It's not going to burn any other houses down since it's just completely independent of anything else.

由于火灾是独立事件,他的房子着火了并不会烧毁别人的房子

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You can sign up with the Salem Fire Corporation, pay a yearly subscription fee, and if your house catches on fire, they will come and put out the fire.

你可以和塞伦消防公司签约，每年支付会员费，如果你的房子着火，他们会来灭火。

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The extended-through-space train that I'm picking out when I pointed the locomotive turns out to be a different train from the extended-through-space train I picked out when I pointed to the caboose.

当我指着火车头,所提到的贯穿空间的火车,和我指着火车尾,所提到的贯穿空间的火车,不是同一辆。

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If the probability is 1 in 1,000 that a house burns down and there are 1,000 houses, then the probability that they all burn down is 1/1000 to the 1000th power, which is virtually zero.

如果一栋房子着火的概率是千分之一,然后假设有1000栋房子,那么这一千栋房子全都着火被烧掉的概率,就等于千分之一的一千次方,基本上就是0了

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His house caught on fire.

他的房子着火了。

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