If you graph the frequency of various possible results, it's possible to see a pattern of peaks at random-looking series and valleys at the ones that chance would seem to disfavor.

如果用图表画出不同可能性结果的频率，你可能会看到一种模式，貌似随机的序列处于峰值，那些碰巧看上去不太受人喜欢的序列位于谷底。

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When you look at the data, however, it is hard to argue that the markets have been attacking at random.

但是当你查看数据时，就会发现那些被攻击的市场并不是被随意选中的。

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McLendon then drove off in his Mitsubishi car, killed at least three others seemingly at random and injured three police officers who attempted to halt the violence.

接着，迈克伦登开着他的三菱汽车，沿途随意开枪，又打死了至少三名路人，并打伤了三名前来阻止他的警察。

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They found that forty-one percent of the profiles chosen at random included information about alcohol or drug use.

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I made a ton of random things when I was at Harvard and most of them no one ever saw.

我在哈佛写了许多程序,很多都没人见过。

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When we looked at the random walk series I think the representativeness heuristic played a role in there as well.

当我们观察随机漫步序列时,我认为代表性原则偏误,也起了一定作用

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Roberto Sol Cabrera, a Mexican citizen, was stopped at a random check at Mexico City's international airport after arriving from Lima.

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Police say the miners had been protesting against poor working conditions at the Collum mine on Friday when the managers opened fire at random.

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Ten winners were chosen at random from all of the entries using a random number generator.

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