destinies

British psychologist Richard Wiseman has studied hundreds of people who describe themselves as lucky or unlucky, wanting to better understand how people can control their destinies and their luck.

英国心理学家理查德-怀斯曼对上百人进行了研究，被研究者中有的说自己是幸运儿，也有的说自己是倒霉蛋。

Like we have roped it with our music, and now we are hauling it across the night sky like it's a massive fishing net, brimming with all our unknown destinies.

就好似我们用音乐系住它，拖过夜空，犹如一张巨大的渔网，网中装满我们未知的命运。

To have access to literature, world literature, was to escape the prison of national vanity, of philistinism, of compulsory provincialism, of inane schooling, of imperfect destinies and bad luck.

接触文学，接触世界文学，不啻是逃出民族虚荣心的监狱、市侩的监狱、强迫性的地方主义监狱、愚蠢的学校教育的监狱、不完美的命运和怀运气的监狱。