Though he acknowledges that engineering works can fail because the person who thought them up or engineered them simply got things wrong, in this book Dr. Petroski widens his view to consider the larger context in which such failures occur.

尽管彼得罗斯基博士承认，由于设计工程项目或实施项目的人会犯错，工程项目可能会失败，但他在这一本书中进一步拓宽了自己的观点，将更多可能导致失败的因素考虑了进来。

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Get a tattoo. If you don't mind the thought of needles and having a permanent graphic on your body, you may want to consider this one.

如果你不介意在自己身上纹上永久图案，你可能会考虑尝试下。

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"I thought I'd done particularly well at avoiding any contact with any of the dangerous critters that consider this part of the world their home," Southall wrote.

索撒尔在博客中写道：“我觉得自己已经很小心了，尽量避免与危险生物接触，这些生物都将这里当成了它们的家。 我根本没想到会这样，退一步讲，我也放松了警惕。

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And so with this example here, I thought I'd propose that we consider exactly how you'd go about tackling something like this.

有了这个例子，我想我们可以,考虑一下应该如何下手,解决这样的问题。

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"Very serious concerns have been raised by clinicians over the decision to shift this care to England and I urge Mr Jones to consider how ill-thought out and potentially dangerous this could be, " he said.

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Most of us consider moral judgment a higher order thought process, but this research shows that it can be tweaked by a weak magnetic field in a matter of minutes.

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