That's not meant to be a bad word but suggests being influenced, one might say, in the sense of "open the window and influenza," by those signs that precede it.

这不是个不好的词，只是想要表达影响的意思，人们可能说将一个符号之前的符号称作是“,“打开了窗户，引发了流感“

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Enrolments (which precede issued numbers by some months) should reach 200m in a couple of weeks.

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Originally, the SNP believed the spring conference would precede the general election by only a short period of time.

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The view of another senior Treasury official, Under Secretary David Mulford, (expressed on the record at the London Economic Summit) to the effect that a currency stabilization fund for the Soviet Union would not be possible for at least 2-3 years -- a period of sufficient duration to permit structural reforms to precede ruble convertibility, will probably go by the boards within 6-9 months.

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