If you expect to fail, you will fail. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

你如果预期失败，就会失败。这是一种自我应验的预测。

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Fear of failure can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

害怕失败可能真会导致失败。

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And maybe that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

这可能成为一个自我实现的预言。

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But he will warn that American downplaying international efforts could prove a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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And how they create through their beliefs ? the self-fulfilling prophecy when it comes to their students?

他们怎样通过自己的信念,创造出自我实现的预言，来影响学生？

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And that,very often,becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

那很可能会成为一个自我实现的预言。

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What makes these two different is that their alienation turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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"The only risk in terms of the comparison is of a self-fulfilling prophecy, " he said.

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There is the potential here for a self-fulfilling prophecy, in the manner of a bank run.

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