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

然而，论是杰作还是人，其命运是变幻的。

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

毕竟，命运变幻，儿的名字也受时尚潮流的影响。

The weather is constantly in flux. A low pressure system allows moist air to rise, cool and form rain clouds.

天气是变幻的。低气压系统使潮湿的空气上升，冷凝，形成降雨云。

The famously fickle nature of the lights.

灯光那出了名的变幻的特性。

The praise of others is a fickle thing upon which to measure our worth.

他人的赞誉是变幻的，不足以衡量我们的价值。

The recent renaissance of independent presses may fade with the changing tastes of prize committees or the fickle fancies of readers.

最近独立媒体的复兴可能会随着奖委员会品味的变化或读者变幻的幻想而消失。

So the US government set rules for automakers to start making cars more fuel efficient to lessen our dependance on the whims of the global oil market.

因此，美国政府为汽车制造商制定了规则，要求他们开始生产更省油的汽车，以减少我们对全球石油市场变幻的依赖。

She called it Variety or the Vicissitudes of Long Life, which I had to look up and it means the chains of circumstances, typically unwelcome ones.

她称之为《多样性》或《漫长人生的变幻》，我不得不查了一下，意思是境遇的连锁反应，通指不受欢迎的。

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，然后变幻的命运女神就这样被熏跑了。

We're guessing what young women are gonna wanna buy next week and three months from now, and so the fickle fashion, the challenge of it, you have to be in the game every day 'cause it's changing.

我们要猜测年轻女性下周以及三个月后会想买什么，所以面对变幻的时尚、时尚带来的挑战，你必须每天都参与其中，因为它一直都在发生变化。

Candid meaning to be frank in telling the truth, open, honest, candid discussion about something is an honest and open one and the vulnerability of living in an industry that is often fickle and unforgiving.

坦率意味着坦诚地讲出真相，开诚布公。关于一个变幻且的行业，坦率的讨论就是真诚而开放的讨论，也揭示了身处其中所面临的脆弱性。

A person's life is a moment, his existence a flowing stream, his perception dull, the entire fabric of his body readily subject to decay, his soul an aimless wanderer, his fortune erratic, his fame uncertain.

一个人的生命不过是一瞬，他的存在如同奔流的河水，他的感知迟钝，整个身体极易腐朽，他的灵魂如目的的流浪者，他的命运变幻，他的名声亦难预料。

In Thebes, he saw, too, the besetting weaknesses of a democratic city-state, constant party intrigue, lack of a strong executive power, the inability to force quick decisions, The unpredictable vagaries of the assembly at voting time.

在底比斯，他也目睹了民主城邦的固有弱点：党派间的持续纷争、缺乏强有力的行政权力、法迅速作出决策，以及议会在投票时刻难以预料的变幻。