Life like chess is a fickle game.

人生就像国际象棋一样，是一盘变化无常的游戏。

How fickle the universe can be.

世事无常了吧。

In the fickle world of restaurants, sticking to a vision takes guts It is nearly 30 years since St John opened in a former smokehouse, just to the north of the City of London.

在瞬息万变的餐饮业，坚持愿景需要勇气距圣约翰在伦敦金融城北的一个原是熏肉店的地方开业已经30年了。

It’s in villages like these where common-sense has stood firm against the fickle winds of architectural whimsy.

在这样的村，异妙想的建筑风格敌不过平凡常见的建筑。

I want to encourage people to create a list of contacts that they will work with and support as they take their first steps into the fickle and often challenging creative world.

我想鼓励人们创建一个利于工作的社交网络圈子，当他们踏入变化无常充满挑战的世界时，他们将会相互支持。

Human behavior is very fickle, especially when it comes to food and beverage.

人类的行为是非常善变的，尤其是在食物和饮料方面。

In much of the region rutted roads and fickle seas are a far bigger worry.

在东南亚大多数地方，坑洼的道路与变幻的海域远比飞行安全更让人忧虑。

However, fortune is fickle, for masterpieces as for men.

然而，无论是杰作还是人，其命运是变幻无常的。

You know, the street, as we know, Wall Street, whatever, venture capitalists, they're fickle.

你知道，华尔街，我们都知道，不管怎样，风险资本家，他们是善变的。

But I would not describe a loose cannon as fickle.

但是我不会形容难的人反复无常。

High prices rarely benefit the small family farmers whose futures depend on the fickle fruit.

然而，高昂的价格很少福泽到那些要靠变化无常的香草果实维生的小农小户。

Fate is fickle, after all, and baby names are subjected to the whims of fashion.

毕竟，命运变幻无常，婴儿的名字也受时尚潮流的影响。

The root of all fearlessness charging forward during it, they're more fleet of foot than pickle when they're in a pickle nothing fickle about the way they bear up, under the trickle of trouble.

它们的无畏表现在大胆往前冲，它们的脚步在困境中更加敏捷，遇到麻烦也不浮躁。

If you ever find yourself in the top job at a major company, you should know that your position is simultaneously far more secure and far more fickle than the average rank and file employee working under you.

如果你发现自己在一家大公司担任高管，你应该知道你的职位比在你手下工作的普通员工更安全，也更变化无常。

New liquidity requirements prevent them from borrowing money on fickle overnight markets while lending it on for 30 years, the practice that felled Northern Rock, the first British bank to fail during the crisis.

新的变现能力要求防止它们向瞬息万变的隔夜市场借款，再向外贷出为期的30年贷款。那个做法使得英国首家银行北岩银行在危机中倒闭了。

The danger is that the public is poorly informed, and its expectations are therefore fickle. Even firms do not seem to pay much attention to inflation nowadays.

危险在于公众掌握的信息匮乏，因此他们的预期也会变幻无常。如今即使是企业似乎也不太重视通胀。

The weather is quite fickle these days and you should make sure that you err on the side of caution by wearing a bit more.

最近天气变化无常，你应该适时增减衣物。

But this is hardly a sure bet. Markets may be fickle at times, succumbing to irrational exuberance or depression, but over time they do a passable job of establishing value.

但这一赌注几乎毫无胜算。由于无规律的繁荣与萧条，市场情况变幻莫测，但长时间来看市场是可维持价值稳定的。

But it was Rembrandt who all of a sudden seemed to be giving off a bad smell. The smell of someone from whom the fickle goddess fortune was shying away.

但是这就好像是伦勃朗突然放了个臭屁，然后变幻无常的命运女神就这样被熏跑了。

Consumer tastes remain fickle: following the gin-and-tonic boom, there is now talk of the non-alcoholic spirits explosion, the dawn of tequila and soda, the emerging craft rum supremacy.

继杜松子酒和奎宁水的热潮后，人们又开始谈论非酒精烈酒的爆炸式增长、龙舌兰酒和苏打水的黎明、手工朗姆酒的新兴霸主地位。