The wrong kind of leadership will lead to what Cialdini calls "captainitis, the regrettable tendency of team members to opt out of team responsibilities that are properly their."

错误的领导方式会导致西奥迪尼所说的“队长病”，即团队成员选择逃避本应属于他们的团队责任，这是一种令人遗憾的倾向。

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Further observation revealed the tendency of teachers to evaluate events rather than review the contributory factors in a considered manner by, in effect, standing outside the situation.

进一步的观察表明，实际上教师们倾向于站在情况外来评估事件，而不是以一种深思熟虑的方式来审视促成因素。

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The tendency of events is towards peace.

大势趋向和平。

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Professor Yoshino explains. "Shakespeare calls this a problem of ocular proof, the idea that we need to see evidence before we believe in it -- and that,oftentimes, when metaphysical questions of guilt or innocence are difficult for us to answer, we have a tendency to reduce them to questions that pertain to physical evidence.

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Alexander took this tendency of syncretism, of mixing together different religious traditions from different places, and he used it as a self-conscious propaganda technique.

于是亚历山大利用宗教融合，即把不同地区的不同宗教传统融合，作为有意为之的宣传工具。

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There's plainly a tendency in modern literary theory to reduce all the tropes of rhetoric to just these two terms.

在现代文学理论中有一个很明显的趋势,那就是减少一切华丽的辞藻，只保留这两个。

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Yet one thing is not new: the tendency of investors to veer off into irrational exuberance.

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And one should never underestimate the tendency of a U.S. CEO to get rid of workers.

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They regularly decry the tendency of poor Filipinos to vote for scoundrels based on name recognition.

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