If hiring that worker brings in more marginal revenue than marginal cost, then, congratulations!

如果雇佣工人带来的边际收益大边际成本，那么恭喜！

The Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns applies to all sorts of tasks.

边际收益递减法则适用各种场合。

Professional athletes spend thousands of dollars and hours of training in search of marginal gains.

职业运动员花费数千美元和数小时的训练寻求的只是边际收益。

It's where marginal revenue equals marginal cost, right?

就是边际收益等边际成本，对吗？

Trouble is I haven't drawn the marginal revenue curve yet.

问题是我还没有画出边际收益曲线。

The marginal benefit, in turn, depends on how many units a person already has.

边际收益反过来又取决一个人已经拥有多少单位。

Right, you can't actually see the marginal revenue here.

是的，你实际上在这里看不到边际收益。

And a lot of improvements are just marginal gains, doing something slightly better than you've done it before.

很多改进只是边际收益，做的你以前做的稍微好一点。

If the answer isn't backward induction it's probably marginal revenue equals marginal cost right?

如果答案不是逆向归纳法，那么边际收益可能等边际成本，对吗？

So here's the marginal revenue curve roughly speaking, should be twice as steep.

因此，粗略地说，这里的边际收益曲线应该是原来的两倍。

This is residual marginal revenue and here's what you used to produce.

这是剩余边际收益，这是您过去生产的。

This was marginal revenue hitting marginal cost.

这就是边际收益撞击边际成本。

However, this could affect small oil producing companies in the U.S. These companies feel the effects of falling prices more sharply on their profit margin.

然而，这会影响美国的小型石油生产司。价格下降给这些司带来的边际收益影响更加严重。

When deciding how safely to drive, rational people compare, perhaps unconsciously, the marginal benefit from safer driving to the marginal cost.

在决定如何安全驾驶时，理性的人会将更安全驾驶的边际收益与边际成本进行较，或许在不知不觉中。

That's why a lot of cyclists are looking for marginal gains that can be in aerodynamics, that can be in supplements, that can be in training, because all those marginal gains added up do make a difference.

这就是为什么很多骑自行车的人都在寻找空气动力方面的边际收益——可以通过补充剂，也可以通过训练，因为所有这些边际收益加起来确实会产生影响。

Point 23, always have a second ice cream if you want it. Marginal gains are important, but marginal happiness gains are equally as important. Don't settle for just one ice cream if you really feel like a second.

第 23 点，如果你想要，一定要吃第二个冰淇淋。边际收益很重要，但边际幸福收益同样重要。如果你真的想吃第二个，不要满足只吃一个冰淇淋。

KEVIN SCOTT: I think the other interesting thing here is, again, I do have a point of view about whether or not we're reaching the point of diminishing marginal returns on model power.

凯文·斯科特：我认为这里另一件有趣的是，我确实有一个观点，即我们是否正在达到模型功率边际收益递减的点。

How is the above definition of the marginal efficiency of capital related to common usage? The Marginal Productivity or Yield or Efficiency or Utility of Capital are familiar terms which we have all frequently used.

上述资本边际效率的定义与共同使用有何关系？资本的边际生产力或收益率或效率或效用是我们都经常使用的熟悉术语。

I like to just take a walk from one end to the other, to get a sense of what you feel like eating first because at an all-you-can-eat buffet, you have diminishing marginal returns - right?

我喜欢从一端走到另一端，感受一下你想先吃什么，因为在自助餐中，你的边际收益递减 - 对吗？