Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

  • -- Ian Hacking 伊恩·哈金

切鸡来预测未来,如果诚实地做,并且尽可能少地解释,是一种随机化。但鸡内脏很难读懂,也会让人联想到想象力或腐败。

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At the World Cup and even now at the Confederations Cup, our security provisions will ensure the greatest level of protection possible for all those participating - both inside and outside the stadiums.

无论是在世界杯还是现在的联合会杯,我们的安保措施都将确保所有参赛人员得到最大程度的保护,无论是场内还是场外。

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

通过非我们自己的模式来解释我们的现实,只会让我们变得越来越不为人知,越来越不自由,越来越孤独。

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

我认为,我们现代文化的一个可能定义是,我们十分之九的知识分子不会读诗。

I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

我曾经因为腐败而看不起这个世界,但现在我却因为腐败的绝对壮丽而崇拜它。

We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.

我们必须同消极作斗争,特别是同官僚主义、腐败和浪费作斗争。

The title of the movie is open to interpretation.

这部电影的片名有待解释。