Before his kidnapping, Uncle Slate determined that each of these critical failures was the ultimate result of a chain reaction originating in the thrusters.

在你叔叔被绑架之前，他判断出这些严重故障中的任何一个都是推进器中一个链式反应的最终结果。

Every day the universe rolls a bunch of dice for every human – and everyday, someone somewhere on this planet, rolls a critical failure and their life ends that day.

每一天，宇宙对每个人掷一堆骰子——而每天，这个星球上的某处某人骰到了致命的失误，然后他们的生命就在那天结束。

While politically and environmentally controversial would obviously go a long way to reducing Cape Town's risk of a single point of critical failure in their water supply system if the rain stops falling for years at a time again.

虽然在政治上和环境上有争议，但显然会大大减少开普敦的风险，如果再次停止降雨多年，他们的供水系统就会出现严重的关键故障点。