The starring role those laws give to chance and uncertainty offended his instincts.

那些定律把机率与不确定当成主角，违反了他的直觉。

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When we let go of the present, which we have in our power, and look to the future, which depends on chance, we relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

当我们让当下流逝——我们所能掌握的，去朝向未来——依靠机会的，我们是用一个确定的换取一个不确定的。

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Often managers must make a best guess at that the future will be and try to leave as little as possible to chance, but since uncertainty is always there, risk accompanies decisions.

管理者常常必须对未来的情况作出最佳的猜测，使偶然性尽可能少地发生。但是因为总是在不确定的因素，所以决策往往伴随着风险。

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Adding to the confusion and uncertainty will be the chance that a more sweeping federal law might eventually be enacted, if the political winds change once more.

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This is the uncertainty about potential losses from subprime mortgages and the products based on them, and given that uncertainty the banks' own desire to hoard capital against the chance that they will have to strengthen their balance sheets.

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