Top-down processing is an example of when you know what something is you hear it that way.

举例来说,自上而下加工就是,当你知道某句话是什么的时候,你便会按照这句话去听

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So, I will be talking about the overhand stroke, which I find it easier to grasp.

所以我还是假设他们的攻击方式,是自上而下的吧,这样比较容易理解

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So, top-down processing affects how we hear things, usually, almost always, for the better.

所以,自上而下加工几乎总是,会往好的方向影响我们的理解

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This is important because this molecule here, deoxyribose, is not the same upside down as it is - it's not symmetrical upside down and right side up, it's different because the 5' carbon's either pointed up or pointed down.

这很重要,因为对脱氧核糖来说,不都是像这样自上而下的,不是对称的自上向下或全部向上的,长链不同是由于,5'碳向上或者向下的指向不同

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A guy named Seth Klarman, who works at a fund in Boston called Baupost, said that what he does is worries top-down and invests bottom-up.

他叫塞斯·克拉曼,在波士顿的Baupost基金工作,他说他的工作就是自上而下地担心,自下而上地投资

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And this is extremely useful when it comes to filling in gaps in sounds.

当需要在声音中填入间隔时,自上而下加工是非常有效的

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And it sounds to many people who do top-down interpretation as to me as well, that "She's the kind of girl you read about in Newsweek magazine."

很多进行自上而下解释的人,也包括我,都将它听为,"她是你在《新闻周刊》杂志上,所读到的女孩"

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And in fact, this is a theme we're going to return to next class when we talk about vision because the same thing is going to happen there.

实际上,我们下节课讲视觉的时候,还会再来讲讲这个主题,因为自上而下加工也会出现在视觉活动中

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Now, this top-down...this is known as "Top-down" Processing.

这就是"自上而下"的加工

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What I was going to say is that you could, at least theoretically, strike with your spear in a overhand manner or you could strike with it in an underhand manner, the only thing is I don't know how you do that underhand when you're in the middle of a phalanx.

我要说的是,士兵们能够,至少从理论上来说,可以自上而下地刺矛,也可以这样自下而上地刺矛,我不太清楚在方阵中,士兵们怎么能够自下而上地刺矛

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