Studies of innovation come to the same conclusion: You can't engineer innovation, but you can increase the odds of it occurring.
有关创新的研究得出了同样的结论：你不能设计创新，但你可以增加它产生的机率。
The risk of heart disease increased 15% over a decade, and the odds of dying prematurely climbed 13% during a seven-year follow-up.
患心脏病的风险在10年内增加了15%，在随后7年的跟进调查中，早夭的几率攀升了13%。
The odds of a criminal using technical means to bypass a security system are so small that the FBI doesn't even track those statistics.
罪犯利用技术手段躲过安全系统的几率非常小，小到FBI 都不会追踪这些数据。
The experiment highlights the importance of morality: without it, how can a robot decide whom to save or what's best for humanity, especially if it can't calculate survival odds?
这个实验强调了道德的重要性：如果没有道德，一个机器人怎么能决定拯救谁，或者什么对人类最有利，尤其是当它不能计算生存几率的时候？
Nearly every person who runs for political office has an intuitive sense that they can powerfully influence their odds of winning the election if they can just raise and spend more money.
几乎每个竞选政治职位的人都有一种直觉，如果他们能筹集和花费更多的钱，他们就能有力地影响他们赢得选举的几率。
Arazi is odds-on to win the Kentucky Derby.
阿拉兹十有八九会在肯塔基赛马会上获胜。
It makes no odds to me whether you go or stay.
你的去留与我无关。
She put in some clothes, odds and ends, and make-up.
她把一些衣服、零碎物品和化妆品放进去了。
He reckons the odds are against the plan going ahead.
他认为该计划不太可能进行下去。
They secured a victory in the face of overwhelming odds.
尽管情况非常不利，他们仍得到了胜利。
These findings are at odds with what is going on in the rest of the country.
这些研究结果与国内其他地区的实际情况并不相符。
Many collectors are willing to pay over the odds for early examples of his work.
许多收藏家都肯出高价买他早期的作品。
The troops will only engage in a ground battle when all the odds are in their favour.
该部队只会在完全可能取胜的情况下进行一场地面战斗。
Of the five companies bidding for the contract, Wall Street analysts have made Lockheed the odds-on favourite.
在投标的五个公司里，华尔街分析师认为罗克希德最有可能中标。
Odds bobs, hammer and tongs I'm burning.
哎唷，天呐，烫死我了。
At least, she says, they can maximize the odds of success.
她说，但至少他们可以最大限度地提高成功率。
And yet in many ways the two dreams ended up at odds with each other.
然而在很多方面，这两个梦想最终互相冲突。
"S'death and odds fish," he thundered, "who is to bring me that doodle-doo?"
“王八蛋活见鬼，”他吼道，“谁要去给我把那个喔喔叫带来？”
He had pots and pans and odds and ends, but mother had no money to buy anything.
他卖锅碗瓢盆和零星杂物，但是，妈妈没有钱买任何东西。
He immediately answered in Hook's voice: "Odds, bobs, hammer and tongs, I hear you."
他立刻用胡克的声音回答道：“见鬼，我听见你说话了。”
Men score higher starting salaries, have more mentoring, and have better odds of being hired.
男性的起薪更高，拥有更多的辅导机会，受雇的概率也更高。
In the past her novels were thought to follow an Augustan mode at odds with the Romantic ethos.
在过去，她的小说被认为是遵循奥古斯都风格，与浪漫主义精神背道而驰。
When in doubt, if you're having some weird character issue, odds are you need to escape it in some way.
当你有疑问时，如果你有一些奇怪的性格问题，很可能你需要用某种方式来摆脱它。
Mendelssohn's enduring popularity has often been at odds—sometimes quite sharply—with his critical standing.
门德尔松经久不衰的声望经常与他的批判立场产生矛盾，有时甚至是尖锐的矛盾。
Hypotheses regarding dinosaurian and avian evolution are unusually diverse—and often at odds with one another.
关于恐龙和鸟类进化的假说有不同寻常的分歧，而且常常互相矛盾。
They try to fit in with the rest of the world even though it's at odds with their beliefs and their identities.
他们努力融入世界，尽管他们和世界其他地方有着不同的信仰和身份。
In fact, vaguely-stated possibilities of winning a prize were more effective than options with hard odds included.
事实上，含糊其辞的中奖可能性要比获奖条件清晰明确的博彩更有效。
The next time you consider eating fallen food, the odds are in your favor that you can eat it without getting sick.
下次当你考虑吃掉在地上的食物时，很有可能吃了也不会生病。
So the next time you consider eating fallen food, the odds are in your favor that you can eat it without getting sick.
所以下次你考虑吃掉落的食物时，很有可能你吃了也不会生病。
Jobs' career can be viewed as a consistent pursuit of improving those odds, both for himself and the companies he has led.
乔布斯的职业生涯可以被看作是一场持续不断的追求之旅，为了他自己，也为了他所领导的公司。
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