Some of Bear Stearns's more superstitious traders even objected to the strategy's name: They were tempting fate by invoking chaos.

有些迷信的交易员甚至抵制这一策略的名字：引起“混沌”就是拿命运冒险。

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BURLINGAME, CALIF. -- Often in business and in life, an important conversation, a made or missed connection or even an intrusion of pure fate redirects our thinking and actions for years afterward.

在商界和人生中，一次重要的交谈，一次联系或一次错过，亦或是纯粹命运的一桩唐突侵扰，都会改变我们此后岁月中的所思所行。

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No big foreign acquisition has failed so far-even though, according to consultants at McKinsey, that is the fate of 60-70% of cross-border takeovers.

至今，还没有海外收购的失败案例——可即使如此，根据麦肯锡顾问的意见，失败是60%到70%海外收购案的命运。

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It feels unsafe to us to put our fate (even just our professional fate) in the hands of someone who makes superficial, biased, or self-promoting judgments.

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But they also know that their best chance of averting an even worse fate for them lies in enacting something like the cuts that Mr Brown has proposed, and then persuading voters to extend the taxes.

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