To understand this though, we first need to look at an earlier form of drama known as the well-made play, which basically was a pattern for constructing plays.

要理解这一点，我们首先需要看一看早期那些制作精良的戏剧形式，这基本上就是一种构建戏剧的模式。

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Now, the typical pattern for an interglacial period—and we've studied several—is that the concentration of carbon dioxide and methane gas actually reaches its peak.

现在，我们已经研究过几个间冰期的典型模式，其中一种是大气中二氧化碳和甲烷含量达到峰值的情况。

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This system sets the pattern for others to follow.

这个系统堪为他人仿效的典范。

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"There is a pattern of widespread and systematic violations that the prevailing impunity allows for the continuation of those violations,"

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This is a meditation on both the joy and the loss of literary substitution for the real or for the truth, the substitution of abstract pattern for something like comprehensible meaning.

对为了现实或是真理,和有着某些可理解含义的抽象模式，的文学替代的思考,在这里她有些被这宝石般的线索吸引住了。

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I think it's a great pattern for sharing how you feel about wanting more,

它也可以用来表达，对于某事你要得多，

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The calamity that sets the pattern for the future occurs while Teddy is at war.

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Google (GOOG) is still building what I think will be a explosive pattern for 2012.

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Whoever signs the contract first sets the pattern for the rest of the industry.

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