我们总是通过试错，过度的使用暴力（译者注：可能是指破坏程序结构的代码），大量的测试去完成一项工作；尽管很漂亮，但是常常是不够的。

We perform many minor miracles through trial and error, excessive use of brute force, and lots and lots of testing, but--so often--it's not enough.

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伊拉克商人抱怨cnn过度宣扬该国的暴力行为，虽然这是真实的事情。

Iraqi businessmen gripe that CNN exaggerates the violence in their country, but it is real enough.

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They had a concept called hybris, to be translated as something among these terms, excess, arrogance,violence.I think the fullest grasp of it, I think, might be rendered best by violent arrogance.

他们有一种称为hybris的概念,hybris可以理解为,过度,傲慢或暴力,但我认为最好理解成极度自大

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