"Memorial should not dictate to us what we do in our own time, off the time clock."

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

And there are various forces that play in the nucleus that will dictate when this will be stable and when it won't be.They isolated it, but it decays very quickly on the order of microseconds Lifetime on the order of microseconds.

在原子核中有很多种力,都会产生作用，当条件是稳定的,还有当它不是的时候，它们提取出来，但是它会以微秒的速度衰变,生命只有几微秒长。

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They're the ones who would seek out high fat, high sugar diets because then they would get calories to seek out a variety of food, to eat in--eat above what immediate hunger might dictate.

这些人追求高脂高糖饮食,以获得足够能量,继而寻找更多种食物,饥饿驱使他们吃可以迅速果腹的食品

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In what he called a departure from the Bush administration, Brennan said President Obama strongly believes that the United States can no longer let the "war on terror" dictate the nation's international agenda.

VOA: standard.2009.08.06