I thought: is this kid gave me a court disaster.

心想：是不是这小子又给我惹祸了。

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To go on such an expedition without enough supplies would be to court disaster.

没有足够的补给就进行这种远征是会闯祸的。

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In other people'eyes, maybe I'm a docile child. Never to court disaster, study is also well, a typical representative who is a lambkin.

在别人眼里，我可能是一个听话的好孩子，从不惹祸，学习也挺好，是一个让父母省心的乖孩子的典型代表。

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Ginsburg and Breyer, fearing disaster if the Court took these cases, tended to prefer not to address them.

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