If you ride downhill, you'll be tempting fate.
你要是骑着它走下坡路,那你就是玩命呢。
Walking through that field with the bull loose is just tempting fate.
同没拴住的公牛一起穿过那块田野简直是在冒险。
The bike brakes don't work. If you ride downhill, you'll be tempting fate.
这辆自行车的闸不灵了。你要是骑着它走下坡路,那你就是玩命呢。
The young journalists had been tempting fate in a region then shut out of communication.
年轻的记者们正在某地冒险拍摄,其与外界的联系不久就被切断了。
For over 180 years, people have been tempting fate in an attempt to conquer their fears and the Falls.
一百八十多年来,人们在此玩命以图克服恐惧和征服瀑布。
To avoid tempting fate, you must perform tasks like these on a different thread, or at least not on the main UI thread.
为了避免冒险,您必须在不同的线程上执行任务,或者至少不在主ui线程上执行。
Some of Bear Stearns's more superstitious traders even objected to the strategy's name: They were tempting fate by invoking chaos.
有些迷信的交易员甚至抵制这一策略的名字:引起“混沌”就是拿命运冒险。
But HP is surely tempting fate by appointing a fourth outside CEO (or near-outsider, given that she has spent a few months on the board).
但是惠普冒不必要的险任命第四个外部人作为首席执行官(或者说是近外部人,考虑到她花费几个月在董事局)。
This phrase is almost like a verbal talisman, designed to ward off bad luck after tempting fate: "Breaking that mirror didn't bring me any trouble, knock on wood."
这个短语几乎是一个口头护身符,用来在犯错误之后避开厄运:“打破了那面镜子不会带给我厄运,敲敲木头。”
It WAS tempting fate to call an ambitious new aircraft the "Dreamliner". A combination of radical technology and a novel outsourced system of manufacture has turned the Boeing 787 into a nightmare.
波音将一款新型客机野心勃勃地称为“梦幻客机”,这是十分冒险的策略,其实其急进的技术和新型外包生产体系使得787客机已成为一场梦魇。
It WAS tempting fate to call an ambitious new aircraft the "Dreamliner". A combination of radical technology and a novel outsourced system of manufacture has turned the Boeing 787 into a nightmare.
波音将一款新型客机野心勃勃地称为“梦幻客机”,这是十分冒险的策略,其实其急进的技术和新型外包生产体系使得787客机已成为一场梦魇。
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