" My father told me, 'You always want to be in the middle, '" he said.

“我爸爸跟我说，你总是想做一个人。”他说。

Maybe playing it safe is the wrong approach.

或许不是正确经商之道。

Hut two! He looks downfield... he's got the wily old veteran in the open!

发现一名老将无人防传球，接球 等等.

STEVE STROGATZ: You know, kids are taught median, mean.

史蒂夫·斯特罗加茨：你知道，孩子们接受教育是。

This is the so-called Doctrine of the Mean we understand today.

这就是我们今天所理解所谓之道。

Now two curious students are wondering whether Shakespeare advocates living a life of moderation or one of passionate engagement.

现在，两位好奇学生正在思考，莎士比亚是否倡导过一种生活方式，还是鼓励人们全身心投入、充满激情地生活。

The Doctrine of the Mean we talk about today seems to be similar to the kind of people Confucius scolds.

我们今天所说之道，似乎和孔子骂那种人很相似。

Kennedy's reading tastes ran more to James Bond novels than to literature, and his musical preferences were for middlebrow popular songs.

肯尼迪阅读品味更偏向于詹姆斯·邦德（James Bond）小说，而不是文学，他音乐偏好是流行歌曲。

This makes the current field of conflict an unfortunate one — in the real world, we can practise moderation, emotional flexitarianism.

这使得当前冲突领域成为一个不幸领域——在现实世界，我们可以实行、情绪化弹性素食主义。

The prize was certainly great; but it was only to be won by striking the happy mean between precipitancy and caution.

奖品当然很棒；但只有在鲁莽和谨慎之间找到合适之道才能赢得胜利。

The BBC podcast Seriously has listed some tips for disagreeing better, including not aiming for the middle ground-another way of saying 'compromising'.

BBC播客节目《Seriously》列出了一些更好地提出异议建议，包括不以保持——妥协另一种说法——为目。

Philosophers have their own golden idea. The " golden mean" says moderation in all things is the best way to live one's life.

哲学家都有自己金点子（golden idea），之道（ golden mean）称，在所有事物，是生活最好方法。

We seem to have sort of set points and aspects of us that we fall back to that make the idea of a mean a psychologically plausible claim.

我们似乎有某种设定点和方面，我们回到了这些方面，这使得想法在心理上是合理主张。

If we put all the kids who needed literacy support into one class, and all the students who want to discuss the virtue of moderation into another?

如果我们把所有需要识字支持孩子放在一个班，把所有想讨论德学生放在另一个班？

But the moderation that gave heart to liberals has roots in Kennedy's upbringing in the cozy neighborhood of Land Park in Sacramento, a picture-perfect family enclave in midcentury California.

尽管如此，他那鼓舞了自由主义者之道早已根植于肯尼迪成长过程，根植于世纪加利福尼亚一个家庭飞地——萨克拉门托土地公园附近那个舒适小区。