I've been doing this job for 25 years, and I tell you you're going to stuff it up doing things this way.
我干了这工作已有25年了,告诉你,你这样做事情,会把事情办糟的。
that misfortune might overtake us if the important events of our lives were not related to it.
要是我们不把生活中的重大的事件告诉那条河,就可能大祸临头。