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Murphy's law
noun [ U ]
  humorous
uk
/ˌmɜː.fiz ˈlɔː/ us
/ˌmɝː.fiz ˈlɑː/
(UK offensive also Sod's law)
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the principle that if it is possible for something to go wrong, it will go wrong
墨菲法则（一种认为凡有可能出差错的事终将出差错的论断）
The bus is always late but today when I was late it came on time - that's Murphy's law! 那一路公共汽车总是晚点，可是今天我迟到了，它却准时来了——我想那一定是墨菲法则在起作用。

(Translation of Murphy's law from the Cambridge English-Chinese (Simplified) Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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in Chinese (Traditional)
莫非定律（一種認為凡有可能出差錯的事終將出差錯的論斷）…
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in Spanish
el principio según el cual si algo puede salir mal, sale mal seguro…
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