"You may agree or not with Islamists trends, as long as they are against violence and are playing the political game, we have to talk to them."

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But you actually need to keep a few caveats in mind as you do this, which is the fact that trends predict a lot of chemical properties, but they can't predict everything in terms of biological properties.

不过在你使用的过程中,需要牢记一些注意事项,那就是元素周期律可以预言很多化学性质，但是不能预言一切性质,比如生物学性质。

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As I told you, on the first day, I do look at trends.

我告诉你，第一天开始我看重的是趋势。

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So this is, in effect, the backdrop in which in the American academy--influenced, - as we'll now see, by certain trends in the British academy-- arose in the thirties and in the forties.

所以实际上,这就是当时美国学术界，受英国学术界影响-,在三四十年代崛起的背景。

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