It was a close finish , as they had predicted.

正如他们所预料的，比赛结果难分上下。

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She predicted (that) the election result would be close.

她预言选举结果将很接近。

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Meteorologists have predicted mild rains for the next few days.

气象学家们已经预测接下来的几天有小雨。

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This year's federal deficit is already predicted to be the highest in relation to the economy since World War Two.

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But what's interesting with these cases is you couldn't have predicted ahead of time that they would be heroes.

但这些例子所表明的就是,你不可能提前预知,他们会成为英雄

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I'm going to try and predict what the value is going to be. And then see if, indeed, I get what I predicted.

我会去预测结果值应该是怎么样的,并去看看它是不是，跟我预期的相同。

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The Iraqi government has spent far less on rebuilding than the U.S. had predicted.

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The challenge was devising a test that accurately simulated something relevant to the behavior being predicted.

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Employers added an estimated 165, 000 workers in April, a higher figure than most economists predicted.

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