当事情的结果不像我们所希望的那样时，我们很容易假设，如果我们做的事情不同，故事会有一个更快乐的结局。

When things don't turn out as we would like them to, it is very tempting to assume that had we done things differently, the story would have had a happier ending.

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下面这条新闻故事不像我们网站通常那样跟硬件相关，但是它非常有趣，可以让你整个这一周感觉更好，甚至好到可以为你们中的一些人提供服装。

The following news story is not as much hardware related as our site usually does, but it is funny enough to make your whole week better and even good enough to provide with clothing some of you.

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是的，在《传奇说书人》中，给我们讲述了冒险故事，但是冒险是像我们在最喜爱的读物中读到的一样。

Yes, the Great Storyteller has adventure for us. Sometimes it's adventure like we read about in our favorite books.

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Nevertheless, as I emphasized earlier in the patriarchal stories, in the end we're dealing here with sacred history.

无论如何，就像我先前在族长故事中强调的，最后我们在这里探讨的是宗教历史。

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If this happened frequently enough, instead of just a little science fiction story like with the David Smith case, maybe we'd say,yeah,possession is one of these things that needs to be explained.

如果这种事情频繁发生，而不是像David，Smith案例般的科幻故事，也许我们就会说，没错，夺舍是一个亟待解释的事态。

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