Use common sense. It is better to be approximately right than to be precisely wrong.

不要忘记常识，模糊地正确比精确地错误要好。

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Language has powers that are entirely unpredictable, that can't be harnessed in precisely that deliberate way: by making a decision to take someone's words in the wrong way, or by telling a story to make a moral point, as the mother does.

语言的力量无可估量，绝不是单单使用一下那么简单：,而是通过假意遵从，以及勾起人性良知的方式表达的。

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But often precise advice is precisely wrong.

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Pensions often adjust their asset allocation at precisely the wrong time for the same reason.

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It would be a shame if the Tories renounced their tax-cutting instincts at precisely the wrong moment.

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