A good example of this is learning a language. Every bit of vocab and grammar is dependent on what you already know, so your mind is much less likely to dump that knowledge.

学习一门语言是个很好的例子，每一个单词和语法考点都依赖于你之前所学内容的积累，你想忘记都难。

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However, these DBMSs were complex and required people with considerable technical knowledge to understand them, much less design and manage them.

然而，这些DBMSs很复杂，需要具有相当多技术知识的人来理解它们，更不用说设计和管理它们了。

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CET has long been emphasizing the teaching aspects such as vocabulary and grammar rather than the introduction of knowledge culture, much less that of communicative culture.

长期以来，大学英语一直偏重于词汇、语法等方面的教学，而对知识文化，尤其是交际文化的导入重视不够。

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Having worked in the White House, I know how cloistered the environment can be and how limited its information resources are much of what White House staffers know about what is going on in the White House actually comes from reporters and news reports rather than inside knowledge, which is frequently much less than reporters imagine.

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Experts say that by this process, this means that no new bombs of plutonium are being made, no better bombs, and it makes it much less likely that North Korea is able to export its knowledge, its expertise or any material that could be used for nuclear weapons.

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Among finance professionals there is widespread agreement that it is an issue where politicians are pretty much totally ignorant, but no less dangerous for their lack of knowledge.

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