在他们进行的一项研究中，每一个研究对象都被告知其他研究对象正组成一个团体——并且正在投票决定她是否能加入。

In a study they conducted, each subject was told that other subjects were forming a group-and taking a vote on whether she could join.

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拿“萨拉.佩林读了乔姆斯基最新出的书”来举例，俄语中，动词“读”可以区分她是否读完了全书，土耳其语中，通过动词“读”可以分辨出说这话的人是亲眼目睹的，是被告知的，还是猜的。

Take a sentence such as "Sarah Palin read Chomsky's latest book." In Russian, the verb would have to indicate whether the whole book was read or not.

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英国一名31岁的女子误把不可再生的垃圾倒入可回收垃圾桶，她因此被告上法庭。自英国颁布2005年新环境法以来，她是以身试法的第一人。

A 31-year-old British woman has appeared in court accused of putting the wrong sort of rubbish into her recycling bin, the first person to fall foul of new environmental legislation passed in 2005.

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