Not fate at work, just the wrong time.

不是缘分在作祟、只是时间不对。

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You know that this is not fate, but I also rushed.

明知道这不是缘分但是我还奋不顾身。

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It would mirror the fate of athletics, in which disproportionate energies and resources—not least medical ones, like illegal steroids—are now invested to shave records by milliseconds.

这将反映出田径运动员的命运，如今，为了把记录缩短几毫秒，运动员们投入了过多的精力和资源，尤其是非法使用类固醇等医疗方面的资源。

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"Dear Beatrice," he said, "our fate is not so terrible."

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May no fate willfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away not to return.

别来个命运之神，故意曲解我,只成全我愿望的一半，把我卷了走。

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I was watching a poker game once on TV and somebody who lost said, and I quote, "They beat me like an ugly stepchild" and the fate of the ugly stepchild is, in fact, not a very good fate but this is not a good study.

有一次我看电视扑克比赛，一个输的人说，我引用他的话”他们把我像丑陋的继子女一样揍了“,丑陋的继子女的命运，确实不是好命运，但这个研究也不是好研究。

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It can only be a short journey (if that's not tempting fate) to his own TV series.

BBC: I'm on a train: the Welsh secretary tweets home

It is the crisis that worries them, not the fate of the euro itself, or the exact mechanisms taken to solve it.

BBC: Americans wade in on Euro crisis

It's not my fate or luckiness, but my boldness.

WSJ: Hong Kong's Real-Estate Boom Conjures a Scary Development