Libya's fate is hard to predict but the economic uncertainties boil down to a hoary question: how much is Saudi Arabia, the linchpin of OPEC, the oil-exporters' cartel, able and willing to pump?

利比亚的命运很难预料，但经济的不确定性提出了一个老问题：沙特阿拉伯(石油输出国组织opec的核心)到底愿意增产多少？

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The question now, she says, is whether seismologists can do anything with her research to try to predict the next big one.

她认为现在重要的是那些地震学家们是不是该做点什么，用她的研究尝试预报下一次大地震。

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Their statistical analysis hoped to reveal through a standard causality test based on the statistical question of asking whether past reported happiness levels could predict levels of aid offered.

他们的统计分析希望通过一个标准的因果关系实验揭示这一点，这个实验是建立在征询过去所报告的幸福感水平是否能够预测提供援助水平这个问题答案的基础上的。

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So the question is, "What do you mean by predict the future?

所以问题在于,什么叫预测未来

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The European Commission has not conducted a proper impact assessment of the legislation in question, but the British government and independent experts predict that it could have a devastating effect on European food production.

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The thing is, the CBO report in question, issued in August of 2010, most certainly does not predict the loss of 650, 000 jobs.

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