If represented graphically, the curve for all these changes looks rather like that well-known hockey stick: with little change over millennia and a dramatic upswing over the past decades.

如果用图表进行展示的话，这些变化呈现出来的曲线很像大家熟悉的曲棍球杆：以往数千年都没什么变化，而在过去的几十年内却突飞猛涨。

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While the younger generations prefer to communicate visually, for those used to working with traditional tools like email, it may feel like a learning curve.

虽然年轻一代更喜欢视觉上的交流，但是对于那些习惯于使用电子邮件等传统工具的人来说，这就像是一个学习曲线的过程。

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What does the curve look like?

那么这个曲线是什么样的？

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Mhle says businesses that adopt practices like these are ahead of the curve and that the business climate is changing.

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So we have the monopoly quantity here, and we have the competitive here, and in between what does this best response curve look like?

这样我们就算出了垄断产出,还有完全竞争产出,二者之间的图线是什么样的呢

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you would see something like this,a curve, a very simple shape.

你会看到类似于这样的图像，曲线，非常简单的形状。

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Yes, it feels good in the hand, owed in part to that matte plastic back and subtle arc S-like curve, but the materials feel cheap.

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This newest generation SPARC Sigma watch is probably the most beautiful, benefiting from a lovely pebble-like curve that has the watch wrap around the wrist looking like a fat boomerang.

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Like the Philips Curve, promoting exports by debasing the currency effectively pokes the pendulum.

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