Murphy's law

Proper noun

An adage which states that if anything can go wrong, then it will.

Japanese Meaning

もし何かがうまくいかなくなる可能性があるなら、必ずうまくいかなくなるという教訓、あるいは諺。 / 物事は最悪の結果に向かいやすいという、悲観的な見方を示す考え方。

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I double-checked the presentation slides, but Murphy's law struck when the projector failed at the start of the meeting.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

プレゼン用のスライドは念入りに確認したが、会議の開始時にプロジェクターが故障して、まさに「何かがうまくいかないならそれは必ず起こる」というマーフィーの法則どおりになった。

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An adage which states that if anything can go wrong, then it will.

Thus we find that Murphy's Law is not a coincidence at all, but the consequence of a deep ‘anthropomurphic principle’: any universe built along conventional lines that contains intelligent polymurphs will conform to Murphy's Law.

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