If you think you can change your life in a clever way, the way an advertiser can get you to buy an air freshener, you're probably wrong.

如果你认为你可以用一种聪明的方式改变你的生活，就像广告商可以让你买空气清新剂那样，你可能就错了。

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His mother doesn't allow him to get in with the wrong crowd of boys.

他母亲不让他与一群坏孩子交往。

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In the wrong circumstances it will get you fired.

而在不对的场合下你就难以如愿以偿。

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When things go wrong in a business, an employer may get angry.

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we'll send these questions to your TA so any time you get a clicker question wrong and you're confused, bring it up in the next recitation section and you'll be able to discuss it there.

交给你们的助教，所以任何时候,如果你们,答错了课堂问题，或者对它有疑问的话,可以在下次的,讨论课上讨论。

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It's a long-term plan, which can go wrong if you get sick and die in your early 20s.

这是长期的计划，若你在二十几岁生病死去它就会出错。

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What do pollsters and generals who get things wrong have in common?

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And the security forces, often under-funded, get things wrong: in February, the Philippines announced with great fanfare the detention of a terrorist holding no fewer than 104 passports, only to discover that he was a travel agent collecting visas for Muslim pilgrims.

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But although regulators and insurers both say they are aware of the risks and are taking steps to mitigate them mainly by setting aside pools of extra capital in case they get their sums wrong divining what the world will look like in 40 years' time must be more art than science.

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