When she came to know writers it was like adventuring upon a stage which till then she had known only from the other side of the footlights.

当她同作家结识以后，她有一种感觉，仿佛过去只能隔着脚灯了望的舞台，这回却亲身登上去了。

There is not, however, a more certain proposition in mathematics, than that the more tickets you adventure upon, the more likely you are to be a loser.

然而，数学中没有比这更确定的命题了，你冒险买的票越多，你就越有可能成为失败者。

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets, the nearer you approach to this certainty.

把彩票中的所有彩票都冒险一遍，你肯定输了；你的门票数量越多，你就越接近这种确定性。