They may only have a limited amount of time to get their points across.

他们可能只有有限的时间来阐述清楚他们的观点。

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He points out that climate data obtained from slow-growing corals around the Pacific indicate a series of unusually frequent El Ninos around the time of the Lapita expansion.

他指出，从环太平洋缓慢生长的珊瑚中获得的气候数据表明，在拉皮塔扩张时期，厄尔尼诺现象曾频繁爆发，这很不寻常。

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Why use story points instead of units of time such as hours?

为什么要使用描述点，而不是小时之类的时间单位？

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They're the result of millions of individual decisions at millions of points in time.

他说,"这些疾病是每时每刻,由每个人所作的决定导致的

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You also do walking meditation, you can do mantra meditation, you can do all sorts of meditations that can be seen as a step towards maintaining the state of mindfulness at all points of your daily life, which is impossible unless you're a monk for a very long time.

还有行禅，曼怛罗冥想，你可以进行各种冥想修行,都可被视为正迈向,在日常生活的每时每刻,保持警醒，这几乎不可能实现,除非你是修行多年的僧侣。

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The Dow Jones average rose above 14, 000 for the first time since the financial crisis and is now within 160 points of its all time high of 14, 164.53 hit on October 9, 2007.

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Playing against the might of the U.S. -- this time dubbed the "Redeem Team" following the disappointment of Athens 2004 -- he scored 22 points in 18 minutes of court time.

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Two weeks before Hoffa's disappearance in 1975, federal investigators discovered that hundreds of millions of dollars had been stolen from the Teamsters' largest pension fund, Time magazine points out in its list of the top 10 most famous disappearances.

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