As Abernathy's study of automobile manufacturers has shown, an industry can easily become prisoner of its own investments in cost-cutting techniques, reducing its ability to develop new products.

艾伯纳西对汽车制造商的研究表明，一个行业很容易成为自己在削减成本技术上投资的俘虏，从而降低了开发新产品的能力。

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Scientists and engineers are beginning to study this ability of fishes in the hope of designing more efficient propulsion systems for ships.

科学家和工程师们开始研究鱼类的这种能力，希望能设计出更有效的船舶推进系统。

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In one study, researchers compared participants' ability to learn new words after several minutes of intense running and after 40 minutes of gentle running.

在一项研究中，研究人员比较了参与者在几分钟的高强度跑步和40分钟的慢跑后学习新单词的能力。

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The other was its ability to reduce the amount of virus in the blood of people who became infected during the study.

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The other was the vaccine's ability to reduce the amount of virus in the blood of people who became infected during the study.

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According to a longitudinal study of the top 1% in cognitive ability The Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth being in the top 1% in ability disproportionately increases the likelihood of earning a Ph.

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Undermining drivers' confidence in their ability to spot cameras, the study concluded, would reduce speed-related accidents.

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Why is it that after all our ability to study world history and human behavior in the many schools of higher learning that we have that we are so ignorant of the most obvious?

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