Whatever it was, it has become a good example of how a little mistake can trap you in a more serious moral corner.

不管它是什么，它已经成为一个很好的例子，说明一个小小的错误会使你陷入一个更严重的道德困境。

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You can never abase a person for a little mistake.

你永远不可以因为一个小小的错误而去贬低一个人的人格。

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He made a little mistake to be sure; but it is to the credit of his modesty.

他实在也有些不是，不过那都是因为他太谦虚。

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What this entails is just trying to stop controlling things, but I also mistake it a little bit because by stopping controlling things, you're going to control it more.

必须的是,试着放手不去控制事物，但这也是个悖论,因为想不控制事物，反而会加强控制。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Now the part about his life in Chicago was I'm going to keep doing this, call it the novel versus the autobiography, and I'll explain why I make that mistake a little later--it was cut from the autobiography.

他在芝加哥的生活那部分,我会一直把这书叫做小说，而不是自传,我之后会解释为什么犯这样的错误,这书是从自传的一部分。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

You can very quickly drive yourself nuts by sitting down, thinking, oh, I can write this program, no sweat, and then you write it and then there's a tiny little mistake here, but then there's a tiny little mistake here and here, and all of these stupid little things cascade until you try running your program, and the thing just doesn't work.

如果你只是仅仅干坐着，不费吹灰之力，凭空幻想着我可以把这个项目搞定，你会想地发疯的，也许你会写出一点东西出来，可能会有一点点错误,紧接着这或那又出现一点小错误，这些小错误一点一点地堆积了起来,直到你开始运行你整个项目，你会发现这堆东西根本就不工作。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I'm a bit disappointed we conceded one, we made a little mistake there.

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