If Liang Zhu, Beijing Opera or Swan Lake Ballet ever perished from the earth, it would be a tragedy of immeasurable proportions.

如果京剧、功夫或天鹅湖从地球上消失，那将是不可估量的悲剧。

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In 2007, he published the Black Swan: the Impact of the Highly Improbable, which argues that we should never ignore the possibility or importance of rare, unpredictable events.

在2007年，他出版了《黑天鹅：高度意外性事件的影响》，主张人们不应该忽略罕见和不可预测事件的可能性和重要性。

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As noted in the original piece, it seems unlikely that many women would see the troubled fictional ballerinas in Black Swan as people they idolize or aspire to be like.

在原始的文章中写到，许多女性不大可能会将《黑天鹅》中陷困境的芭蕾舞演员当成是他们平时所崇拜或者欣赏的偶像的样子。

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At first,swan song meant the last work of a poet, musician or writer.

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What the swan thinks or feels or intends doesn't matter.

天鹅的想法感受或意图,并不十分重要。

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(No Transcripts,wait...) At the Johannesburg summit, Swan pledged to focus his efforts on protecting Antarctica from mineral or oil exploitation when treaty obligations are renewed in 2041.

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Now I hear and you hear that this is, well, kind of dismissed: This is a terrible thing that happens every once, every hundred years--or it's a Black Swan or Fat Tail.

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Almost every institution said they are or will soon be offering a product to guard against black swan events or tail risk.

FORBES: Wall Street's Black Swan Copycats

So we know they had venison, and they likely had some kind of water fowl goose, duck, swan or eagle. (Best not to think about those last two.) The fowl also could have been wild turkey, but if so, it was a very distant relative of that bird in the supermarket case today.

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