Setting yourself up before the fact so that you can win an argument after the fact, so that you didn't--you just got unlucky.

在事实发生之前先给自己预设一下结局,你就能在事实发生之后赢得一场争论，所以你并不是不能做到-，只是不走运而已。

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I got whooped in a game of frisbee against a bunch of grad students.

在和一群毕业生玩飞盘游戏的时候，我赢得了欢呼声。

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