The struggle over the minimum wage reflects a gradual shift, not a sudden one.

围绕最低工资的斗争反映了一种渐进而非突然的转变。

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"It was not a sudden discovery but a gradual realisation," the scientists wrote.

科学家在研究报告中写道：“这不是突然发现的，而是逐渐意识到的。”

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The process that Cowen describes would produce a gradual bend in the curve of progress, not the sudden change in slope that actually occurred.

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Though Mr Shoemaker's career was diverse, it had a central theme: that some of the main events in the solar system's history were not gradual changes, as scientists once supposed, but sudden, violent catastrophes.

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In contrast to the housing crash, the risk from student debt is not of a sudden explosion in losses but of gradual financial suffocation.

ECONOMIST: Student loans