Very good guide to all your basic fortune-telling methods— palmistry, crystal balls, bird entrails.”

对你所有的基本占卜方法——看手相、水晶球、鸟类内脏——都具备很有用的指导作用。”

“I wonder why Professor Lupin's frightened of crystal balls? ” said Lavender thoughtfully.

“我不知道卢平教授为什么害怕水晶球？”拉文德沉思着说。

Modern magic being what it is, the crystal balls are actually supercomputers running programs with 1m or more lines of code.

现代魔法就是这样，水晶球其实是超级计算机，运营着拥有百万或更多代码的程序。

So, models are not crystal balls.

。 所以，模型不是水晶球。

" I thought we weren't starting crystal balls until next term, " Ron muttered, casting a wary eye around for Professor Trelawney, in case she was lurking nearby.

“我以为下学期才开始学水晶球的课呢。”罗恩咕哝道，一面用眼睛小心翼翼地搜索特里劳妮教授的身影，以防她在近旁听了去。

Yet amid the doom and gloom, venture-capital (vc) firms and entrepreneurs are already doing the thing they believe they do best: divining the future in their crystal balls.

然而尽管前途无望，风险投资公司和企业家们已经在做他们认为自己做的最好的事情：用水晶球预测未来。

The shelves running around the circular walls were crammed with dusty-looking feathers, stubs of candles, many packs of tattered playing cards, countless silvery crystal balls, and a huge array of teacups.

圆形墙壁周边都是架子，架子上放满了灰尘满面的羽饰、蜡烛头、破旧扑克牌、无数银色的水晶球和一大堆茶具。