Top-down processing is an example of when you know what something is you hear it that way.

举例来说,自上而下加工就是,当你知道某句话是什么的时候,你便会按照这句话去听

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So, top-down processing affects how we hear things, usually, almost always, for the better.

所以,自上而下加工几乎总是,会往好的方向影响我们的理解

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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again.

我真想去爬白桦树，沿着雪白的树干，爬上乌黑的树枝，爬向那天心，直到树身再支撑不住，树梢碰着地，把我放下来。

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A guy named Seth Klarman, who works at a fund in Boston called Baupost, said that what he does is worries top-down and invests bottom-up.

他叫塞斯·克拉曼,在波士顿的Baupost基金工作,他说他的工作就是自上而下地担心,自下而上地投资

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And it sounds to many people who do top-down interpretation as to me as well, that "She's the kind of girl you read about in Newsweek magazine."

很多进行自上而下解释的人,也包括我,都将它听为,"她是你在《新闻周刊》杂志上,所读到的女孩"

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Now, this top-down...this is known as "Top-down" Processing.

这就是"自上而下"的加工

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