There was discussion about the fire and its likely cause.

对那场火灾及其可能的起因进行了讨论。

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An old bed is the most likely cause of back trouble.

旧床最有可能导致背部疾病。

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It would most likely cause insurers to redesign plans to fall beneath the threshold.

这极有可能导致保险公司重新设计保险计划，使其计划低于门槛。

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Another likely cause is a problem within the body's defenses against disease, when the defenses misunderstand signals and attack the body.

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We should be able to use nucleus accumbens activation to predict the people that are more likely to take risks, cause they see the upside of that risky proposition more.

我们会利用伏隔核的活动,来预测那些更喜欢冒险的人的选择，因为他们往往能从风险中发现机遇。

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The more salient you make the cause of the arousal, the less likely you'll get the effect but you can see even in experiments where the cause of the arousal is somewhat obvious, at least to us, you can still get a misattribution effect.

我们越突现觉醒原因，越不可能获得那个效果,但是，你看到，在实验中,有时性觉醒的原因显而易见，至少对于我们而言，能发现时错觉。

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It said the likely cause of infection was a contaminated agent used to cut the heroin.

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According to Rio mayor Eduardo Paes, faulty construction is the likely cause of the accident.

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And that, the company added, would likely cause the company to file for bankruptcy.

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