Their work makes a rather startling assertion: the trait we commonly call talent is highly overrated.

他们的研究提出了一个相当惊人的主张：我们通常称为天赋的特征被严重高估了。

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The more startling a paper's claims, the more likely it is that others will try to replicate it and, if the claims were specious, fail.

一篇论文的断言越是惊世骇俗，其他人越有可能试图对它予以复制，如果论断似是而非，肯定复制不出来。

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The two visitors provided a startling contrast in appearance.

两位来访者的外貌有惊人的不同。

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"What was startling to me, considering how complicated the screenplay was, was seeing it in a visual format.

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It's a startling argument.

这的确是很令人警醒的论述。

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Hearst remembers startling members of a consulting firm when they met for the first time.

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So it was a little startling when a good friend, a retired military official who now works as an executive in higher education, mentioned that twice a week he does not arrive in his office until 9 a.m.

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It is a startling comedown for a guy who made something out of nothing.

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That's a startling number for a social network, more akin to the relentlessly hawking enterprise-software crowd.

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