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5. Crossing your fingers to wish for good luck交叉手指期盼好运One theory of this is that during the Hundred Years War between France and England, archers would cross their fingers before pulling the bow string in order to grant them good luck. Before that, it was also a secret sign between members of Christianity (when it was illegal).
一种说法是：在法英百年战争时，弓箭手在拉弓前会交叉手指以示好运。在此之前，这也是基督教徒之间的暗号（当时这样做是违法的）。
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（应该……不是这样的交叉手指吧）
6. Never take the third light from a match, it's bad luck.不能用同一根火柴点3次火In World War I, snipers sometimes operated at night. Their technique involved waiting for someone to strike a match to light a cigarette; on spotting the light they'd train a scope on them. On the second light, the sniper would focus his shot, zooming in ready for the kill, on the third light, he would fire, killing the person who lit the match.
在一战期间，狙击手通常在夜晚作案。他们的作案技巧就是等有人点烟。第一次点烟时狙击手可以确定方位；点第二根时狙击手瞄准准备射*；点第三根烟时，他就开火将点火之人打死。
（事实证明“事不过三”在哪儿都适用，古人诚不欺我！）
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7. Walking underneath a ladder is widely held to be bad luck.从梯子下走不吉利'Walking under a ladder' came about in England a few centuries ago when people drank more ale at lunch than ate food. Drunken sign painters were likely to dump a bucket of paint if you walked by or under their ladder and handymen would drop tools.
“从梯子下走不吉利”来源于英国几个世纪前发生的事。在午餐喝了过多的麦芽酒而没吃多少食物之后，当有人路过梯子或是从梯子下走，喝醉了的画家们可能会将他们的油漆桶倒下去，杂务工要是喝醉了可能会将自己的工具丢下去。
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8. Broken mirror will result in seven years bad luck.破碎的镜子意味着之后7年的厄运Breaking a mirror is bad luck because at one time mirrors were very expensive. If a palace maid broke a mirror she was sentenced to 7 years in prison.
打破镜子被人为十分不吉利，因为镜子曾经是很昂贵的。如果皇宫里的一名女佣打破了镜子，她将被判处7年牢狱。
