Talk to anyone who's a generation or two older, and they would most likely comment that children are more spoiled these days.

和年长一代或两代的人交谈，他们很可能会说现在的孩子更娇惯了。

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Impossible to pull off, but worth considering: what if we skipped a growth cycle in the population and everyone in a generation had just two kids?

让我来设想一下这个不可能实现的事吧：如果我们跳过人口增长的规律让每一个同代人都有两个孩子会怎样？

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"Each individual grows and divides into two, and that process keeps going on generation after generation, thousand after thousand years, millions after million years."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

If you have two different ligands stimulating two different receptors, and one causes activation of this enzyme and generation of cyclic AMP, cyclic AMP levels will start to rise.

如果有两种不同的配体,刺激不同的受体,一种能够活化酶,并促进生成cAMP,cAMP的水平就会升高

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And things have changed over the last generation or two.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

Of the three console makers ( Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony), only two will survive this console generation and still they will be forced to make a strategic shift away from gaming to become an entertainment hub in the home.

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When the money inevitably runs out, states will retain permanently larger obligations and lose budget autonomy for a generation or two as health care crowds out other priorities like education and roads.

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Over the past two centuries, and even more over the past generation, the developmental timing of these two systems has changed.

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