"We have battled against the odds in a province that has become increasingly violent.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

So, when in doubt, if you're having some weird character issue, odds are you need to escape it in some way.

如果你有拿不准的字符,可能就要用到转义字符了。

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So I'm going to have to figure out what the odds are of that in doing this exercise.

因此在做类似的博弈前,我们需要先弄清楚收益是什么

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His reported position on additional troops puts him at odds with the top NATO and U.S.commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal., who has recommended which would boost the U.S.commitment in the country to more than 100,000.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

But whatever your reason for being here this is in fact our introduction to Computer Science; and contrary to what you might have heard or seen or perceived in high school, odds are computer science is not quite what you imagined it to be.

但是不管你们来这儿的原因是什么,这门课介绍的都是计算机科学,可能与你们平时听到的看到的,或者在高中时所想象的恰好相反,计算机技术的优势完全不是你想象的那样。

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Every sentence is a predication, and if every sentence is a predication, it also has the structure of a metaphor; and the metaphor in a sentence and the predication in a sentence are always going to be at odds.

每句话都是一句声明，而如果每句话都是一句声明得话，它同样也有隐喻的结构，而一个句子中的隐喻,和句子中的声明总会有分歧。

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So Richard's first exertion of agency in this book is through the agency of words, in this case in asserting an interpretation of the words at odds with their intended meaning.

这里理查在书中头一次借助语言,表达自己的影响，即使与其所理解的意思,大相径庭。

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Anytime you find yourself in this pattern, odds are, what you're doing is a candidate for being factored out, hierarchal decompositions is the buzzword you'd see in the textbooks if you're following along with any of them, but it's really just the idea of taking out common code and putting it into just one place.

任何时候你发现你处于这种模式中，可能，你所做的东西是可以提取改进的，体系分解是一个你在课本中看到的流行词,如果你遵循其中一个,这个实际上是一个把相同的代码,放到一个地方的思想。

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If history is any indication 72% of the people ; in the theater have no prior programming experience; despite what you may think and despite the fact that some of you may very well be thinking, odds are I know the least about computers than anyone in here, I'm actually a little scared of my computer.

以往的经验表明,大讲堂里72％的人没有任何编程经验;,不管你们怎么想,有些人可能现在就在考虑了，奇怪的是比起在座的各位，我最不了解计算机，我甚至有点怕我的电脑。

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