tempt fate

基本解释

To avoid tempting fate, you must perform tasks like these on a different thread, or at least not on the main UI thread.
为了避免冒险，您必须在不同的线程上执行任务，或者至少不在主 UI 线程上执行。
Some of Bear Stearns's more superstitious traders even objected to the strategy's name: They were tempting fate by invoking chaos.
有些迷信的交易员甚至抵制这一策略的名字：引起“混沌”就是拿命运冒险。
But HP is surely tempting fate by appointing a fourth outside CEO (or near-outsider, given that she has spent a few months on the board).
但是惠普冒不必要的险任命第四个外部人作为首席执行官（或者说是近外部人，考虑到她花费几个月在董事局）。

If there is any truth to this matter of a Facebook smartphone, it may be more likely that Facebook tempting fate with some sort of licensing scenario.
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If you add the mystery of Clapham Common to the legacy of back-to-basics, you begin to think that the government is tempting fate by sticking to its plans to publish a consultative paper on the family next week.
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