At home he would salve, if not close, the ugly racial wound left by America’s history and lessen the tendency of American blacks to blame all their problems on racism.

在他的家乡即使不能够根除美国历史造成的种族主义伤害，奥巴马也可以一定程度的安抚创伤并且减缓美国黑人将所有问题归咎于种族主义的趋势。

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There is some inherited tendency to develop type 1 diabetes, but it is only a tendency, and actually most people (90%) who develop this disease do not have close relatives with it.

1型糖尿病有些遗传倾向，但它只是一种倾向，实际上大多数得这个病的人(90%)近亲中并没有得糖尿病的。

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This statistic indicates that drivers have a tendency to drive incautiously when they are close to home, probably because familiar surroundings give them a false sense of security.

这一统计数字表明驾驶员在离家近的时候有不谨慎驾驶的倾向，可能是因为周围熟悉的环境给了他们一种错误的安全感。

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They have a disproportionate tendency to be living close enough to the edge to be eligible for food stamps, Medicaid, and other government programs meant to aid low-income households.

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Motivated by my own experience of the civil service tendency to hold things close to the chest, one of the first things I did after becoming chief scientific adviser was to set out formal guidelines for handling science advice in policy making.

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Alas, the one-way arrow of political time guarantees that the tendency is for the state to expand its sphere and close off and criminalize avenues of escape rather than facilitating and nurturing them.

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