Consumers had assumed wine served in screw-top bottles was inferior—until suddenly they were so ubiquitous and acceptable (and easier to open) that many wine lovers came to prefer them.

消费者们原来觉得把酒盛在瓶盖是螺丝拧的瓶子里是不上档次的——直到突然满大街都是这样的装法（而且的确好开多了），然后酒徒们也开始喜欢上了这种包装。

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As soon as she saw something which she thought might make a tasty snack, she would lock onto it, wait until it came close enough, and then suddenly pounce.

一旦发现她认为会是美味的点心的东西，她就会锁定它，等待它足够接近，然后突然之间猛扑过去。

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Perhaps a design works so well. It is adopted elsewhere again and again, with seemingly harmless improvements, until, suddenly, it does not work at all anymore.

一种设计效果很好，反复应用于其他地方，加上一些看似没什么影响的改进，突然有一天它就不奏效了。

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The mathematical theory of probability was unknown until that time and you can see that insurance suddenly made an appearance at that time.

在那之前,概率的数学理论,是不存在的,而随着概率论的出现,保险业也突然出现了

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