1·Hacking points out that the word probability — or probable — was already in the English language.
哈金指出概率这个词，或者说可能，已经存在于英语中。
2·Hacking believes that there were many gambling theorists who invented probability theory at various times in history but never wrote it down and kept it as a secret.
哈金相信历史上有很多赌博理论家，曾多次构想了概率论，但从来没有记录下来，并且恐为人知。
3·Now this is interesting, Hacking says, because it shows that sampling theory was part of Nala's theory.
哈金说，这很有趣，抽样理论是那勒所学知识的一部分。
4·Ian Hacking, who wrote a history of probability theory, searched through world literature for any reference to a probability and could find none anywhere before 1600.
伊恩·哈金为概率论追根溯源，他查遍世界所有关于概率的文献，发现无法追溯到十七世纪以前。