So Mr Whitman's findings are more probabilities than rules.
所以惠特曼的发现与其说是规则，不如说是可能。
Now, these index-limitation guidelines are more rules of thumb than rules to live by.
现在，这些索引限制指南已经成为首要规则，而不仅仅是指南而已。
A third reason law is about more than rules is that sometimes there are several rules to choose from.
法律不止是规则的第三个原因是有时有多个规则可以选择。
But our computations are often disturbed by a great many circumstances beyond our reach, so much that we are governed more by exceptions than rules.
但是我们如果要预测天气的变化，常常会遇到许多复杂情况的困扰，这些多变的复杂情况超出了我们所能掌握的一般原理，所以我们必须对这些复杂多变的因素给予更多的关注。
So protean are its forms and so varied its features that even specialist prognoses of aggressiveness, invasion and response to treatment have typically generated more exceptions than rules.
它的种类千变万化，特征形形色色，就连专科医生对其是否有蔓延性和侵袭性都无法确诊；而且它对治疗的反应也无规律可循，常常出人意料。
The rules which the banks had agreed to observe made the opening of numbered accounts subject to much closer scrutiny than before.
银行同意遵守的规定使得开立编号账户受到比以前更严格的审查。
You can argue that learning another language well is more taxing than, say, learning to play chess well—it involves sensitivity to a set of complicated rules, and also to context.
你可能会说，学好另一门语言比学下好国际象棋要费力得多，它涉及到对一套复杂规则的敏感性，以及对环境的敏感性。
The lighter rules that typically govern bed-and-breakfasts are more than adequate.
那些管理住宿和早餐的一般宽松规定就已经足够了。
It is usually easier to follow rules of social behaviour than to depend on one's own taste.
遵循社会行为准则通常比依靠自己的品味更容易。
There was no clear explanation for the delay in the handover of the suspects to police, other than it involved rules between Washington and Tokyo covering U.S. forces and their dependents in Japan.
除了华盛顿与东京之间协定的关于驻日美军及其家属的相关条款外，对于为何延迟将嫌疑人移交给警方，尚未给出明确的解释。
In my view, children need clear rules, but more than that they need to learn how to get on with other people and realize they are not the center of the world.
在我看来，孩子们需要明确的规则，但更多的是他们需要学会如何与他人相处，并意识到他们不是世界的中心。
Even if these conditions are hard to meet in practice, fiscal constraints are often more useful than no rules at all.
即使这些条件在实践中都难以实现，但有财政约束往往总比没有任何规则要好。
Rick knew more about the rules than anyone else. Those of us who were working the delegations were on the floor, following instructions from the trailer.
里克在规则方面比任何人知道得都要多，我们这些负责说服代表团的人在会议现场，接受来自竞选总部的指令。
The implementation of these rules is a little simpler than the implementation of the rules for assigning tests, but I find them a little more interesting, for four reasons.
这些规则的实现比用于分配测试的规则的实现要略微简单一些，但我发现它们更有趣一些，原因有四。
The commission's second big suggestion is that Banks should carry more capital than the new international rules require.
委员会的第二大提议是银行应当拿出比新的国际规则所需的更多的资金。
European Banks now face stricter rules on pay than American ones, for example.
例如，欧洲银行如今面临的工资支付规则比美国银行的更为严格。
Fiscal adjustments persisted for nearly two years longer in countries that had rules than in those without them.
那些制定规则的国家的财政调整比不制定国家多持续了将近两年。
One of ICANN's rules — than no domains that are "confusingly similar" will be allowed — could actually complicate matters on that front.
一个ICANN的规则——任何“易混淆相似的”域名都不会被允许——表面看来，这样事实上可能将问题复杂化。
More important than asking questions is establishing ground rules.
其实制订一些基本规则远比问问题重要。
But collating rules for languages other than English can be complex.
但是除英语之外的其他语言的排序规则可能会非常复杂。
The competitive landscape gets altered because the Internet allows insurgents to play by different rules than incumbents.
商业版图得以改变是因为互联网使得新竞争者能够不遵守传统的游戏规则。
What bothers them, though, is the growing sense that there's a special class of people who get to live by a different set of rules than everyone else.
不过令他们感到困扰的是，他们越来越感觉到，有一类人成功靠的却是不同于其他人的游戏规则。
Of course, you'll see more exceptions to the attribute rules than to other rules.
当然和其他规则相比，属性规则有更多的例外。
First, principles are better than detailed rules, which can be gamed.
首先，原则比细则好，因为银行可以用对策来绕过细则。
The remedy would be new broad-based rules rather than just renminbi revaluation.
这一方案将是拥有方法基础的新规则，而并非仅仅针对人民币估值。
The FSA has won plaudits for an approach based more on principles than hard rules.
FSA因为更依赖于原则而不是硬性规则而赢得喝彩。
He weaves most of this into the narrative rather than defining abstract rules.
他将这些东西编进叙述中，而不是定义抽象的规则。
He weaves most of this into the narrative rather than defining abstract rules.
他将这些东西编进叙述中，而不是定义抽象的规则。
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