This results in alternating periods of quiescence and activity - remarkably like the build-up and collapse of a sand pile.

这会导致变换的静止和活动的周期-与沙堆的堆砌和崩塌非常相像。

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If you come up with activities like playing board games, or going to an art class, or any activity that allows on-to-one communication, you build your relationship.

如果你采用的是玩棋类游戏、或者参加艺术课程、或者任何允许一对一交流的活动的话，那么你就会创建联系。

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But the gradual build-up of underground pressure can lead to occasional bursts of cataclysmic activity.

但是随之逐渐增长的地面下的压力可以引起偶然性的大变动的爆发。

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So working with the government of Morocco,we are hoping to really help to see blossom a lot more economic activity at the lower levels that will then from the bottom-up build prosperity,"

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Much of the revival in deal activity reflects a build-up in the capital that firms hold.

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The idea that more brain cell activity could lead to more amyloid-beta build up is an exciting, if sobering, finding.

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It is not clear, for example, how such a large position was allowed to build up over the three-month period that the activity was said to be taking place.

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