A general trend can be recognized, but the details are usually unpredictable.

一般的趋势是可以识别的，但是细节通常是不可预测的。

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But none of these factors is likely to reverse the general trend.

尽管如此，所有这些因素也不大可能扭转眼下的普遍趋势。

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The way Mr Zeng sells his work is illustrative of a general trend.

曾先生作品的销售方式说明了一个大趋势。

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The Director General of the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers,Dilip Chenoy, hopes the positive trend will drive a recovery in the auto sector.

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And also in a row three, yeah, we're generally increasing, there's some glitches here, but the general trend holds true.

另外对于第三行，也对，我们大体上是在升高的，只是这里有些小偏差，但是总体规律是正确的。

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So here we have that graphed here, Z we have atomic number z graphed against ionization energy, so, let's fill in what the actual atoms are here, and we can see in general, yes, we're following the trend.

这就是我们要画的，横坐标是原子序数，纵坐标是电离能，让我们把真正的原子填上去，我们可以看出，总体来说，没错，满足规律。

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On top of the red line a hand-drawn narrow black line shows the general trend.

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In fairness to Zuckerberg, he was pointing out a general trend and probably meant no disrespect.

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This follows a general trend on the Internet market, where strong established media brands buy up successful Internet upstarts.

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