按照迷信的说法，摔碎镜子会带来噩运。
According to superstition, breaking a mirror brings bad luck.
在你比赛前，你有什么迷信的东西吗？
在室内撑开伞被认为会带来厄运，虽然现在还不清楚这个迷信的起源。
Opening an umbrella indoors is supposed to bring bad luck, though the origins of this belief are murky.
有些迷信的交易员甚至抵制这一策略的名字：引起“混沌”就是拿命运冒险。
Some of Bear Stearns's more superstitious traders even objected to the strategy's name: They were tempting fate by invoking chaos.
有一种迷信的说法，在睡觉前吃甜食不会给你带来甜蜜的梦，相反，你会做噩梦。
There is a superstition that claims eating sweets before bedtime doesn't give you sweet dreams, it gives you nightmares.
我们人类是非常迷信的生物，相信13号的星期五代表厄运，而捡到一分钱则代表将有好运。
We humans are a superstitious lot, believing that Friday the 13th is bad luck and finding a penny is good luck.
但是公众舆论是如此强大地支持早婚，以至于你不敢反对它，所以你从未坦诚地质询过这种迷信的做法。
But public opinion is so strongly in favour of early marriage that you dare not go against it and so you never honestly inquire into this superstition.
像有些心中有所期待的人一样，我也有一种迷信的想法，认为只要我出去一会儿，回来时就会看到回信。
Then, with the superstition of those who wait, I thought that if I went out for a while, I should find an answer when I got back.
直到后来我才意识到那些橡木椅子很像巴尔的摩火车站的椅子，我迷信的自我保护潜意识阻止我去坐在那些橡木椅子上。
Only later did I realise that the wooden seats were near replicas of those in Baltimore and that my protective, very superstitious subconscious had forbidden me from sitting there.
这可能是因为迷信给我们一种感觉——可以在这个危机四伏，变化莫测的世界里掌控好自己。
This may be because superstitions allow us the illusion of control in what is a scary, random world.
和万圣节有关的迷信还有很多。
There are many other superstitions associated with Halloween.
不是我迷信，星座运势有时还是很准的。
I'm not superstitious. The horoscope sometimes turns out to be accurate.
但某些数字迷信还是被扩大化，特别是在涉及利润的时候。
And yet some numerical superstitions do spread, especially when profits are involved.
此类迷信通常都是无害的，但如果变得耗时太长，就可能会影响效率。
Such superstitions are typically harmless, but they could slow down a juggle, if they became too time-consuming.
去年冬天，印度的一则新闻说明人们究竟可以迷信到何种程度。
A report from India last winter shows just how far people will go in following superstitious beliefs.
迷信是人们思想的一大桎梏。
抛开美丑不说，球员们的发型有时更多地是出于迷信考虑而非时尚。
Aesthetics aside, footballers' hair is sometimes motivated more by superstition than fashion.
智利矿工以迷信著称，而挖掘工作正好进行了33天，这对等在地面上的家属来说是个吉兆。
Chilean miners are famously superstitious and, for the families waiting on the surface, it seemed like a good omen that it had taken exactly 33 days to dig the shaft.
或者，和许多迷信说法同出一辙，人们会相信新手的好运是由于验证性偏差。
Or, like many superstitions, a belief in beginner's luck might arise because of confirmation bias.
这次日食为我们提供了反对迷信、提高意识破除一些人和电子媒体灌输恐惧心理的重要机会。
The eclipse provides a crucial opportunity to fight superstitions by raising awareness to remove the fears foisted by some people and electronic media.
苹果，坚果和蜡烛是万圣节的许多迷信活动中的重要物品。
Apples, nuts and candles figured prominently in many of the superstitions practised at Halloween.
迷信：孔雀羽毛应该永远不带上舞台，不能作为服装元素，道具或者布景的一部分，否则混乱将接踵而来。
Superstition: Peacock Feathers should never be brought on stage, either as a costume element, prop or part of a set as chaos will ensue.
迷信与数字有关；甚至那些古希腊人也相信所有的数字及其倍数都具有神秘的意义。
There are superstitions attached to numbers; even those ancient Greeks believed that all numbers and their multiples had some mystical significance.
以语言为例：18世纪的思想家认为迷信和过去的一些错误已经成为语言的烙印。
Take language: many 18th-century thinkers believed that superstitions and past errors were imprinted in words.
迷信：在上或者下舞台的时候吹口哨是不吉利的，有人(不总是吹口哨的人)会被炒鱿鱼。
Superstition: it is considered bad luck to whistle on or off stage, as someone (not always the whistler) will be fired.
迷信：在上或者下舞台的时候吹口哨是不吉利的，有人(不总是吹口哨的人)会被炒鱿鱼。
Superstition: it is considered bad luck to whistle on or off stage, as someone (not always the whistler) will be fired.
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