Yet traveling back to smog-bound Beijing, past industrial factories, high-rise apartment blocks under construction,shopping malls and the ever growing number of cars, the future once more looks uncertain.

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Similarly, divination. Divination is an attempt to discern the future that, once again, heads right to the source of power.

类似的还有占卜术，占卜是一种试图看清未来的法术,它的终极目标，也是神力的源头。

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Once you know those, you can find the position of the object at all future times.

只要知道了这些,你就能知道物体在任意时刻的位置

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When 50 signed to Interscope, it was with the backing of both Dr. Dre and Eminem, who were at that time the most influential musicians in rap music. (Having once been the future themselves, they thought they could predict it.) "Wanksta, " from the No Mercy, No Fear mixtape, ended up on the 8 Mile soundtrack, and 50 was off to the races.

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