Today, we realize, perhaps more than ever, that the world of human activity also has its own "Butterfly Effect" — for better or for worse.

今天，我们认识到，或许比以往任何时候都认识到，人类活动世界也有自己的“蝴蝶效应”，是好是歹，都要面对。

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As Kevin Starr points out in his history of the state, California has long been "one of the prisms through which the American people, for better and for worse, could glimpse their future".

正如凯文·斯塔在他为加州撰写的历史中所指出的，长期以来，加州一直像一个棱镜，“通过它，美国人可以窥见自己的未来，不管是好的还是坏的。”

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But in the past few weeks three newish factors have coalesced to create a set of circumstances that could shake the country up: for better, if matters are handled carefully, or for much worse.

但是过去几周里三个新的因素联手创造了一些可能改变这个国家的新情况：如果小心行事则这是些好消息，否则就会比现在还要糟糕得多。

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And for better or for worse we've done a lot of damage over the past few years for this stuff.

过去的几年，无论好坏,我们都已经对这个东西造成很大的损坏了。

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Or my life would've gone better for this period of ten years, but then it would've become worse.

或者说我的生活在这十年本来可以更好，然后它会变得糟糕。

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Politics, for him, is less a matter of prudential decisions of better and worse, than it is, you might say, an existential decision of choosing life or death.

对他来说，政治，不是关于谨慎的决定,不管是好还是坏，不如说是，一个选择生或死的必然决定。

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So just as in the United States when we went through a period of kind of social upheaval in the 1960's, students took the lead throughout the country - for better of for worse - the Islamic revolution in Iran was steered in large part by student groups at these various campuses.

NPR: Iran Marks Revolution Anniversary

For better or worse much worse for much of the year it's the studios that provide most of the stuff that fills the multiplex maw, and that shapes most moviegoers' taste.

WSJ: Embracing the Concise Power of Movies

The criminal justice system has come to be regarded, for better of worse, as the mechanism for sorting out our social angst as well as catching Burglar Bill.

BBC: What do we value about the police?