But the simple English translation -- much less precise, but it captures the gist of what Bernoulli had to say -- was this: The expected value of any of our actions -- that is, the goodness that we can count on getting -- is the product of two simple things: the odds that this action will allow us to gain something, and the value of that gain to us.
虽然翻译成英语后 没有原文那样精确， 但基本上诠释了伯努利的 主要思想——那就是: 我们任何行为的预估价值—— 或者说期望能得到的好处—— 是两样东西的乘积： 一个是成功的概率， 另一个是成功所带来的价值。