Each correct prediction is worth a set number of points, with the value for correct picks increasing in each successive round.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

Successive approximation, Newton-Raphson was one nice example, but there's a whole class of things that get closer and closer, reducing your errors as you go along.

逐渐逼近,牛顿迭代是一个很好的例子,随着你不断的时行下去,你会不断的离结果越来越近，逐渐地减少误差。

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I keep referring those successive parts back to a sense of the whole which changes as a result of knowing more and more and more parts.

我继续将剩下的局部,与整体联系,然后知道越来越多的局部。

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Since then, the Muslim majority nation of 150 million people has struggled to overcome endemic poverty and a legacy of coups and other violent attempts to oust successive governments.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

In the Ancient Near East, destroyed cities tended to be leveled, and then a new city would just be built on top of the ruins, Tell Dor each one of those is called a tell These are mounds which represent the successive layers of destroyed and rebuilt cities.

在古代近东地区，被摧毁的城市一般较平坦，那么新城就可以建于废墟之上，这些土丘被称作“退尔“你们也许听过,这些就是小土丘,它们代表着一层层被摧毁又重建的城市。

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It's not necessarily chronological, but at the same time it gives you a sense of successive metaphysical philosophers thinking about first causes, origins, and about whatever it is that determines everything else.

这不一定是按时间顺序排列的，但同时,它会给你一种感觉那就是，一位又一位形而上学哲学家,思考原动力，起源，思考到底是什么觉定了其他的一切。

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It is a bleeding or spilling into successive signs in such a way that it perpetually leaves what Derrida calls "traces." That is to say, as we examine the unfolding of a speech act, we see the way in which successive signs are contaminated.

它渗入或涌入一系列符号之中,并且永恒地留下了德里达所说的，“痕迹“，也就是说，如果我们研究言语行为，我们就能看到连续的符号被污染的方式。

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