A routine (like reading stories) can let a child know that he's headed toward bedtime and can help him slow down.

(睡前讲故事等)例行活动能让孩子意识到自己该睡觉了，可以让他安静下来。

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By limiting urban couples to a single child and most rural couples to two, China has managed to slow the growth of the world's largest population.

通过限制一对城市夫妇只准生1个小孩，绝大多数农村夫妇最多只准生2个小孩，中国作为世界人口数量最多的国家开始逐渐降低人口增速。

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Tell your child not to lean on the handrail. This can slow down the escalator and may throw other people off balance.

告诉孩子不要倚靠扶梯扶手，这样会拖慢其速度，还会导致其他人失去平衡站不稳。

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It can decrease intelligence, create behavior problems and slow a child's growth.

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It is more likely that the culture of the increasingly child-free northern tier and the slow-growth coasts will, to evoke the past, be the ones gone with the wind.

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But family members of the child said in an interview televised on NDTV that police were slow to react when they reported their daughter missing.

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But family members of the child said in an interview televised on NDTV that police were slow to react when they reported their daughter missing a charge authorities have denied.

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