This trend makes it harder for Democrats and Republicans in Congress to compromise and find common ground, says Georgetown University expert Stephen Wayne.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

if we think about electronegativity as a periodic trend we can just draw our nice periodic table here, and let's separate it into quadrants.

如果我们来思考一下电负性的周期性规律,我们可以把我们漂亮的周期表画在这，然后把它分成四个象限。

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Or, he doesn't say it; his autobiographical hero says it: "Any genuinely new trend in art is a knight's move, a change of shadows, a shift that displaces the mirror." Okay.

或者他没讲，他是在自传《英雄》中提到了：,“艺术上任何一个全新的趋势都是迂回前进的，是一种影子的改变，一个转移镜子的变化“

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It is just an extension and an outgrowth of a very dangerous trend that we have seen in our country over the last few years."

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

And I also wanted you to identify why, it's also important to understand why we have these trends, not just to memorize the trend itself.

而且我还需要大家判断原因是什么，这很重要，对于我们理解,为什么有这些规律，仅仅记住这些规律是不够的。

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"I think that Egypt, since it represents a moderate trend in the region, adopts dialogue as a method, as a tool to deal with the world,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

I think it's a trend around the world that we're going to see more and more mutual funds and I think it's a good thing.

我认为共同基金,在全世界范围内的普及是个趋势,而且我觉得这也是件好事

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"We know that it is a risk factor but we can't attribute the rise in autism to the shifting trend towards having children later in life."

VOA: standard.2010.02.10

But whether that's an aberration, or that it's a new trend is still too early to say right now whether we're a new growing trend or not.

但究竟这是意外现象，还是一股新趋势,要下定论现在还为时尚早,我们还无法确定这是不是新趋势。

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But it is vitally important that we reverse that trend."

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

Often what you'll see is not a table based on this definition, but something that's called the Pauling definition of electronegativity, but it's exactly the same idea and the same trend as this more numerical way to think about what the meaning of electronegativity is.

通常你看到的表格一般都不是基于这种定义的，而是基于,鲍林定义的电负性，但在意义上是相同的，并且满足同样的周期性规律,当和这种这种更数值化地理解电负性的定义,作对比时。

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So it looks like we're generally following our trend, that's a good thing.

因此看起来它们大体上是符合我们的规律的，这是件好事。

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