This top down system is more efficient at rational problem solving, but unlikely to produce any unexpected breakthroughs.

这种系统在常规性的解决问题时更有效率，但是却不太会有任何不期而遇的突破点。

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Santeria, also called Regla DE Ocha, is a slimmed-down system of beliefs that came from the Yoruba people, in what is now Nigeria.

santeria教亦称Regla de Ocha，是来自约鲁巴人(现今的尼日利亚)的一套精简版的信仰体系。

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The system was down all morning.

系统整个上午都无法运行。

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So they built a system of canals to bring water down from the mountains.

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It only helps them to bring down the cost of health care, government has to operate the system more efficiently than the market does.

它只能,降低医疗的费用，政府必须,比市场更加有效地运作。

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But they have really had a big scaling down of the mass transit system this year.

但是今年确实大幅度削减了公共交通。

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But human rights activists say it is the government that turns a blind eye to tribal justice where federal law should apply because it fills a vacuum formed by an already bogged down system.

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See, we've had a broken-down system.

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The quest to remake teachers' annual performance grades began in 2010, when the state passed a law requiring districts to jettison systems that allowed principals to judge teachers on a simple up-or-down system that critics considered arbitrary and all but useless.

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