payoffs

基本解释

We asked her about optimism’s principles and payoffs.
我们向她询问了乐观的原则和其结果。
The payoffs for exchange and assistance programs is often measured in decades, not weeks or months.
交流与援助项目的回报通常以数十年为单位，而不是几星期或几个月。
But when the payoffs changed, it began to copy what others were doing, looking for a more effective new strategy.
而当报酬变了，就转而开始模仿别人的做法，找出一个更有效的新策略。

We're going to assume that everybody knows the possible strategies everyone else could choose and everyone knows everyone else's payoffs.
我们假设,每个人都知道其他人可能选择的策略,每个人都知道其他人的收益
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So again, I'm not claiming these are the only other possible payoffs, but just another possibility to look at.
重申一下,我没说只有这几种可能的收益,这只是其中的一种可能罢了
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You chose Alpha; I'm assuming these were roughly your payoffs, more or less, you were caring about your grades.
你选择的是α,我想这差不多就是你的收益了吧,你关注自己的成绩
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The ability to generate asymmetric return payoffs is enhanced when the market is volatile.
FORBES: Making Volatility Work For You

The payoff from an action is the advantage or benefit that you get from it.
A payoff is a payment made to someone, often secretly or illegally, so that they will not cause trouble.
A payoff is a large payment made to someone by their employer when the person has been forced to leave their job.

效用
If each player in a game can not raise his payoff by changing his strategies unilaterally (a Nash equilibrium is found), then the game is solved. At this point, the game maximizes its utility.
如果在一次博弈中出现了这样一种情况:每一个弈者都无法通过单方面改变自己的策略而提高效用,那么,这一博弈就获得了解,也就是说达到了一种“纳什均衡”的效果,整个博弈也就获得了最大化的效用。