Robert Kaplan (1966) proposed a notion of contrastive rhetoric as a hypothesis to account for some persistent characteristic patterns in ESL students' writing.

罗伯特·卡普兰在1966年首先提出了对比修辞学的概念。

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Since its launch, Netflix has been banking on a frustrating but persistent characteristic of the human mind: we are really bad forecasters.

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