Your chances of being more carefully considered for the job can quickly go downhill just by saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.

如果你在错误的时间说了错误的话，在这份工作上你被仔细考虑的机会就会迅速减少。

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If you make clinical predictions based on somebody's race, you're going to be wrong a good chunk of the time.

如果你根据某个人的种族做出临床预测，你非常可能出错。

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Experts say by the time a farmer discovers that something is wrong, it is already too late.

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That didn't work. Well they couldn't figure out what was wrong. And they spent a long time trying to debug the program.

调试这个程序,那时候当然不叫调试了,然后他们发现了问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

we'll send these questions to your TA so any time you get a clicker question wrong and you're confused, bring it up in the next recitation section and you'll be able to discuss it there.

交给你们的助教，所以任何时候,如果你们,答错了课堂问题，或者对它有疑问的话,可以在下次的,讨论课上讨论。

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First of all, what my opponent wants you to forget is that he voted to authorize the use of force, and now says it's the wrong war at the wrong time at the wrong place.

NPR: Transcript of Presidential Debate

Granted, Bush and Gore will make it a tough contest and a close election, but -- based on returns in Reaganland -- the Republicans' anointed candidate appears to be the wrong man at the wrong time in the wrong place.

CNN: Bill Press: Bush's victory is a hollow one

Besides the ethical issues in buying counterfeits there are very practical applications: buy a fake Rolex and the worst case scenario for the user is having the time wrong, but go skiing in a faux North Face and you might freeze to death.

FORBES: Golfers Beware: Counterfeit Clubs Proliferate Online