Just as some people blindly believe that merit determines success, so it is possible to get too hung up on the role of chance.

就像一些人盲为功绩决定成功一样，有一些人可能过于迷信运气的作用。

Raffles stood very still, staring down at the dead, as a man might stare into an abyss after striding blindly to its brink.

莱佛士一动不动站着， 低头凝视着死者， 就像一个人在盲大踏步走到深渊的边缘后凝视深渊一样。

Voldemort had been vanquished hours before, but his supporters- and many of them are almost as terrible as he- were still at large, angry, desperate and violent.

伏魔几个小时前被打败了，是他的那些支持者还在逍遥法外，并且他们中的很多人都像伏魔一样可怕——他们都是愤怒而残暴的亡命之徒。

I didn't know how to poach an egg, but that's okay because ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode, a Her-like assistant that converses almost as naturally as a person, talked me through it.

我不会煮荷包蛋，关系，因为ChatGPT的高级语音模式像电影《她》里的助手一样，几乎可以像人一样自然交谈，它全程用语音教我怎么做荷包蛋。

If we arbitrarily define efficiency as output per unit of labor, as some do, then it is merely circular reasoning to say that having one bus driver moving more passengers is more efficient.

如果我们像某些人那样武断将效率定义为每单位劳动力的产出，那么说让一名公交车司机运送更多乘客就更高效就只是循环推理。