The former can decompose a string into substrings if the substrings are separated by a predictable pattern.

如果使用可预测的模式分隔子字符串，则前者可以将字符串分解成几个子字符串。

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But experiments that measured the activity of handfuls of neurons in the animals' brains suggested there was no predictable pattern in how those memories were stored.

但是，用来测量动物脑内多束神经细胞活动的那些试验表明，动物储存记忆的方式无规律可循。

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Like distance runners on a measured course, all of us will move through time in a roughly predictable pattern.

正如长跑运动员在特定的路线上跑步一样，我们都将以一种大致可以预测的轨迹经历人生。

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This assumes that Merrill can avoid the seven-year ditch--an almost predictable pattern of getting into serious trouble once or twice a decade.

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"For whatever reason, there's a predictable pattern where September has bad performance, " says Steven DeSanctis a strategist with Bank of America Merrill Lynch's equity research team.

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The cycle of abuse is a social theory developed by Lenore Walker, who taught at the Rutgers Medical School, to describe an often-predictable pattern in an abusive relationship.

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