If something is simple (say, having everybody code alone) but it isn't effective, than it's not the simplest thing that could possibly work.

如果有些事情虽简单(比如，让每个人独自编码)但没有效果，那么它并不是行之有效的最简单的事情。

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Europeans and Americans may be making their venerable partnership more modest, less messianic—and possibly more effective.

美欧有可能使他们有价值的伙伴关系更适度，更少龌龊，有可能更有效。

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A vaccine can prevent yellow fever. Experts say the vaccine is safe and very effective. The protection continues for at least ten years and possibly for life.

一种疫苗能够预防黄热病。专家说：这种疫苗安全有效。这种防护措施须坚持十年也可能一生。

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"Possibly,he is one of the most effective members of the Congress that served during the last 20 years,".

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"I go to the gym," (No Transcripts) Michael Reagan says that while following a healthy diet, reading and learning new skills can help sharpen one's memory and possibly prevent or slow the advance of the illness, the most effective way to fight Alzheimer's is to volunteer and support funding for current research.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

However striking the image, how could it possibly be effective if confined within such a small square?

CNN: JAPAN'S HIDDEN PERSUADERS

But there is more than a little silver lining here: The FDA is allowing Tularik to use a higher (and therefore possibly more effective) dose of T67 than it used in earlier tests.

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But Perlmutter and Morrow both insist that they're not repeating big pharma's mistakes--that instead, with a new antibody codenamed AMG 162, they will offer patients with weakening bones a new, more convenient and possibly more effective treatment.

FORBES: Amgen: To Be Big Pharma or Not Big Pharma?