These policies will have some predictable effects. But the most direct and knowable effect relate to commodities.

这些政策的效果可以预测，但最直接清楚的效果莫过于日用品的价格变化。

They understand that the greatest and least predictable effect will be the melting of the polar-ice sheets and the consequent rise in sea level.

他们也明白，最大和最不可预测的影响将是极地冰盖融化和随之而来的海平面上升。

“It’s hard to do it at a specific time, ” he says. “If a cyber-attack is used as a military weapon, you want a predictable time and effect.

“在特定的时候很难办到，”他说，“如果网络攻击作为军事武器使用，你会希望得到一个可预测的时间和效果。

"It's hard to do it at a specific time," he says. "if a cyber-attack is used as a military weapon, you want a predictable time and effect."

“很难在某个特定的时间进行网络攻击，”他说，“如果网络攻击被当作军事武器，你需要预先设定时间和攻击效果。”

When we subject our Pleistocene bodies to our modern era, in which corn is cheap and animals are killed by others and safely prepared, the effect on waistlines might seem predictable.

当我们那更新世的身体来到现代时代，谷物便宜、专人宰杀动物并稳稳当当为我们准备好，可以想象我们的腰围会变得多粗了。

Here was an error that wasn't an error, but rather a predictable side effect of balancing known risks with imperfect information.

此时，错误不再是错误，而是平衡已知风险和不完整信息的副效应。

Weather is generally predictable and follows a cause and effect pattern.

天气一般是可以预测的，遵循着因果关系模式。