A recent study of ancient and modern elephants has come up with the unexpected conclusion that the African elephant is divided into two distinct species.

一项针对古代和现代大象的研究得出一个出人意料的结论：非洲大象已经分化成两个不同的物种。

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This experiment leads to the likely conclusion that the stressful pace of urban living numbs people to unexpected encounters with beauty.

这个实验引向一个很有可能的结论，因为快节奏的都市生活所带来的压力，人们对于不期而遇的美已经失去了感觉。

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Stubbornly, they arranged themselves into a most unexpected conclusion, one that seems almost blasphemy to type: Twitter has the potential to match some of the money-gushing properties of the Internet's greatest money gusher, Google Inc.

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When you have mastered a subject, you can recall two or more facts and, from those facts draw a conclusion as to how your newly recalled data points might combine to create an entirely different, perhaps unexpected point of view.

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