Even such simple tasks as collecting rainwater have been nearly impossible given the poverty and devastation.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

There are certain laws such that, given that the computer's in this state, it must necessarily move in that state.

存在那样的某些定律,假定电脑处在这种状态,它一定会变为那种状态

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The clinical trial was designed such that almost two million elementary school children were given this test vaccine.

该临床试验的计划是,向近二百万的小学学生,接种这种测试疫苗

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Here in the United States, stand-alone record stores have given way to such alternatives as digital downloading which now accounts for about 20 percent of all recorded music sales.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

When you've got a view about cause and effect that works this way-- for everything that happens, there's some earlier thing that caused it to happen such that given that earlier cause, the event had to follow-- that's a deterministic picture.

当你认为因和果,是以这种方式互相作用的,对于所发生的一切,总有些事先发生,然后它们导致这些事发生,于是一旦给定了前因,这些后果必定会接着发生,这是一个决定论的图景

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