Nicknames like Shorty, Clumsy, Crybaby, Slowpoke, Klutz, or Nerd can become daily reminders of incompetence. They can also become self-fulfilling prophecies.

像“小矮子、小傻瓜、小哭孩、呆子、笨笨、书呆子”之类的绰号会成为对无能的日常提醒，它们也有可能成为自我实现的预言。

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Without those changed perspectives it will be hard to find the courage, motivation, enthusiasm and whatever else you may need. And then there are self-fulfilling prophecies.

不换个角度思考就很难找到勇气、动力、激情和其他自己所需要的东西。

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In certain circumstances speculators are capable of creating self-fulfilling prophecies.//

在某些情况下，投机者能够创造出自我实现的预言。

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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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So let me move on now to the next lecture, " which is "Belief as Self-Fulfilling Prophecies".

现在开始下一课，“信念即自我实现预言。

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And we'll talk about it in future lecture as belief in self-fulfilling prophecies.

我们会在下一次课讲到自我实现的预言。

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The problem is that many of these prejudices start to act as self-fulfilling prophecies.

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And, the authors point out, there is the possibility of self-fulfilling prophecies.

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More alarming may be the self-fulfilling prophecies that this skepticism cultivates.

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