The research argued that boys often perform badly in mixed schools because they become discouraged when their female peers do better earlier in speaking and reading skills.

研究认为，男孩通常在男女混合学校的表现不好，因为当其女性同龄人比他们更快地在口语和阅读技能上做得更好时，他们会灰心。

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In some cases, a new design was imposed over an earlier one; less often, the original design was simply covered with white slip.

在某些情况下，新的设计被强加在先前的设计之上；在更少的情况下，最初的设计只是简单地用白色的纸片覆盖。

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And in these earlier studies, people often used their money to punish the richest and most miserly players.

在这些早期实验中，人们常常利用自己的金钱惩罚最富有、最吝啬的玩家。

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A comedy act in earlier days often included a part where one of the comedians would hit the others over the head with a soft object.

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I don't know how much you've seen, but quite often the way you learned physics earlier on in high school is probably different from the way professional physicists think about it.

我不知道你们对物理有多少了解,但你们以前在高中所学的物理知识,和资深物理学家们的看法,常常是很不一样的

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In earlier times, damselfish often used staghorn corals to grow in these areas.

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Due to the fact that the suspect is apprehended before the attack and most often earlier in the planning stages, there is usually not that much hard evidence for the state to find him guilty of a terrorism charge.

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Dutschke's house, business and vehicles in Tupelo were searched earlier in the week often by crews in hazardous materials suits and he had been under surveillance.

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It has been observed that ideas that become conventional wisdom in everything from politics to culture were often born 20 or so years earlier in the radical thinking of a small elite.

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