There is a tendency to shut museums or shops at a moment's notice.

有一接到通知就关闭博物馆或商店的趋势。

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She had a tendency to sing flat.

她的唱音倾向于偏低。

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He has a tendency to oversell himself.

他爱自我吹嘘。

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Professor Yoshino explains. "Shakespeare calls this a problem of ocular proof, the idea that we need to see evidence before we believe in it -- and that,oftentimes, when metaphysical questions of guilt or innocence are difficult for us to answer, we have a tendency to reduce them to questions that pertain to physical evidence.

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There's plainly a tendency in modern literary theory to reduce all the tropes of rhetoric to just these two terms.

在现代文学理论中有一个很明显的趋势,那就是减少一切华丽的辞藻，只保留这两个。

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This refers to a tendency for people in making quantitative judgments to subconsciously have their judgments anchored by some arbitrary stimulus.

指的是,人们在做定量估测时,会受外界影响,将某些特定数值作为起始值,而起始值像锚一样制约着估测值

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Give people advice for free, and they will have a tendency to ignore it.

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Watson has a tendency to see things in their essence rather than in their particulars.

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"There's a tendency before the big day to sort of party it up, " Good said.

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