They all know the risks, but opportunities don't come much bigger than this.

他们都很清楚面临的危险，但是如此这般的好机会失不再来。

So the myth tried to give people an explanation for something they could not understand.

如此这般，神话的作用是为人们不了解的事物寻求一令解释。

She knew only that if she did or said thus-and-so, men would unerringly respond with the complementary thus-and-so.

只明白，只要如此这般地做了说了，男人们会准确无误地用如此这般的恭维来回报。

They inform us, for example, that an object has such and such properties or behaves thus or so, but not that it must have these qualities, or behave so.

它们告诉我们，例如，某个物体具有这样那样的性质，或者表现出如此这般的行为，但并没有说明它必然具有这些性质，或必然如此行为。

In order to know anything at all about the table, we must know truths connecting it with things with which we have acquaintance: we must know that 'such-and-such sense-data are caused by a physical object'.

为了对桌子有任何了解， 我们必须知道将它与我们所熟知的事物联系起来的真理：我们必须知道“如此这般的感觉数据是由物理对象引起的” 。

Thus the American president and vice-president have surnames starting with B and C respectively; and 26 of George Bush's predecessors (including his father) had surnames in the first half of the alphabet against just 16 in the second half.

如此这般，美国的总统和副总统的姓氏分别是以 B 和C字母起头。乔治·布什的前任有二十六位（包括其父）的姓氏均在字母表的前半部，而姓氏在字母表后半部的却仅有十六位。