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有才华不如有好运气？科学家近日发现，想致富，靠运气。难怪古今中外有那么多怀才不遇的人，原来才华和物质意义上的成功并没有关联。研究指出，最富有的人往往是那些资质平凡但很幸运的人。

If you're wondering why your peers seem to be prospering way more than you are, it might not be because they're better at their jobs: it's probably just down to random chance, according to a new computer model of wealth simulation.

如果你奇怪你的同龄人为什么比你混得更好，这也许并不是因为他们更能干，而很可能只是因为他们运气好。这是电脑上的财富模拟模型计算出的最新结果。

Charting a working lifespan of 40 years, the detailed computer simulation accurately reproduced the wealth distribution model of the real world, but found that those at the top of the money pile were the luckiest, not the most talented.

借助于这一详细的模拟算法，电脑准确再现了40年间现实世界的财富分布模式，但却发现，拥有最多财富的是最幸运的那些人，而不是最有才华的那些人。

The aim of the study from researchers at the University of Catania in Italy is not to make you despair at the futility of life, but to understand the role that chance plays in the way we invest our time and resources in multiple fields.

意大利卡塔尼亚大学的研究人员开展的这项研究，目的不是要让你哀叹人生的徒劳，而在于让你理解我们在各个领域投入时间和资源时运气所发挥的作用。