It was a time of rapid changes in American society.

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In that case, we understand it as a sequence of cross-sections rather than something that somehow organically changes through time.

这样，我们就是在学习一个个语言的横截面,而不是语言自然的变化过程。

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It was the first time a country had taken action on that, so these are very positive public health changes.

这是第一次国家政府对此采取措施,这都是些对大众健康很有益的改变

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Your mortgage payment is constant through time but the fraction of it that goes to paying off principal versus interest changes through time and it just changes as dictated by this formula.

抵押贷款每月还款是固定的,但是其中本金和利息的比例关系,会随时间而改变,这是由这个公式所决定的

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I'm not sure how much this gonna be covered in the course, but I'm very interested in the way films are recieved by audience and the shock value that film can have be acceptable in film and through time how it changes.

我不知道这门课,会多大程度上和这个话题相关，但是我对此,电影被观众接受的方式和带给观众的冲击,和电影是如何随着时间不断变化的,很感兴趣。

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