What they knew was, as judged by our standards, very little in amount.

按照我们的标准， 他们所知道的很少。

These principles took me from being a very ordinary middle-class kid from Long Island to becoming very successful as judged by conventional measures.

这些原理把我从一个长岛的中产阶级的普通孩子变成了普遍意义上的非常成功的人。