Language has structures going from the bottom to the top.

语言拥有自下而上的结构

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What I was going to say is that you could, at least theoretically, strike with your spear in a overhand manner or you could strike with it in an underhand manner, the only thing is I don't know how you do that underhand when you're in the middle of a phalanx.

我要说的是,士兵们能够,至少从理论上来说,可以自上而下地刺矛,也可以这样自下而上地刺矛,我不太清楚在方阵中,士兵们怎么能够自下而上地刺矛

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A guy named Seth Klarman, who works at a fund in Boston called Baupost, said that what he does is worries top-down and invests bottom-up.

他叫塞斯·克拉曼,在波士顿的Baupost基金工作,他说他的工作就是自上而下地担心,自下而上地投资

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