But Fraser says information technology specialists may have a tendency to focus on the technology and not see things from the user's point of view.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

There's plainly a tendency in modern literary theory to reduce all the tropes of rhetoric to just these two terms.

在现代文学理论中有一个很明显的趋势,那就是减少一切华丽的辞藻，只保留这两个。

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Alexander took this tendency of syncretism, of mixing together different religious traditions from different places, and he used it as a self-conscious propaganda technique.

于是亚历山大利用宗教融合，即把不同地区的不同宗教传统融合，作为有意为之的宣传工具。

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"It's physiological and it's emotional." "Physiologically,we have a tendency when we come into a situation that seems dangerous we get a lot of chemicals flowing through our bodies to help us stay alert, to be able to act if we need to act.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

Geoffrey Hartman's theory had a similar tendency to align the poem with a kind of a religious orthodoxy.

哈特曼的理论有着相似的趋势,给这首诗附加上一种宗教上的正统思想。

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Relative to the whole market, It's well known that over periods of multiple decades the market has a tendency to go up.

是和整个市场相关的对吗，我们都知道经过几十年的时间周期,市场会有上涨的倾向。

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So the total number of shares is almost-- the tendency to do splits is a cultural thing; it's of no real significance.

所以股票总数几乎是个,这种分割的趋势是文化使然,没有实际的意义

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When you're quadrupling in size in terms of people, there's always a tendency.

当公司需要将员工规模扩大为四倍时，许多公司会降低标准，但马克不会心慈手软。

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So this could be summarized as the law of effect, which is a tendency to perform an action's increased if rewarded, weakened if it's not.

这种行为上的变化被称之为效果律，也就是说，行为倾向随奖励而增加，随惩罚而减少。

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What bothers Socrates most about our democracy is a certain kind of instability, its tendency to be pulled between extremes of anarchy, between lawlessness and tyranny.

苏格拉底对我们民主最感困扰的是,不稳定性，倾向于失序两端,拉扯的特性，即介于目无法纪与专制之间。

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We got used to hearing it that way, so it's kind of-- every time, you know, Schumann wants to write about the merry farmer-- But every time Chopin wants to write a funeral march-- And there's a tendency also-- minor low, major high, kind of thing.

我们早已习惯听到这种模式,因此它算...,要知道,每次,舒曼想写关于快乐的农夫的曲子,而肖邦总要写葬礼进行曲,还有一种趋向,小调低沉,大调高昂之类的

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Central tendency is a measure of the center of a probability distribution of the-- Central tendency is a measure-- Variance is a measure of how much things change from one observation to another.

集中趋势用以描述,一组概率分布的中心,集中趋势...,而方差衡量的是,各个观察值之间的变化

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