They reasoned that while some evolutionary changes involve the loss of genes and are therefore irreversible, others may be the result of genes being switched off.

他们推断，虽然一些进化上的变化涉及基因的丢失，因此是不可逆转的，但其他的变化可能是基因被关闭的结果。

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Back pains can be the result of bad posture.

腰背疼可能是不良姿势造成的。

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What belongs to nature cannot be the result of human activities and on the other hand, cultural development is achieved against nature.

属于自然的东西不可能是人类活动的结果，另一方面，文化的发展却是在违背自然的情况下实现的。

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As a result,he says other objects from colonial life may be under the waters of the Roanoke Sound.

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Sometimes the flood seems to be the result of very heavy rain, but in other descriptions it seems to be a real cosmic upheaval.

有人说，大洪水是大雨导致的，还有人说，是因为宇宙变动引起的。

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A bourgeois or a burgher was somebody who lived in a city and assumed that some of the justice that was levied against him or her would be the result of decisions taken locally.

布尔乔亚"意指住在城市里的居民,在他们看来依法纳税,是地方决策者强加于他们的

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Part Manti Te'o's inspirational story turned out to be the result of an elaborate hoax.

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It turned out to be the result of lung cancer that had gone to his brain.

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Being born early can sometimes be the result of insufficient prenatal care, or just bad luck.

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