But most have been reported in Mexico and, to a much lesser extent,the United States.

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Much as you might instruct as a human, a robot, to do something to the extent that's currently possible.

在某种程度上就像指挥人类，机器人一样，从某种意义来说对电脑也是一样的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So for example, that might have a formal charge of negative 1, because to some extent it has gained that much electron density that it now has a formal charge that's negative.

比如，可能它的形式电荷为负一，因为在一定程度上它得到了这么多的共用电子密度,那么它现在就有了负的形式电荷。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Second, it shows that it-- it weakens to some extent how much faith we can have in studies that link diet to health because of this error that gets introduced.

第二,表明了这在某种程度上消弱了,我们在研究饮食与健康之间联系时的信心,因为误差的出现

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You-- It's been a series of-- a huge controversy in the popular culture to the extent of which parents matter and this is an issue which will preoccupy us for much of the course.

你,有一系列的,关于父母在多大程度上起作用,在流行文化里是有很大争议的,我们将会在这门课里用很多的时间,来讲这个问题

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