A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
预测
Predict
Dreams sometimes foretell the future.
梦想有时预示着未来。
I can never predict what's going to happen.
我永远无法预测将会发生什么。
I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.
我无法预测我是自由离开这里，还是戴着手铐。
I predict that ashtrays will become as obsolete as spitoons in our lifetime.
我预测，在我们的有生之年，烟灰缸将像痰盂一样被淘汰。
I believe the only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
我相信预测未来的唯一方法就是拥有塑造未来的力量。
As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.
作为作家，我们无法预测谁会发现我们的作品有价值。
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
思考未来的目的不是预测未来，而是提高人们的希望。
You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.
你不能预测一个节目，这是最糟糕的事情，你不能预测一个节目在播出之前是否会成功。
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
试图预测未来就像试图在没有灯光的夜晚开车行驶在乡间小路上，同时从后窗往外看。
I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.
我不会再抱着这种失败主义的态度去听那些除了世界末日什么都不能预测的人说的废话了。
You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.
你永远无法正确地预测未来，因为它最终会变成现实。所以当你写科幻小说的时候，你在做一些不同的事情。你现在正试图从不同的角度看问题。
Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.
通过不断积累有关基本反应的详细可靠的知识，我们将能够更好地理解、预测和控制许多与时间有关的宏观化学过程，这些过程在自然界或人类社会中是重要的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.
我无法预测阅读习惯将如何改变。但我想说的是，最大的损失是纸质档案——不再是一大堆手稿、信件和作家生活中的笔记本，而是一小堆磁盘，小小的塑料饼干，曾经是书法奇迹的地方。