No one could have predicted the final outcome.

谁也没有预想到最终结果会是这样。

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The outcome was a lot worse than the 3.4% rate that City economists had predicted.

这一结果比经济学家比经济学家预测的3.4%要糟糕得多。

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Paul -- an octopus at the Sea Life public aquarium in Oberhausen, western Germany -- has so far correctly predicted the outcome of each of Germany's World Cup matches.

生活在西德奥本哈森海洋生命水族馆的章鱼哥保罗现在俨然全球炙手可热的明星，因为他已经正确地预测了世界杯几乎所有比赛！

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He added that AS-levels alone correctly predicted the outcome slightly less frequently in 68.4% of cases.

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Sam Wang of the Princeton Election Consortium correctly predicted the outcome in 49 states.

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Ironically, Bill Gates himself predicted this outcome in 1991, back when the courts had only begun to legalize software patents.

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