但是迷信行为不仅在人类社会可见,动物也有。
Yet superstitious behavior can be recognized in many animals, not just humans.
迷信行为也不是免费的——种种仪式和避讳都有成本。
Superstitions are not free - there are rituals and avoidances cost.
通过选择交食(日食与月食的统称)作为研究对象,MrLepori优雅的绕过了证明迷信行为在股票市场上产生效应的两大障碍。
By choosing to study eclipses, Mr Lepori has neatly avoided the two largest obstacles to proving the effects of superstitious behaviour on stockmarkets.
达拉斯小牛队的所有者马克·库班(Mark Cuban)因为根据统计数据作出人事决策而知名,他困惑地提到他手下某些薪酬最高的员工的迷信行为。
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, known for basing personnel decisions on statistics, notes with bemusement the superstition of some of his highest-paid employees.
迷信可谓进化过程给人们带来的惊喜——相信某个特定行为可影响未来(实际并非如此)对有机系统并没有意义。
Superstition is an evolutionary surprise - it makes no sense for organisms to believe a specific action influences the future when it can't.
我们会觉得这种迷信的行为尽管可以给自己带来良好的感觉,但是荒谬的,没有理性依据。
We tend to think of this behaviour as irrational, despite feeling the pull of superstition ourselves (see: why rational people hate to tempt fate).
我们很多人有着迷信——好奇,没有任何合理意义的安心习惯——但有这种行为可能存在着潜在的原因。
Many of us have superstitions – odd, reassuring habits that make no rational sense – but there may be an underlying reason for such behaviour
10通过迷信的行为,我们的意思是一个人继续以不与必要相联系的特定方式做事情——只是因为以前那样做。
By superstitious behavior, we mean that a person continues to do something in a certain way that does not correlate with necessity — just because it worked that way before.
相比伏尔泰、孔多塞和笛卡尔这些利用理性去直面迷信和封建主义的法国启蒙思想者们,海峡对面的思想家,如布鲁克斯在书中所提及的伯克、休谟以及亚当·斯密,则认为信任理性是不明智的行为。
While Voltaire, Condorcet and Descartes used reason to confront superstition and feudalism, thinkers across the Channel – Brooks cites Burke, Hume and Adam Smith – thought it unwise to trust reason.
他们非常迷信,认为是神让他们经历那些事,而不是他们自己的行为造成的后果。
They were very superstitious. They thought gods caused things to happen to them, rather than being results of their own actions.
文化传统,如迷信,我们应该判断它时有着相当谨慎行为,要正确的和公平的着眼于这个问题。
Cultural tradition such as superstition we should judge it with considerably careful, by using correct and evenhanded sight on this issue.
迷信的思想和行为在许多文化背景下都存在,并已有千年的历史。
Superstitious beliefs and behaviors have being existing in many cultural backgrounds over thousand years of history, which of the original inhabitants originated from nature in primitive society.
迷信的思想和行为在许多文化背景下都存在,并已有千年的历史。
Superstitious beliefs and behaviors have being existing in many cultural backgrounds over thousand years of history, which of the original inhabitants originated from nature in primitive society.
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