The similes enable us to see something about the story that the rest of the poem doesn't enable us to see.

这些明喻使得我们能够深入了解一些,诗歌的剩余部分所不能让我们预见的事情。

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Well, that matters to us, but the trouble is, without predictability you don't know where to put the peak.

那对我们很重要，但问题是，没可预见性你就不知道巅峰放在哪点。

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He seems, in this way, to anticipate what we might think of as the modern welfare state that public assistance be provided, and the poor, not simply depend on the private goodwill of the others.

如此看来,霍布斯已经预见到了,我们现代社会国家福利制度的出现，穷人不只依靠个人的善意施舍度日,更多的是求助于国家提供的福利保障。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And this is a little different from what happened ten or so years ago, but the so-called Y2K problem was essentially the result of programmers not really having the foresight to realize, "Maybe we shouldn't use so few bits or so few digits to represent a year because eventually this will be a problem."

这个跟10年前发生的事情有点不一样,那个所谓的“Y2K“问题,本质上的结果是,程序员没有真实地预见和认识到，“可能我们没必要用到这些位数或数字,来表示一年，但是最终这个将会,是个问题“

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Because you don't know how much more time you've got-- You can make a guess based on statistics, but as we saw, there's wild unpredictability.

因为你不知道你剩下多少时间-,你可以根据数据进行猜测，但是我们都知道，不可预见性太难把握。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Now, that being the case, we have to worry then that because of the unpredictability of death that our lives may not have the ideal shape.

既然是这样，那么我们会变得担心起来,由于存在死亡的不可预见性,我们的生命线可能不会是理想的形状。

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In our world, not only do we have variability, we've got unpredictability.

在我们的世界不仅有可变性，还有不可预见性。

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