There is a slow drift into crisis.

有一种渐入危机的趋势。

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Resetting the center position can create a jump movement upon tilt past a threshold, but is preferable in many applications to a slow drift or unknown initial state.

如果重设中心位置，那么在倾斜超过阈值后将产生一个跳跃的移动，但是在多数应用程序中，缓慢的移动或未知的初始状态比较可取。

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Triceratops is the most famous of these herding dinosaurs but as the continents continue their slow drift apart all different species evolved... all with their own Elizabethan-type frills and horns.

当然了，你可以只按字面意思理解。三角龙是这类群居恐龙中最著名的，但随着大陆继续缓慢的分离漂移，所有不同的物种都在进化，都有着伊丽莎白时代样式的褶皱和角。

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You can see from the plot that the pattern is a sudden jump and then a slow drift downward.

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Writing in the journal Nature, Kate Spence shows that the orientation errors of earlier and later pyramids faithfully track the slow drift of Kochab and Mizar with respect to true north.

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