This is what Murphy' s Law tells us: if things can go wrong, they will go wrong.
这就是墨菲定律告诉我们的：如果事情有可能出错，那么它就一定会出错。
Your chances of being more carefully considered for the job can quickly go downhill just by saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.
如果你在错误的时间说了错误的话，在这份工作上你被仔细考虑的机会就会迅速减少。
Mendeleyev was bolder than Meyer and even assumed that if a measured atomic mass put an element in the wrong place in the table, the atomic mass was wrong.
门捷列夫比迈耶更大胆，他甚至认为，如果测量到的原子质量在表中把一个元素对应于错误的位置，这个原子质量就是错误的。
If someone makes a statement that you think is wrong, it's better to point it out by saying, "I thought otherwise but I might be wrong, let's look at the facts."
如果有人说了你认为是错的的话，最好通过这样的方式指出来：“我不是这么想的，但我可能是错的，让我们看看事实。”
Deep listening helps us to recognize the existence of wrong perceptions in the other person and wrong perceptions in us.
深深的倾听帮助我们了解另外一个人的心中存在错误的观点，以及我们心中存在的错误观点。
What happened all those centuries ago was wrong, and it is time to right that wrong.
这么多个世纪来发生的都是错的，是时候纠正这些错误了。
The little arrows were the wrong size, or in the wrong place, or the color was off.
小箭头不是尺寸不对就是在错误的位置，抑或是颜色不对。
But there is a simpler objection: the picture of relentless decline is wrong, or, to be accurate, half wrong.
然而，有个更简单的异议：那张持续下降的图错了，或者，准确地说是错了一半。
It is wrong - deadly wrong - to deny any of your fellow Americansthe right to vote in this country.
在我们的国家否定任何一个美国公民的投票权都是错误的-绝对错误的。
He noted that while freshwater is essential to humans and ecosystems, the rain is falling in all the wrong places, for all the wrong reasons.
他提到，淡水既是人类的根本也是生态系统的基础，但雨水正因所有错误的原因下到了错误的地方。
It's like saying that we may be looking for new life in the wrong places with the wrong methods.
这等于说，我们可能是一直在以错误的方法在错误的地方寻找新生命。
They were a species caught in the wrong place at the wrong time in a rapidly changing world.
在那个变化莫测的世界里，他们是在一个错误的时间选择了错误居留地的倒霉物种。
Yet there is an even greater risk: that the politicians now contemplating Wall Street's follies draw the wrong conclusions and take the wrong decisions, losing their confidence in markets altogether.
但还有一种更大的风险：正在思考华尔街蠢行的政客们，可能由于完全丧失对市场的信心，而得出错误的结论，并作出错误的决定。
If we have the wrong metrics, we will strive for the wrong things.
如果我们使用一个错误的衡量标准，那我们就是在努力做错误的事情。
It will cause problems when you load the wrong class or the wrong version of a class.
这样做，一旦加载了错误的类或错误版本的类，就会出问题。
The more accurate description for what business owners and sales professionals often run into is selling at the wrong time, with the wrong product or service, or with the wrong buying triggers.
企业家和销售专家经常提到的更准确的说法则是：在错误的时间，销售错误的产品或服务给错误的人才是罪魁祸首。
Optimists, in comparison to pessimists, were more likely to avoid fatal accidents, fatalities that can be described as being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
与悲观者相比，乐观者更可能避免致命的意外。可以认为死亡是在错误的时间站在了错误的地方。
As much as we wish it weren't true, wearing the wrong thing to work sends the wrong message to co-workers and superiors.
我们尽量希望这不是真的，但是上班时穿着错误，确实会给你的同事和老板送出错误的信息。
This means you draw the wrong conclusions, leading to wrong decisions.
这就意味这你会下错误的结论，导致做了错误的决定。
You're simply a human, who unfortunately was in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and indisputably running with the wrong crowd, I might add.
你不过是个人类，一个很不幸出现在错误的时间，错误的地点的人类。而且无可辩驳地，和一群错误的人待在了一起，我得加上这一句。
On the other hand, works with some taint—the wrong period, wrong colour, wrong size, wrong estimate—have a much tougher time finding buyers.
换言之，那些有点小毛病的作品，要么时机不对，要么色彩欠佳，要么大小不合适，要么估价错误，想得到买家的青睐可就难得多了。
I've admitted that I was wrong, and I wouldn't say sorry if I wasn't wrong.
我已经承认了这一点，如果我没有错我是不会说对不起的。
More pervasively, by repeatedly putting the wrong people into the wrong jobs, they waste both human and financial capital when those people don't perform.
更普遍的，不断的选错误人做错误的事，他们浪费人力和财务资本的同时，还毫无业绩。
Which is why I think they're teaching math wrong. They're doing it wrong in several ways.
这就是为什么我认为他们以错误的方式在教数学。
Commentators asked: what is wrong with New York City, what is wrong with these times, and what is wrong with the particular neighborhood?
评论员问：纽约市错在那里，这些岁月错在那里，这些特定的街坊又错在那里？
I've been told that whatever can go wrong when doing a speech will go wrong at some point in your career.
有人告诉我说，在一个人的职业生涯中当你做演讲时难免会出错。
Hundreds of people offered to join a project that wasn't ready to incorporate all of them, not to mention that many were just not the right people: wrong area of expertise, wrong mindset.
数以百计的热心人主动提出加入该项目，而实际上项目此时并没做好准备接纳所有这些人，更不用提这些人中多数并不是合适人选：专业技能不对口，心态不端正。
If you're committed to the wrong thing, you're going to become the wrong thing.
你要是奉献错了，你就成为了那个错误。
When you meet the wrong one at the wrong time, you are doomed to be ridiculous.
错的时间，遇见错的人，是一段荒唐。
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