Apparently,the texts that were the most popular over a bigger geographical space tended to be the ones that got in.

很明显，在较大的地域上,最受欢迎的书籍通常都会被选上。

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All of my mid-terms tended to be during one week

我所有的期中考试都安排在了同一个星期。

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If you go onto the continent,though, they tended to be interrupted by World War I and World War II.

如果你们往欧洲大陆国家那里考虑,一战和二战期间的数据几乎是没有存档的

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But when you asked them why they didn't try it the answers tended to be "I would look silly."

但当你问他们为什么不尝试时,他们的答案往往是“这样做会很傻”

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In the Ancient Near East, destroyed cities tended to be leveled, and then a new city would just be built on top of the ruins, Tell Dor each one of those is called a tell These are mounds which represent the successive layers of destroyed and rebuilt cities.

在古代近东地区，被摧毁的城市一般较平坦，那么新城就可以建于废墟之上，这些土丘被称作“退尔“你们也许听过,这些就是小土丘,它们代表着一层层被摧毁又重建的城市。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

These are linguistic terms. But of course, the people who spoke them, especially in the early years, tended to be part of a relatively narrow collection of people, who intermarried with each other chiefly, and therefore developed common cultural characteristics.

这时的希腊语主要是一些语意项,不过当然,那些讲希腊语的人,特别是在早期,是一个相对小范围的人群,他们主要在族群内部通婚,由此,发展出相近的文化特征

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They thought the Klee lovers tended to be smarter than the Kandinsky lovers and the Klee lovers would devote more resources to themselves than to others.

他们认为克利派的人,比康定斯基派的更聪明，而且他们,会更乐意帮助自己群体内的人。

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