and in a world already drained of confidence, one doesn’t have to be superstitious to think that talking about contingency plans makes them more likely to be needed.
在这样一个信心被逐渐耗尽的世界,人们不再迷信的认为谈论未雨绸缪的计划会让他们成为炙手可热的焦点。
the princess alice findings are important because they tell us that, before the age of seven, children’s minds aren’t quite cognitively ripe enough to allow them to be superstitious thinkers.
爱丽丝公主游戏的发现很重要,因为他们告诉我们,七岁以下儿童的心理在认知方面还不够成熟来让他们成为迷信者。
it is stressed that not all customs are in line with science. some of them might even be superstitious or anti-scientific. however, in some sense, it is the soil …
同时亦强调风俗习尚不都是科学的,有时甚至是迷信的,或是反科学的,但在一定意义上讲,它却是医药卫生产生的土壤。
of course you don't have to be superstitious to think that.
你不用迷信也可以这么想。