As youngsters come along, they need a period of adjustation while their control in the environment grows up.

如果是青少年，他们会需要一段适应期,以逐渐掌控所处的环境。

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And it's actually critically important to get used to things because it's a useful adaptive mechanism to keep track on new events and objects.

而习惯化实际上也是至关重要的,因为这是一种非常有用的适应机制,可以让你注意到新鲜事物。

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The history of financial innovation is always that the organizations adapt to crisis.

历史上的金融创新基本上都是,组织机构对危机的一种适应

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From this perspective, dreams serve no adaptive function at all but rather they're epiphenomena.

从这个角度看，梦境没有自我适应功能,它只是一种副现象。

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