To cause to happen in advance; accelerate.

使提前发生；加速，促进。

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Something that people do or cause to happen.

人们所从事或引发的事情。

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Americans are activists by nature, but "more happens to us than we cause to happen," he has found.

美国人天生是激进分子，不过“更多时候，事情是自己找上门来，而不是由我们引发。”

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I had to argue for this to happen, cause I really feel that this class isn't about me.

我来解释一下我的理由 我觉得,这门课不应该仅仅由我来讲

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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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Here's what might cause this to happen.

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But at the same time, without knowing exactly what happened, I think the President thought it would not be responsible to continue on a path that might cause -- without knowing the cause of the previous accident -- might cause something else to happen again.

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"If you try any other approach, there's a good chance that the classic machinations that happen in a legislative body will cause this not to be realized, " he said.

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