It doesn't, in other words, derive from an antecedent single cause as an effect.

换句话说，它不是，作为结果来自单一的先行的原因。

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So, practitioners who understood what we would know to be chemistry were highly valued in that society. And then, you may expand it to other chemical processes, dyeing of cloth, glassmaking, and metals extraction.

所以，理解我们所知为化学的,先行者们，在那个社会是,非常宝贵的，当时，你可能将其扩展到另一个化学过程，如布料的染色，玻璃的制造，还有金属提取。

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It's a pre-req for the class, right?

这写可都是博弈论的先行课啊

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