So Mr Whitman's findings are more probabilities than rules.

所以惠特曼的发现与其说是规则，不如说是可能。

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Now, these index-limitation guidelines are more rules of thumb than rules to live by.

现在，这些索引限制指南已经成为首要规则，而不仅仅是指南而已。

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But our computations are often disturbed by a great many circumstances beyond our reach, so much that we are governed more by exceptions than rules.

但是我们如果要预测天气的变化，常常会遇到许多复杂情况的困扰，这些多变的复杂情况超出了我们所能掌握的一般原理，所以我们必须对这些复杂多变的因素给予更多的关注。

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Treaty members agreed to approve rules banning ships carrying more than five hundred travelers.

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Holier than these days is the Sabbath, which is demarcated by even further rules and observances.

比这些日子更神圣的，是安息日，它被更加严格的规则和规定区分开来。

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I'm narrowing it down. It's getting a little silly but you know I'm going to really be persistent and just follow the rules here of binary search, rather than jumping to conclusions.

按照二分法的规则来做的,而不是直接得出某种结论,很明显这儿我的目的是什么？,显示这两个相同的东西。

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Those men really wanted clear, singing prose, much more than rules, and they bent rules accordingly.

NEWYORKER: The English Wars

But the emphasis should be on clarity, rather than rules, argues Burridge and she is not alone.

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Yet the trouble runs deeper than rules that can be bent.

ECONOMIST: Free trade in peril