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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So, according to the expectations theory augmented with liquidity preference-- This strongly upward-sloping term structure in 2003 would reflect two things.

所以,根据结合了流动性偏好的,预期理论,2003年期限结构中表现出的,强烈上扬趋势反映了两方面的因素

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Or, he doesn't say it; his autobiographical hero says it: "Any genuinely new trend in art is a knight's move, a change of shadows, a shift that displaces the mirror." Okay.

或者他没讲，他是在自传《英雄》中提到了：,“艺术上任何一个全新的趋势都是迂回前进的，是一种影子的改变，一个转移镜子的变化“

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This is, of course, disputable. There is a kind of a vogue recurrently in the history of fiction for a kind of miraculous sense that this is just exactly the way things are.

这个，当然，是有讨论余地的，这是一个趋势,循环地在小说历史中出现，为了一种不可思议的理由,说事情就是这样的。

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You can see that in all these countries real estate prices didn't show much trend until recently and now they all have real estate booms.

由图表中可见,这三个国家的,地产价格一直没有明显趋势,只是近年来才出现繁荣

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We also need some measure of-- We've been talking here about measures of central tendency only and in finance we need, as well, measures of dispersion, which is how much something varies.

我们也需要其他的指标,目前为止,我们只讨论了集中趋势指标,在金融学中,我们同样需要,离散趋势指标以衡量参数的变化程度

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The problem that's been revealed in finance literature is that there's an uncanny tendency for the stock price to go up after the company awards large quantities of options to its executives.

但一些金融文献中提到这样一个问题,即出现了一种诡异的趋势,一旦公司奖励了大量的股票期权给,公司管理层,之后股价就会上升

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