A quirk of human psychology could help to explain these persistent underestimates.
人类心理学上的某种偏好有助于解释这一习惯性低估。
"My hunch on the Ditka quote is that it comes from a quirk of the King James translation," Wells says.
威尔斯说：“我觉得迪斯卡的引文源于钦定译版的一个怪癖。”
Yet thanks to a quirk of law, talk of default is not confined to the European side of the Atlantic.
但是，现在由于法律上的奇怪之处，对欠债不还的讨论也不仅仅局限在大西洋的欧洲一边了。
A quirk of light causes a strange luminescence in its dark recesses, and as we emerge someone tolls the bell.
一束奇异的光线照亮了黑暗的山洞，我们进入到山洞里时有人敲响了钟声。
To some degree these statistics are a quirk of the calendar, based on when the 10-year period starts and finishes.
这些统计数据在一定程度上存在因为时间计算的问题而产生的失真，这要看“十年”的起止时间怎么算。
"That's very important," says McKay. "What we see on Earth is not a quirk of Earth biology but a universal principle."
那是很重要的麦凯说我们在地球上看到的不是地球的生物怪癖，而是宇宙原理。
Experts say the rare phenomenon is just a quirk of nature and can occur if the chicken receives a shock during egg production.
农业专家们也表示，这样罕见的情况实则是大自然的一种变异，如果母鸡在生蛋时受到惊吓，就可能产下异常的鸡蛋。
Suppose you discover that there is a quirk with the payroll system, where a new employee cannot be added until an office space is assigned.
假设您发现工资单系统存在一个漏洞，在分配办公空间之前将无法添加新员工。
In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
在体育比赛中，如果一个人越是表现出一副正常的样子就越有作弊的倾向，我相信这是人的天性中的怪癖。
Its place today as the most useful language to know out of 6,000 is a quirk, due largely to Western European geography and the technological innovation it encouraged.
其在今天能够从6000多种语言中脱颖而出成为最实用的语言堪称奇迹，而这主要归因于西欧的地理位置和其鼓励的技术创新。
A quirk of nature means that their island consists of some of the world's purest phosphate - the legacy of millions of years of sea bird droppings reacting with an uplifted coral.
在大自然巧妙的安排下，他们的岛屿遍地都是全世界最精纯的磷肥-是几百万年来海鸟的粪便与隆起的珊瑚起了化学作用所形成的。
It's hard to say, but one possibility is that these European currencies get a minor lift over the medium-term due to a quirk related to how Asian central Banks manage their foreign-exchange reserves.
很难说，不过有一种可能是中期内这两种欧洲货币会得到小幅提振，原因是亚洲各国央行在管理本国外汇储备上的怪异做法。
By a tantalizing quirk of fate, the pair have been drawn to meet in the first round of the championship.
由于命运的捉弄，这对选手被抽中在锦标赛的第一轮相遇。
I make no excuses for myself, nor have I ever, and by the end of my story, I hope you'll view this quirk of my character with a forgiving eye.
我不给自己找任何借口，也从没找过，在我的故事结束前，希望你能宽容的看待我这个怪癖。
Otherwise, this may simply be a charming quirk (maybe not so charming to your neighbor).
要不然的话，这就可能只是一种有趣的个性（或许对你的邻居来说不是那么有趣）。
Yet with technology, perhaps we can return this funny quirk-of-behavior to it’s rightful place as a communicator.
不过利用科技，也许我们能够令这种有趣的行为习惯作为一种信息传递装置而回到它合适的位置。
In more than 20 years of research, she's discovered that our mindset is not a minor personality quirk.
经过20多年的研究，德韦克认为心态并不是一个微不足道的性格特征。
Despite the underlying inflation risks, a statistical quirk may push core inflation down in the coming months.
尽管有着潜在的通胀风险，一个统计特性可能降低将来几个月的核心通胀率。
Scientists have discovered a biological quirk in bottlenose dolphins that could lead to a treatment for late-onset diabetes in humans.
科学家发现，宽吻海豚有一种奇特的生物特性，该发现也许会为人类带来一种治疗迟发性糖尿病的新方法。
In a revealing quirk of the English language, to ask the question is to level an accusation at the same time.
在英语里某个明显的讽语，在设问之时就提出了指责。
Numerologists are saying that the row of "perfect tens" symbolizes not just a once in a 100 years quirk of the calendar, but a "powerful moment of rebirth".
数理逻辑学家宣称，“完美十字”的排列不仅象征着日历中百年一遇的巧合，也是“再生的强大时刻”。
The cancer vaccines rely on a biological quirk of follicular B-cell lymphoma, which is a type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
滤泡性B细胞淋巴瘤是一种非霍奇金淋巴瘤，肿瘤疫苗是治疗是根据肿瘤细胞的生物学特殊性。
By a strange quirk of fate, the same players who were on target in the abandoned match were again on the scoresheet this time around.
命运真是奇怪，在被取消的那场比赛中进球的那个球员在这次比赛中再次进球。
The very quirk of a jet-black eyebrow could enforce obedience.
一对乌黑的浓眉似有魔力，能让他人臣服。
Furthermore, I have come to the point of view that mind - i. e., conscious awareness of the world-is not a meaningless and incidental quirk of nature, but an absolutely fundamental facet of reality.
另外，我还得到了这么一个观点：心灵(就是说，对世界的有意识的知觉)不是自然的一件没有意义的、可有可无的凑巧之事，而绝对是现实的一个具有根本意义的侧面。
Furthermore, I have come to the point of view that mind - i. e., conscious awareness of the world-is not a meaningless and incidental quirk of nature, but an absolutely fundamental facet of reality.
另外，我还得到了这么一个观点：心灵(就是说，对世界的有意识的知觉)不是自然的一件没有意义的、可有可无的凑巧之事，而绝对是现实的一个具有根本意义的侧面。
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