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

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And psychologists have coined a term, talk about self-fulfilling prophesies, and the claim here more specifically is what's known as "the Pygmalion effect."

心理学家造了一个新术语，来讨论这种自我实现的预言，准确来说这个现象就是,皮格马利翁效应“

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The Pygmalion effect that we are going to talk about next week or the week after, shows how teachers' expectations are self-fulfilling prophecies.

我们下周或再下周会探讨,皮格马利翁效应，说明为什么教师的期望就是自我实现的预言。

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With concern about earnings and more companies issuing profit warnings - the media's constant reference to recession may turn out to be a self fulfilling prophecy.

BBC: Media fuel fears of US recession

There's a self fulfilling prophecy there.

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Semi-fixed systems cannot withstand the assault of integrated capital markets: they are prone to self-fulfilling panics.

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