"So for instance, our relationships have been linked to lower blood pressure, better immune functioning, and even inflammatory processes that are implicated in a number of diseases."

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That is, most processes that we're concerned with, they'll happen with something held constant like pressure or temperature or maybe volume.

这句话是说我们所关注的大部分过程，发生的时候都是保持某个量为常数,比如压强，温度或者体积。

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Long-established processes are straining under the pressure as the modern workplace prepares their redundancy notices.

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Britain has recently been putting public pressure on the World Bank to streamline its processes to ease the availability of funds.

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At the same time, these technologies and underlying processes are run by people under pressure to deliver economic performance, under deadlines, where time costs money and shortcuts can potentially save millions.

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