White said his team wanted to see whether living in greener urban areas had a lasting positive effect on people's sense of well-being or whether the effect also disappeared after a period of time.

怀特说，他的团队想知道生活在绿化较好的城市地区是否会对人们的幸福感产生持久的积极影响，还是说这种影响会在一段时间后就消失。

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The pace of change in energy sources appears to be speeding up—perhaps just in time to have a meaningful effect in slowing climate change.

能源资源方面的转变速度似乎在加快——也许正好对减缓气候变化产生有意义的影响。

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In a way, there's a subset of questions that arises from those, to the effect that this is, of course, what we'll be taking up next time: the question "What is an author?"

从这些大问题中又会产生一些小问题，这些问题也将是我们以后会讨论的：,关于文学的缘由，我们接着又会问，“作者是谁？“

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Yeah, it's kind of a color that you throw in from time to time for special effect.

对,它就如同制作视觉特效时,添加的色彩

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For the first time"--this was, of course, the French aristocrat de Tocqueville "For the first time we have had the chance to examine the effect that slavery produces on a society.

第一次",这位托克维尔即是,法国的那位贵族德·托克维尔,"第一次我们有机会仔细观察,奴隶制对一个社会造成的影响

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But the governor of the Bank of England warns that was due to the one-time economic effect of the Summer Olympics being held in London, and the U.K. economy could be back in negative growth in the fourth quarter.

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In one scale there was a 5 point improvement in symptoms in the placebo pill group, but people who got nothing had a 4 point improvement over the same period of time This suggests that the main effect here is the passage of time.

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The point here is that we are reading the most significant economic story of our time and its effect on the psyche of the people who should know better is minimal.

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