Some climate scientists think the Australian continent is particularly susceptible to a shifting climate and predict a greater incidence of droughts, floods and storms as the Earth warms.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

And what we predict as an energy difference between two levels, we know should correspond to the energy of light that's either emitted, if we're giving off a photon, or that's absorbed if we're going to take on a photon and jump from a lower to a higher energy level.

我们预测，两个能级之间的能量差，我们知道，它要么和发出的光有关,如果它发出光子的话，要么它吸收光子,从低能级跃迁到，更高能级上去。

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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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Officials also still not have released any figures for voter turnout, which observers predict may be as low as 10 percent in areas where the Taliban insurgency is active.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

So as to predict that location.

我们就能做到，要预知位置。

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And,this constant movement of population also affects the humanitarian workers as it makes the planning and the delivery of aid much more difficult because we cannot predict where the people are going or if they are coming back."

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

And we turned to a discussion of the unpredictability of death, -- the fact that because we don't know-- we can't predict--how much more time we've got, we may, as it were, pace ourselves incorrectly.

我们转而讨论死亡的不可预测性，因为我们不知道-,我们不能预测--我们还有多少时间，我们可能，可以说是，为自己定错了前进的速度。

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"Those are the complaints that we are actually dealing with at this point in time." VOA News asked Kippen if the on-site investigations of massive ballot box stuffing and other acts of election fraud will take weeks or,as some predict, months to complete.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15