He complains that the underlying approach is top-down and involves the government dictating the rules.

他抱怨说这个基本方法是自上而下的并且由政府决定规则。

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Now, it's been assumed that primates and some other mammals stood alone at the top of the hierarchy of cognitive evolution.

现在，人们默认灵长类动物和其他一些哺乳动物独自站在认知进化等级的顶端。

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He and others agree that the market cycle is at or near its top, particularly in America and Britain.

他和其他人一致认为，市场周期循环正处于或接近顶峰，尤其是在美国和英国。

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Dr.Chan says the WHO is no longer operating "at the level of top performance that is increasingly needed,and expected."

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You see that in the top picture. And within those precincts, within that enclosure, there's a large, open courtyard.

你们可以在顶上的图中看到，在界域里面，它的内部，有一片巨大空旷的庭院。

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I would say that other top schools for rowing right now are Berkeley and Washington.

现在赛艇的其他顶级学校是伯克利和华盛顿。

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Hicks said there was no demonstration and that top State Department officials had been told that, and he told the committee he was "stunned" and "embarrassed" by Rice's televised account.

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He believes that worldwide structural changes (increased mobility of capital and labour, the greater credibility of central bankers as inflation-fighters, the preference of ageing baby-boomers for fixed-income securities) have altered the equation, and that top-quality bond yields are, if anything, headed down.

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Beyond that, and beyond our insistence -- our public insistence that Republicans accept and acknowledge that rates on top earners have to go up, and accept and acknowledge that any package on the revenue side would have to include that element, I'm not going to get into the sausage-making or the internal discussions and deliberations, only because we hope that this process actually produces a positive result.

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