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现象
Phenomenon
Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
给一种现象贴上标签并不能解释它。
It's a phenomenon that we don't really understand.
这是一种我们并不真正理解的现象。
I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
我想成为一个单人跨国时尚现象。
Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.
社交网络现象会减少吗?我不这么想。
We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon.
在爱德华王子岛，我们完全熟悉这一现代现象。
I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.
我认为这种惯例现象非常讨人喜欢，但也仅此而已。
If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.
如果你要对抗一种国际现象，在国际上分享信息是必不可少的。
Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.
抑郁症不是一种功能障碍，而是一种功能性现象。它让你停止寒冷，让你沮丧，让你痛苦。
Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.
因为所有的生物学都是相互联系的，所以一个人常常可以用夸大某一特定现象的有机体来取得突破，然后探索其共性。
I was an unusually private person - in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was a temporary phenomenon, and I was above it.
我是一个非常注重隐私的人——在某种程度上，有点难以忍受。我想，当它发生的时候，我认为名人的事情只是一个暂时的现象，而我却置身事外。
As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment.
正如我们在女王的演讲中所看到的，反社会行为是当前的政治主题。我认为，反社会行为是一种真实的担忧，许多耸人听闻的故事也助长了这种担忧。
For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in larger projects.
对我来说，对建筑的兴奋是围绕着这个想法和体验这个想法的现象。住宅几乎能提供即时的满足感。你可以在一定程度上塑造空间、光线和材料，这在大型项目中有时是做不到的。
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What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a given product into a commodity market, which is characterized by declining prices and profit margins, increasing competition, and lowered barriers to entry.
企业担心的是现在被称为“商品化”的现象。这个词的意思很简单，就是把特定产品的市场转变成商品市场。商品市场的特点是价格和利润率下降，竞争加剧，进入壁垒降低。