Bookmaker William Hill is so impressed by Paul's predictive powers that it was offering even odds that he will pick the winner of the final on Sunday, between Spain and Holland.
赌博公司威廉·希尔对保罗的预测能力的印象是如此之深刻,以至于开出了它将在在周日西班牙对荷兰的决赛中选择谁的赔率。
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。
Even so, the odds favour marriage.
即便如此,婚姻带来的好处还是更大。
Even if the odds are stacked against you, marriage can more than compensate.
即使情况对你不利,婚姻也能带来更多的补偿。
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。
Odds are, even if your entire framework isn't modular, you will end up identifying core functionality to move to helper classes or helper scripts.
可能性就是,即使如果您的整个框架不是模块化的,您将会不在识别核心的功能,而转移到帮助类或帮助脚本上。
But the odds of moving on after a draw might be even better than 58% suggests, once you weed out teams that got a draw but never were likely to advance to begin with.
不过,要是剔除那些实现了平局但一开始就没什么希望晋级的球队,剩下的球队首战打平后还能出线的机率可能要高过58%。
Towards the end of the program, he announced there were low odds that even one person in the audience had guessed the right order of results.
节目临近结束的时候,他宣布猜对的几率很低,观众中甚至没有一个猜出正确顺序。
Even if they chose to pick only four things to improve on at the same time, the odds of success are surprisingly low.
即便每次只改善四件事情,成功的几率还是低的惊人。
Once in a generation an athlete pits himself against such overwhelming odds that even the most jaded spectator finds himself cheering breathlessly.
每个年代都会有这么一次,某位运动员如此奋力地与强敌竞争以至于连最疲惫的观众都在为他喝彩助威。
And, as you may know, lack of shut-eye doesn't just leave you foggy the next day: Chronic, long-term insufficient sleep ups your odds of diabetes, depression, cardiovascular disease, even weight gain.
你可能也知道,睡眠不足不仅仅是让你第二天迷迷糊糊,长期的睡眠不足更可能让人患糖尿病,抑郁症,心血管疾病,甚至还会长胖。
But let us end on an optimistic note, by happily taking long odds on medical breakthroughs: a vaccination against HIV; a cure for Parkinson's disease; even a cure for the common cold.
还是用一段乐观的旋律来结束这篇文章吧。医学上可能会有一些重大的突破:科学家可能研制出疫苗对抗hiv;或是找到治疗帕金森症的方法;甚至可能是治愈最普通的感冒的办法。
Racing tipsters among the scientists say the odds might be five-to-one or even ten-to-one against some of these potential disasters.
竞相预测的科学家中有人说,这些灾难的可能机率,也许是五比一,甚至是十比一。
We can do far more than we think to improve our odds of preventing and surviving even the most horrendous of catastrophes.
甚至在最可怕的灾难面前,我们也可以比想象中做得更多,以提高我们预防和生存的概率。
You can think of those who struggle even harder than you do, against far greater odds, and with far less to work with than you do.
你也可以想一想另外一些人,他们奋斗得比你还要艰难,面临的不利条件要大得多,而且他们的同伴比你的少得多。
On the face of it, that sounds like a scenario straight out of cheap science fiction. But even if the odds of calamity are small, why gamble?
乍看起来,这种情况,听起来好像是直接来自廉价科幻小说的情节。虽然造成灾难的可能性很小,可是为什么要去冒险呢?
But even if the odds of calamity are small, why gamble?
虽然造成灾难的可能性很小,可是为什么要去冒险呢?
And even if they do grab one vine, the odds of them swinging to catch another and another and another are slim; all those Spaces between the vines could spell disaster.
即使他们抓住了一根藤条,从一根攀爬到另一根藤条的几率也微乎其微。这些藤条之间的距离会引来灾难。
Even if you can't directly use production data, odds are you'll be able to change some values (names, social security Numbers, and such) and use the rest of the data.
即使如果您不能直接使用生产数据,您也可能有更改某些值(名字,社会安全号,等等)和使用其余数据的可能性。
Even though companies may be wedded to long-established or seasonal launch dates, they would do well to delay if waiting might increase the odds of success.
尽管公司可能在长期建立的或者经过几个季节的发布日程,他们如果延期可以做的很好从而避免这些奇怪的问题阻碍成功。
The odds in that war looked less than encouraging, however: even the captains of industry who were emblems of the free enterprise system had, as often as not, succumbed to the prevailing orthodoxy.
她们在那场斗争里的机会似乎不是那么令人鼓舞,要知道,甚至连业界巨头——自由企业制度的象征,也屡屡屈从于流行的正统思想。
With companies looking to it departments for efficiency and productivity but strained by slim budgets, CFOs and chief information officers may be even more at odds than usual.
公司希望IT部门更有效率和生产力,但是因为财政预算的微薄而没有实现,首席财务官和首席信息官比平时更加不和。
Since bond investors are turning their noses up even at offerings from thrifty Germany, the odds against Italy's being able to raise the money it needs early next year are uncomfortably short.
鉴于债券投资者们甚至对节俭的德国都不屑一顾,因此意大利在明年初筹集到必要资金的机会极其渺茫。
British and Spanish households have adjusted even less, so the odds of prolonged weakness in private spending are even greater.
英国和西班牙家庭调整的更少,因此私人消费力不足将很有可能延长一段时间。
The word fair doesn't exactly describe the events that bring together recruiters and job seekers, or even your odds of landing a job offer at this venue.
职场这个词并不确切地代表招聘人员和求职人士集中在一起的场面,也不代表在这个地方你就能找到工作。
Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds.
科学和愿景并不是对立或矛盾的。
Even small increases in activity improved the odds of staving off the disease.
即使是小量增加活动也能改善削减癌症的机会。
One study showed that even watching a recording of yourself that may be at odds with your self-perception does not change that self-perception.
一项研究显示即便是让人们观察自己的视频,在这些视频中他们的行为与他们的自我认识的不一致。他们也依然不会改变先前的自我认识。
Even the main banking agencies are at odds with each other.
即使是主要的银行机构间意见也不一致。
Even the main banking agencies are at odds with each other.
即使是主要的银行机构间意见也不一致。
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