2. Errors and uncertainties multiply, cascading upward through a chain of turbulent features, from dust devils and squalls up to continent-size eddies that only satellites can see. 错误和不可靠性上升,接踵而来的是一系列湍流的徵状,从小尘暴和暴风发展到只有卫星上可以看到的席卷整块大陆的旋涡。
3. By 12.01, those fluctuations will already have created small errors one foot away. 到12:01时,那些波动就已经会在1英尺远的地方造成偏差。
4. We all know what the poor man should have said, but what he actually said was: ´This is the Poo and Ee Seed Bird Company. Good ladies, evening and gentlemen!´ 我们都明白那个可怜的人应该说些什么,而他实际说的却是:"这是´浦伊´鸟食公司,好女士们,晚上和先生们!"
5. Soon the errors will have multiplied to the ten-foot scale, and so on up to the size of the globe. 很快这种偏差会增加到尺10英的范围,如此等等,一直到全球的范围。
6. One of the country's largest credit bureaus paid out a huge amount of money a few years ago after settling a court case filed by 19 states claiming the company's reports were full of errors. 几年前,19个州指控国内一家大型信用机构的报告错误百出,这家公司因此付了一大笔钱。