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Divine Intervention

含义：神圣的干预

可以翻译成“老天爷开眼”。这也是个在工作环境里经常能碰到的词组，意思是指要奇迹出现才能如何如何的意思。

例句：

A: This is it. We blow the deadline. Are we still going to make any money at all with this project?
B: Not without some divine intervention.

A: What happened? The exchange server crashed yesterday and the consultant said we can't rescue it and have to restore from backup. But it's now running again!
B: If Bill Gates didn't fix it silently through some backdoor, I'd say it must be some divine intervention!