A new study suggests individuals choose a partner based upon their perception of a potential mate's attributes and upside or downside potential.

新研究表明，个人在选择伴侣时往往基于潜在另一半的个人特征及其上升潜力或下行空间。

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While future contracts protect against the downside of price fluctuations, they also limit potential upsides as well.

虽然期货合同防止了价格向下波动，但它们也限制了价格升高的可能。

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Their advice offered a look at the potential downside of cancer screening and our seemingly endless quest to detect cancer early in otherwise healthy people.

他们的建议让人们看到，对癌症的筛查和我们对健康人的早期癌症检测看起来无止境的要求的潜在坏处。

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At best the markets will be flat, or will have a downside potential of 20%.

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While the U.S. dollar index is far from suggesting it can sustain any price uptrend, it does appear the index has limited downside potential at its present historical lows levels.

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Given that real estate is so local, the best way to gauge the downside potential of your home or commercial real estate is to find out what it was worth at the beginning of 2000 at best and the beginning of 1996 at worst.

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