It had a built-in tendency to produce ever larger booms and busts, and over the longer term it was bound to destroy itself.

其内在趋势能产生更大的繁荣和萧条，但是从长远来说它注定毁于其自身。

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This tendency in his thought is deepened by his suspicion of all Utopian political programmes.

他思想中这种倾向因他对所有乌托邦政治计划的猜疑而加深。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

These plants have a tendency to grow in the more rural areas.

这些植物倾向于生长在更偏远的乡村地区。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

"There is a tendency - when it comes to changing behavior in realms where behavior change is difficult - to always favor putting it off until the future."

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Its difficulty lies in Milton's tendency in this poem to seek out what Dr. Johnson wonderfully calls remote allusions.

诗的难点在于弥尔顿想要在诗中极力追求,被约翰逊绝妙地称为不切实际的幻想的倾向。

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There's plainly a tendency in modern literary theory to reduce all the tropes of rhetoric to just these two terms.

在现代文学理论中有一个很明显的趋势,那就是减少一切华丽的辞藻，只保留这两个。

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However, there were fluctuations in this tendency which are beyond our ability to fully understand.

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This does not refer to any increase in the tendency of criminals to become politicians, or vice versa.

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In doing so, it accentuates a bandwagon tendency in Melanesian politics that is also evident in the neighbouring Solomon Islands.

ECONOMIST: To the victor go the spoils