In nearly every startup that fails, the proximate cause is running out of money.

几乎每场失败的创业都是直接因为资金断档造成的。

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This chain of reasoning, though, provides only what workers in the field call a proximate cause.

然而，这一连串的推理只是提辨了该领域的研究人员所说的最有可能的一个原因。

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Usually there is something deeper wrong. But even a proximate cause of death is worth trying hard to avoid.

当然其中可能有很多深层次的原因，但是这个最的直接原因是我们应该努力避免的。

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There seemed to be no single proximate cause of the sell-off in Greek bonds.

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That is because it scuppered plans to add an inspection protocol (the proximate cause of the near punch-up in 2001).

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There were additional large tax increases in 1936 and 1937 that were the proximate cause of the economy's relapse in 1937.

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