It seems to be a short step from believing that every event has a cause to believing that every disaster is our fault.

从相信每件事都有原因，到相信每一场灾难都是我们的错，似乎只有一步之遥。

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We should analyze the cause and effect of this event.

我们应该分析这场事变的因果。

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The cause of an event -- event causality -- is an important factor in understanding that event.

事件的原因（事件因果关系）是理解该事件的重要因素。

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When you've got a view about cause and effect that works this way-- for everything that happens, there's some earlier thing that caused it to happen such that given that earlier cause, the event had to follow-- that's a deterministic picture.

当你认为因和果,是以这种方式互相作用的,对于所发生的一切,总有些事先发生,然后它们导致这些事发生,于是一旦给定了前因,这些后果必定会接着发生,这是一个决定论的图景

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The much smaller size of the impactor suggests the impact didn't cause a global event.

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Thus, by deliberately disrupting all redundant safety systems, saboteurs can cause a severe event that would have had only a very low probability of occurrence if left to chance.

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