So when we talk about a cohort study, this means taking a group of people and following them over time.

所以当我们提到定群研究,就意味着,有一群人参加实验并需一直追踪下去

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And I think that since this country started out with people coming over from different countries

我想既然这个国家一开始就有来自世界各国的人，

美国的移民法 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

When there's a speaker of a poem who is not to be confused with the poet himself, there is typically a framing device.

当诗歌的演说人没有被诗歌自身困惑时,这里就有一种典型的框架。

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In comes the prehensile thumb, and the next thing you know you get a colossal earthquake, and the possessor of the prehensile thumb disappears from the earth -which is to say, very possibly the human species will never develop.

就像对人类进化至关重要的大拇指，经历了一场大地震后，如果所有有这种拇指的人都消失了,那么人类就很可能永远不能进化。

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If we all have a desire to know, ? doesn't this connote something universal, that all should be free, that all should participate in ruling and being ruled as citizens of a city?

如果我们都有求知欲，这不就意味着一种普遍性吗，即所有的人都应是自由人，所有的公民应参与城市中的统治,与被统治的活动？

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And even if over a period of time the average amount of their regard is lower because they started lower and then got higher than someone who was always high, it's the ones who were first lower who then went up that capture our attention.

即使在一段时间内,他们对我们的评价依然不高,但是因为起点较低,只要是在日益改善，总比一开始就对我们评价好的人更有吸引力，正是开始低而慢慢增加的人,会引起我们的注意。

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Many of you won't be here the next day, that's what happens with shopping period, and then the third day we see how many folks we have. We do have, for those people who want to take it, a travaux diriges en francais, we have a section that's French speaking.

你们好多人明天估计就不来了,购物季就是这样,然后第三天我们就能看出,还剩多少人,我们倒是为,那些有需求的人准备了,法语授课的课程,有一章节课是法语讲的

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