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1·But even discounting that, at a time of widespread disaffection with Bush and the Republican party more generally, the inertia of public opinion heading into an election seemed to favour Obama.

不过，就算抛开这个因素，由于正处在对布什和共和党的不满情绪愈演愈烈之际，公众观点的惯性使得大选似乎越来越有利于奥巴马。

2·Most of the contributors to the new book agree that this peculiar irrationality stems from our relationship to time—in particular, from a tendency that economists call hyperbolic discounting.

这本新书中大部分的作者都同意，这种怪异的非理性源自于我们和时间的关系，尤其是一种被经济学家们称作“双曲贴现”的现象。

3·Non-discounting methods ignore the time value of money, whereas discounting methods explicitly consider it.

非折现的方法未考虑货币时间价值，而折现方法明确考虑了这一点。

4·Discounting means to reduce all calculations to the present time or present worth at time zero.

贴现意味减少所有的计算值到当前值或零时的现值。