Believe it or not, Edward J Murphy was a real person.

无论您相信与否，爱德华·墨菲的确是真人真事。

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Edward Murphy was an aerospace engineer for the US Army.

爱德华·墨菲是一名美军的航宇工程师。

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Murphy's law is usually thought to be named after Captain Edward Murphy, a development engineer with the United States Air Force in the middle of the last century.

墨菲定律由上世纪中叶一名美国空军工程师爱德华·墨菲提出。

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"We're very confident that what is happening is a normal reaction to a market system, " Edward Murphy, a senior manager for the American Petroleum Institute, told CNN on Friday.

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Edward Murphy, a research director at the American Petroleum Institute, points out that it costs foreign refiners no more than 4 cents a gallon to ship gasoline to the U.S. That means increased imports from Europe, which has seen declining demand for gasoline as motorists opt for diesel.

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Edward A. Murphy was an engineer who was involved in a 1949 Air Force project MX981 to test how much deceleration a person could withstand in a crash.

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