or as many games as the New York Yankees

　　然而奥克兰队却赢了比洋基多 或者说和洋基一样多的比赛

　　Then more games than every other team all of them were richer than they were

　　并超过其他任何一家 比奥克兰队更富有的球队

　　This isn't supposed to happen. In theory rich teams should buy the best players and win all the time

　　这本是不应发生的 理论上讲 有钱的球队应该买最好的球员 并赢得所有比赛

　　But the Oakland team had figured something out that no one else figured out the rich teams didn't really understand

　　但奥克兰队发现了一个 其他人没有发现的秘密 有钱的球队并不真正明白谁是最好的球员

　　who the best baseball players were. The players were misvalued

　　球员们被错估了

　　And the biggest single reason they were misvalued was that the experts did not pay sufficient attention to the role of luck in baseball success

　　而他们被错估的根本原因在于 专家们没有在棒球成功中 给予运气足够的重视

　　Players got given credit for things they did that depended on the performance of others pitchers³ got paid for winning games hitters got paid for knocking in runners on base

　　球员们因他们基于其他人的好表现上 做的事情而得到称赞 投手的身价由胜场决定 击球手的身价由送垒上跑者得分决定

　　Players got blamed and credited for events beyond their control

　　球员们因他们无法控制的事件而受到批评或称赞

　　Where balls that got hit happened to land on the field, for example

　　比如说他们击中的球恰好落在场地的哪个位置

　　So forget baseball, forget sports

　　放下棒球和体育不谈

　　Here you had these corporate⁴ employees, paid millions of dollars a year

　　现在你有一批企业员工 年薪几百万美元

　　They were doing exactly the same job that people in their business done for more than one century

　　他们做的事和他们行业里其他人 一直以来做的事没有任何差别

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1 acknowledge   

vt.承认...的权威，告知，收到，报偿

参考例句：

• With so much evidence against him he had to acknowledge his error.在这么多的证据面前，他不得不承认错误。
• It is ungracious of me not to acknowledge your help.你大力帮助而我尚未表示谢意，十分失礼。

2 radically   

ad.根本地，本质地

参考例句：

• I think we may have to rethink our policies fairly radically. 我认为我们可能要对我们的政策进行根本的反思。
• The health service must be radically reformed. 公共医疗卫生服务必须进行彻底改革。

3 pitchers   

大水罐( pitcher的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Over the next five years, he became one of the greatest pitchers in baseball. 在接下来的5年时间里，他成为了最了不起的棒球投手之一。
• Why he probably won't: Pitchers on also-rans can win the award. 为什麽不是他得奖：投手在失败的球队可以赢得赛扬奖。

4 corporate   

adj.共同的，全体的；公司的，企业的

参考例句：

• This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
• His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。