The effect of direction does not lie in what the director says, but in what effect has been created on the people who are directed.

衡量导向的效果不在于导向者说了些什么，而在于它对被导向者产生了什么样的影响，导向的效果只能从被导向者的反应中才能表现出来。

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The approach takes into account not only the effect of direction of seismic wave propagation but also the effect of deformation of the foundation rock through which the waves pass.

该法不仅考虑到地震波传播方向，而且还考虑到坝基基岩变形对堤坝动力反应的影响。

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The testimony which he saw for the first time had a profoundly devastating effect on him and led to the change of direction in this trial.

那个他第一次看到的证词对他有着深远的毁灭性的效果，并且最终改变了审判的方向。

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The practical effect of such a policy direction is to eschew the steps called for by the Strategic Posture Commission and, indeed, the recommendations of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, the commander of Strategic Command, General Kevin Chilton and the director of the National Nuclear Security Administration, Thomas D'Agostino.

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Most of it is, of course, radiated back into space. (It is the partial blocking of this radiation by gases such as carbon dioxide that causes the much-talked-of greenhouse effect.) Some of it, however, goes in the opposite direction, into the ground.

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Wars also cause an excessive focus on what the competitor is doing and, in effect, allow that competitor to dictate the direction of the firm engaging in that war.

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