tempt fate
基本解释
- 蔑视命运;冒险;玩命
英汉例句
- 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)。 - If there is any truth to this matter of a Facebook smartphone, it may be more likely that Facebook tempting fate with some sort of licensing scenario.
FORBES: Facebook Phone Rumors - Social Mobility Is Big Business - If you add the mystery of Clapham Common to the legacy of back-to-basics, you begin to think that the government is tempting fate by sticking to its plans to publish a consultative paper on the family next week.
ECONOMIST: Public lives, private morals
双语例句
权威例句
专业释义
- 蔑视命运