Upbringing plays an important part in determining a person's character.

后天培养对于一个人性格的形成起着重要作用。

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Gil Garnier and colleagues explain that determining a patient's blood type is critical for successful blood transfusions, which save millions of lives each year worldwide.

吉尔·加尼尔和他的同事解释说确定病人血型对于成功输血有着重要意义，每年可以挽救全球无数人的生命。

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Compare the accuracy of these methods of determining a building's construction status with that of any metric available to a software development project manager. Spectacular errors are commonplace.

如果将这些确定建筑物构造状态的方法的准确性与软件开发项目经理使用的任何度量标准的准确性相比较，则不可避免地存在大量错误。

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Connecting a dull activity (scoring tests, say) to a meaningful purpose (determining scientific results) can help maintain attentiveness.

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If the rental real estate activities are section 162 trades or businesses, the rules in section 469(c)(7) and Sec. 1.469-9 will apply in determining whether a rental real estate activity of a real estate professional is a passive activity for purposes of section 1411(c)(2)(A).

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Since many innovations represent a solution to a technical problem, this approach often involved determining other industries (or other situations within the same industry) in which a similar problem arose, and then generalizing the description of the innovation so that it could be used in those other industries or situations.

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