RULE 3: Use the law of averages to outlaw your worries.

规则 3：使用平均法则消除你的担忧。

I didn't. - The law of averages caught up to them.

不知道 -这种时候总有人倒霉。

Let's examine the law of averages and see whether or not it is likely to happen'.

让我们检查平均法则，看看它是否有可能发生。

Discipline me in the habit of trying and trying again; yet show me the way to make use of the law of averages.

训练我不断尝试的习惯；告诉我如何利用平均法则。

Tragic as those figures are, we nevertheless felt that, according to the law of averages, the chances of any one child being stricken were remote.

尽管这些数字很悲惨，但我们仍然认为，根据平均法则，任何一名儿童遭受袭击的可能性都微乎其微。

In other words, by the law of averages, based on experience, the chances are five thousand to one against one of your cars ever being wrecked.

换句话说，根据平均法则， 根据经验，你的一辆车被撞坏的几率是五千分之一。

Let's ask ourselves: " What are the chances, according to the law of averages, that this event I am worrying about will ever occur" ?

让我们问问自己：“根据平均法则， 我担心的这个事件发生的可能性有多大” ？

This knowledge of the law of averages wiped out my jitters, " said Clyde W. Maas, of 1969 Walnut Street, St. Paul, Minnesota-the man who told this story. "

“对平均法则的了解消除了我的紧张情绪， ” 讲述这个故事的 1969 年明尼苏达州圣保罗核桃街的克莱德·W·马斯 (Clyde W. Maas) 说。

I realize that I'm one of the lucky ones, because the law of averages will tell you that these children are likely to fall behind by two whole school years.

我意识到我是幸运儿之一，因为平均法则告诉你，这些孩子很可能落后整整两个学年。

The United States Navy used the statistics of the law of averages to buck up the morale of their men. One ex-sailor told me that when he and his shipmates were assigned to high-octane tankers, they were worried stiff.

美国海军使用平均法则的统计数据来鼓舞他们士兵的士气。一位前水手告诉我，当他和他的船员被分配到高辛烷值油轮时，他们非常担心。

I decided that she just sat in the sun watching the butterflies, and sooner or later by the law of averages one lit on her hand and her fingers closed over it so slowly that it was not alarmed.

我决定她只是坐在阳光下看蝴蝶，根据平均法则，迟早会有一只蝴蝶落在她的手上，她的手指慢慢地合上它，以至于它没有惊慌。

" 'By the law of averages, it won't happen'. That phrase has destroyed ninety per cent of my worries; and it has made the past twenty years of my life beautiful and peaceful beyond my highest expectations" .

“‘根据平均法则， 这不会发生’。这句话摧毁了我百分之九十的烦恼； 它让我过去二十年的生活变得美好而平静， 超出了我最高的期望” 。

" When I looked at it that way, " Jim Grant told me, " I felt pretty silly. I decided then and there to let the law of averages do the worrying for me-and I have not been troubled with my 'stomach ulcer' since" !

“当我那样看的时候， ” 吉姆格兰特告诉我， “我觉得很傻。我当时就决定让平均法则替我担心——我并没有被我的‘胃溃疡’困扰自从” ！