Hills and mountains are often regarded as the epitome of permanence, successfully resisting the destructive forces of nature, but in fact they tend to be relatively short-lived in geological terms.

丘陵和山脉通常被认为是永恒的象征，成功抵御着自然的破坏力量，但其实它们从地质学角度讲往往是相对短暂的。

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Additionally, I tend not to think in terms of an RDMS, but in terms of objects.

此外，我并不倾向于按照RDMS来考虑问题，而倾向于按照对象来考虑问题。

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This naturally places restrictions on them as a computing platform; compute resources tend to be limited, in terms of processing power, memory, and persistent storage.

这就自然地限制了其作为计算平台的能力；计算资源容易收到处理能力、内存和持久性存储的限制。

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Now, Western cultures, as I've said, are highly invested in an ethics of autonomy and so debates we have in our culture tend to be framed in terms of an ethics of autonomy.

我之前说过，西方文化，具有强烈的自治道德,所以我们文化中的争议,都是从自治道德的观点出发的。

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So in simply the interests of reflecting the plurality of our own departments, CE we tend to use these terms, rather than BC and AD.

所以为了表现宗教多样性，我们不用BC和AD，而用BCE和。

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Countries such as Germany, which come closer than most to believing in a common European interest, tend to talk of it in terms of the interests of a majority of EU countries, not the interests of all.

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Older men and women tend to think more in terms of organizing economic activity in a centralized, top-down fashion.

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This is known as 'diagnostic overshadowing - whereby a patient's physical symptoms tend to be seen in terms of their mental health condition or learning disability.

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