Environmental systems tend to be nonlinear, and therefore not easy to predict.

环境系统一般是非线性的，所以很难预测。

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It is impossible to predict what the eventual outcome will be.

无法预测最终结果。

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Since most startups fail, I expect this commenter may be correct when he says "I predict 2007 will be the year of the dead pool".

由于大多数初创公司都失败了，我认为这位评论者说的“我预测2007年将是死亡之年”可能是正确的。

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But they turned out to be wrong, because they did not predict Norman Borlaug.

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In fact many of them have folded and I would be willing to predict that many still will not make it and will fold.

事实上很多已经失败,我很愿意预测,很多赢利网站都将会失败。

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I would be able to predict their size, because how far they moved depended on how big they were.

我还应当能估计它的大小,因为它能跑多远取决于它的大小

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Ultimately, they want to be able to predict how much might be vulnerable to temperature change and in what timescale.

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One goal will be to predict heart failure patients who are at risk of readmission and then develop protocols to help them stay out of the hospital.

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It may be difficult to predict how successful your idea will be and, if it is, how long that success will last.

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