That says that any isolated system will tend towards increasing entropy, or disorder.

该定律认为，任何一个孤立系统的熵于增加或无序。

Fees also tend to soar because, even when they rise, captive parents are loth to pull out, not least because the alternative is likely to be an undersubscribed and underperforming state school.

学费也猛涨，因为只要它涨，着了高价高质量迷的家长就不想更不想撒手，更重要的原因是只要一撒手，他们的剩下的选择可能就是资金欠缺又运营不良的公立学校了。

Its employment system still tends to reward seniority and status rather than performance, in what Japanese call aku byodo or “bad egalitarianism”.

它的雇佣体系仍于让高级别和地位的雇员获得更多，而非根据受雇者的工作表现，这就是日本人所谓的“糟糕的平均主义”。

When we get nervous we tend to speed up.

我们紧张的时候会于加快语速。

This prevents what I like to call “entropy” which is a term in thermodynamics that generally refers to how everything in the universe tends to move toward disorder and chaos.

这就避免了我所说的“熵（entropy）”，这是一个热力学术语，通指的是宇宙中的一切是如何于无序和混乱的。

The downside of both of science fiction and movies is that they tend to be dystopian, they tend to be very negative, they tend to be very noir.

一个弊端就是无论是科幻还是电影的题材都是反乌托邦的，它们都于消极、于黑暗。

The mass media, advertising and sports are other forces for homogenization.

大众传媒、广告和体育也推动着人们逐渐统一。

The event changed the trend of public opinion.

这件事改变了舆论的。

The present perfect simple looks at completed actions, and often counts how many or how much, whereas, the present perfect continuous tends to see one action in duration, and cares about how long.

现在完成时所描述的是已经完成的动作，并且经强调多少，然而，现在完成进行时于描述一个持续的动作，通会强调时间长短。

People tended to marry within their village or within a nearby village.

人们开始于与同一个村落或相邻的村落联姻。

The November numbers released by the Commerce Department send a mixed signal for holiday spending.

商务部公布了的11月经济数字，造成了假期消费的混合信息。

In the equation below, as E goes to zero, n approaches infinity.

【infinity】在下面的方程式中，E于零时，n接近无穷大。

This is not always true, but the strong tendency to produce majorities is built into the system.

这种说法并不总是正确的，但是产生多数派这种强烈的是存在于该体制中的。

ALICE WINKLER: It was Roy Raymond, the owner of Victoria's Secret, which was, at the time, a local chain of six stores and a catalog business. Sales of lingerie had been good, but the business was failing miserably.

是罗伊·雷蒙德，维多利亚的秘密的所有者。当时，维多利亚的秘密是当地一个拥有六家连锁店以及业务概览目录的连锁店。内衣销售一直很好，但生意却在惨淡。

An expression that once had a narrow meaning within a specific subculture has drifted toward meaning " good" -a flattening that is the final destination of all slang terms that spread too far too fast.

一个曾经在特定亚化中具有狭义含义的表达方式，如今却逐渐于 “好 ”的含义--这种扁平化是所有传播过快过远的俚语的最终归宿。

Americans used to get most of their orange juice from concentrate, but these days, we tend to buy it in cartons where the juice doesn't need to be diluted.

美国人通过浓缩来最大程度获取橙汁，而那段时间大众都购买它，包装盒上写着不需稀释。

Because they are units or systems, they do possess at their outer limits a resistance which serves to give them unitary identity, a resistance which tends to attract like and repel unlike elements.

因为它们是单元或系统，所以它们确实在它们的外部边界具有阻力，起到为它们提供单一身份的作用，这种阻力于吸引同类元素、排斥异己元素。

But the problem is that most books and most non-fiction books these days tend to be like big idea books where it's like one central idea.

但问题是如今大多数书籍和非小说类书籍都于大创意书籍，书里有一个核心思想。

While we tend to have an equal ability to detect touch and pain, scientists found that our acuity for simple touch decreases towards the center of the body.

当我们于对接触和疼痛的感知能力相等时，科学家们发现我们对身体中心部位的的简单接触比外侧要弱。

Yeah, I mean, from the beginning of human life on this planet, people have gone to where there is water and left the places where there is not.

是的，从地球上人类生命的初始阶段开始，人们就于迁往有水的地方，而离开那些水源匮乏的地区。