May no fate willfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away not to return.

别来个命运之神，故意曲解我,只成全我愿望的一半，把我卷了走。

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I can tell your fortune if you give me twenty dollars.

如果你给我20美金，我就可以透露你的命运。

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In other words, you might think of it as a kind of artificial, processed, bland, easily consumable version of fate. I really mean that. One of the funny things about that debt to Finnegans Wake is, Finnegans Wake as a book of puns is unreadable.

也就是说，你可能会把它当做一种人为的，处理过的，乏味的，容易消耗的命运，我正是此意,关于《芬尼根守灵夜》中一个有趣的事是,它作为一本充满双关语的书是不值得一读的。

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I was watching a poker game once on TV and somebody who lost said, and I quote, "They beat me like an ugly stepchild" and the fate of the ugly stepchild is, in fact, not a very good fate but this is not a good study.

有一次我看电视扑克比赛，一个输的人说，我引用他的话”他们把我像丑陋的继子女一样揍了“,丑陋的继子女的命运，确实不是好命运，但这个研究也不是好研究。

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