当然，任何事情在完成之前都是不确定的。

Of course, nothing is definite until it's done.

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记住坎特定律：任何事情在中途似乎都是失败的。

Remember Kanter's Law: Everything can look like a failure in the middle.

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因此尽管公众还未看到任何事情在发生，但进程一直在不断前进！

So even when the public can’t see anything happening, there is always something going on!

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and most, perhaps, obviously-- if you're just spending your life floating in the scientist's lab, you're not actually accomplishing anything.

显而易见-,如果你只是漂浮在科学实验室里，你实际上没有完成任何事情。

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It's instead outside of them and, by convention, at the top of the file so that I can access it anywhere, whether or not this is a good thing, remains to be seen.

它在函数的外面，按照惯例，在文件的顶端，所以我可以在任何地方使用它,不管这是不是好事情，拭目以待。

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Against that, I suppose, you've got pessimists-- pessimists who say, " "No, no. Although life perhaps has some good things, " the overall grand balance " is negative for everybody in every circumstance.

与之相反还有悲观主义者-,悲观主义者会说，“不，也许生活有些美好的事情，“但总体的结果,“在任何情况下对任何人都是负数。

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