Some lucky species happen to be naturally suited to cities.

很多幸运的物能适应城市的生活。譬如说常春藤。

While a student in McCollum's class, Jobs became friends with a graduate who was the teacher's all-time favorite and a school legend for his wizardry in the class.

还在麦科勒姆班上的时候，乔布斯与一个本校的毕业生成了朋友，此人就是斯蒂芬·沃兹尼亚克 （Stephen Wozniak )。沃兹尼亚克一直是老师最喜欢的学生，并因为在班上展现出的杰出才能而成为全校的传奇人物。

I don't know, you've probably heard the story of how it came together: apparently Denzel had always wanted to work with Denzel, and it just so happened that their schedules worked out.

我不清楚，你是否了解这件事，很明显，丹泽尔一直只想与自己“共事”，提名的档期挺和。

He happened to be visiting Chambers one day when an advance copy of the sixth edition of Vestiges was delivered.

达尔文在《创造的自然史之残迹》第6版样到达的那一天拜访钱伯斯。

I happen to think the tariffs for our country are very powerful.

我认为我们国家的关税是很高的。

This whole thing got started because most of the world's most powerful countries a hundred years ago just happened to be at latitudes with long summer days and darker winters.

这整件事的缘由是因为100年前世界上最强大的国家都处于夏季漫长，冬季黑暗的纬度地区。

As it happens, a large dip in the jet stream allows very cold air to spill into the U.S. That's the cold air you feel.

的是，高速气流中的一个大的倾角会让非常冷的空气进入美国，这就是你感觉到的冷空气。

And if you happen to be watching this at whatever point in the future that we all get neural implants to let us store our memories on servers in space, what I'm about to tell you is woefully inaccurate.

如果你在将来的某个时候看到了这个视频，我们都做了神经植入以让我们把存在太空中的服务器上，那接下来我要告诉你的就是一些非常不准确的东西了。

That means it could take decades before they're able to confirm their theory, if they happen to be looking for this at just the right time.

这意味着他们可能需要几十年才能证实他们的理论——如果他们在正确的时间研究这个理论。

It starts to appear as though 'everyone' is successful because all those who we happen to hear about really are successes – and we have forgotten to imagine the oceans of tears and despair that necessarily surround them.

似乎“每个人”都是成功的，因为我们听到的所有人都是成功的，而我们忘了想象他们周围必然是泪水和绝望的海洋。

That model happened to be extremely scalable.

该模型具有极高的可扩展性。

But then seven years later, a man by the name of Edward Pembroke just so happened that he was an animal trainer in the Ringling Brothers in Barnum in Bailey Circus as a young man.

但七年后，一个名叫爱德华·彭布罗克的人年轻时是贝利马戏团巴纳姆区林林兄弟剧团的一名驯兽师。

But he only says that because he takes a very strong, and as it happens, anti-Aristotelian position on what a game is.

但他这么说，只是因为他关于运动的本质，与亚里士多德派持有不同的观点。

Which is, coincidentally, one of my favorites.

的是，这是我的最爱之一。

How would aliens happen upon the correct one?

外星人如何找到正确的频率呢？

If a higher-up-best of all, the CEO- happens to accept, you have struck gold.

如果一位更高层的人--最好的是首席执行官--接受了你的邀请，你就挖到了金子。

And if you have fatty poop that happens to float?

假如是你的脂性粪漂浮呢？

There's nothing special about a book just because it happens to be in book format.

一本没有什么特别的，只是因为它是的格式。

It just happened to be yours truly, Adam Freedman.

它可能是你的朋友，亚当·弗里德曼。

So it's not that you overall are eighty-five percent West Asian, but that the particular spot that they happened to look at, eighty-five percent of those locations are associated with Western Asia in their reference population.

这并不是说你们总体上是85%的西亚人，而是说他们看到的那个部分，在他们的参考人口中，85%的那一部分与西亚有关。