I confess I enter this in a skeptical frame of mind, believing that we tend to get carried away in our desire to reduce everything to the quantifiable.

我承认我是抱着怀疑的态度来看待这个问题的，我相信我们往往会被自己想要把所有事情都减少到可以量化的欲望冲昏头脑。

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Overall, organic farms tend to store more soil carbon, have better soil quality, and reduce soil erosion compared to their conventional counterparts.

总体而言，与传统农场相比，有机农场往往会存储更多的土壤碳，土壤更优质，并减少土壤侵蚀。

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Tendencies uncovered by social psychology, traceable to Freud, which tend to reduce all cognition to affect, are at the other extreme.

而在另一个极端，则是由可追溯到弗洛伊德的社会心理学所揭示的倾向，则似乎要把一切认知都归到情感上来。

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Linear algorithms tend to be things where, at one pass-through, you reduce the problem by a constant amount by one. If you reduce it by two, 1 it's going to be the same thing.

有问题么？,线性复杂度的算法，当进行了一个,常量级步数的操作的时候，将问题的规模缩小了一个。

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That relationship means that, other things being equal, increases in Fed assets tend to increase bank reserves while increases in other Fed liabilities tend to reduce bank reserves.

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The possibly sharp increase in nominal interest rates would tend to reduce demand for base money.

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They also tend to reduce wage disparities between age groups and sexes, since low-paid workers are often young or female.

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