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将趋向于增加或无序。

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.

费也趋向猛涨，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，更重要的原因只要一撒手，他们的剩下的选择可能就资金欠缺又运营不良的公立校了。

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

它的雇佣体系仍趋向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.

我们紧张的时候会趋向于加快语速。

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）”，这一个热语，通指的中的一切如何趋向于无序和混乱的。

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.

一个弊端就无论科幻还电影的题材都反乌托邦的，它们都趋向于消极、趋向于黑暗。

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趋向统一。

The event changed the trend of public opinion.

这件事改变了舆论的趋向。

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已经完成的动作，并且经强调多少，然而，现在完成进行时趋向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.

人们开始趋向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，造成了假期消费趋向的混合信息。

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

【infinity】在下面的方程式中，E趋向于零时，n接近无穷大。

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

这种说法并不总正确的，但产生多数派这种强烈的趋向存在于该体制中的。

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.

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，但生意却在趋向惨淡。

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.

一个曾经在特定亚文化中具有狭义含义的表达方式，如今却逐渐趋向于 “好 ”的含义--这种扁平化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，而那段时间大众趋向都购买它，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.

因为它们单元或系统，所以它们确实在它们的外部边界具有阻，起到为它们提供单一身份的作用，这种阻趋向于吸引同类元素、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.

但问题如今大多数书籍和非小说类书籍都趋向于大创意书籍，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.

当我们趋向于对接触和疼痛的感知能相等时，科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.

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