We are naturally skeptical of the unknown and, of course, there is always a chance we might not be very good at it, or even worse, might look silly while trying.

我们对于未知事物有天然的怀疑，而且，我们当然可能对其并不擅长，或者更糟的是，在尝试时洋相百出。

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"I was pretty skeptical at first," said Tom Martins, a freelance writer in San Francisco, whose wife hired a feng shui master to look at their home. "he."

“一开始我很怀疑。”旧金山的一位自由作家汤姆·马汀斯这样说，他的太太聘请了一位风水师来看他们的家。

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We took a skeptical look at an executive training firm called NXIVM (pronounced nexium), run by a charismatic leader named Keith Raniere.

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One problem with taking a skeptical look at a Dr. Oz show is that he packs each episode with scientific claims, coming at you thick and fast, and it would take hours to critique them all.

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Given the high hurdle stocks must clear in YCharts Pro the evaluation system ranks stocks on historical trends and relative valuations, not on projected earnings as sell-side analysts do Apple is thus worth a look even by skeptical value investors.

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