在组织高层中，女性的稀缺可能只是代表了在连续层级中持续甚至是逐渐减少的劣势的累积效应。

Women's scarcity in top organizational ranks may simply represent the cumulative effect of a constant—or even decreasing—disadvantage at successive hierarchical levels.

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学生应该努力逐渐减少对老师的依赖。

Students should aim to become more independent of their teachers.

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在比赛的下半场，他们的势头就逐渐减弱。

They began to lose momentum in the second half of the game.

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