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我们常常自寻烦恼，杞人忧天。 We too often borrow trouble, and anticipate what may never appear. | ||
我们常常过多地自寻烦恼，杞人忧天。 We too often borrow trouble, and anticipate that may never appear. | ||
假想此类威胁简直就是杞人忧天、杯弓蛇影。 To imagine such threats is to fear shadows. | ||
我们所有的担心结果都证明是杞人忧天。 All our fears proved ill-founded. | ||
你或许杞人忧天——因为许多人都这样——怕这些趣致的野花多会离弃英国。 You may assume - because many people do - that most of the interesting wild flowers have gone from England. | ||
一些杞人忧天的人预测说，假如科学家真的能够造出一个新宇宙，它也许会摧毁现存的宇宙。 Some worrywarts have predicted that if the scientists actually do create a new universe, it might destroy the existing one. | ||
不管ipv6是不是千年问题式的杞人忧天，对物联网来说ipv6都将是一个更加宽广的平台。 Whether or not there is Y2K-style fear mongering, the bottom line is that IPv6 is a much larger platform for the coming Internet of Things. | ||
这意味着公司里的杞人忧天者，例如律师这样担心承认任何过失都可能导致法律诉讼，要靠边了。 This means sidelining corporate cluck-cluckers such as lawyers who worry that any admission of guilt will lead to lawsuits. | ||
在大多数国家里男人仅仅因为拥有一条Y染色体便享有在社会和法律上的特权，这样看来，担心男性的“悲催命运”般的困境似乎是在杞人忧天。 In much of the world they still enjoy social and legal privileges simply because they have a Y chromosome. So it might seem odd to worry about the plight of men. | ||
而杞人忧天的政客和末日论的学者们则可能在指出衰减状态的同时也遗漏了国家持续的国力和吸引力，这些都应该与面临的问题和担忧受到同等重视。 And alarmist politicians and doomster academics may, in pointing to the state of decay, miss a nation's continuing strengths and attractions, which have to be weighed against its problems and worries. | ||
