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Small companies tend to do better than bigger ones in the long term, but they tend to be less diversified and therefore more risky.

长期来看，小公司可能比大公司表现更好，但他们也因为太单一而使风险颇高。

Youngsters who have been jobless for a year or more tend to do worse in the labour market for the rest of their lives.

失业达一年或更久的年轻人在人生剩余时间内在劳动力市场上的表现往往更差。

As they tend to do whenever they encounter any elephant bones, the elephants first gather around the bones in a defensive circle. . .

就像它们在遇到任何大象尸骨时做的那样，大象们首先在尸骨周围围成一个防卫圈…

Most people come here for the stores, but I tend to do my shopping after everything's locked up for the night.

多数人到这里购买补给品，但是我更喜欢在夜里所有的商店都关门后做我的生意。

The short answer is no, as a matter of fact, research tells us that these "conversion therapies" tend to do more harm than good.

答案是否定的，事实上研究显示，这些所谓的“转化治疗”不但没用，而且有害。

To be sure, sales of new homes did tend to do a little worse during recessions, but the difference was small and short-lived.

可以确定的是，新房的销售在衰退时期的确倾向于差一些，但是少和短期是有区别的。

The movie ends and we "re done, instead of mindlessly switching from channel to channel as you tend to do with a television. "

电影结束我们也结束，不用再去和电视机相处时从这个频道切换到那个频道。

Gaming stocks tend to do well in a weak economy - gambling appeals to people down on their luck.

在经济不景气的情况下，游戏公司的股票还表现不错——人们喜欢赌博，赌运气。

Those usually turn out to be the subjects you don't like or tend to do poorly in.

这些课通常是你不喜欢的或是学得不好的课程。

Although the average age of people getting married in North America is creeping upward, people still tend to do it.

尽管北美人的平均结婚年龄逐渐增高，但人们还是希望结婚的。

While most research shows that insider chief executives tend to do better than outsiders, GM's situation is unique.

虽然大多数研究表明，内部升任的首席执行官往往比外部人士做得更好，但通用汽车的情形十分特殊。

And we must be careful not to lay too much stress even on generality of this kind (as I think logicians like Whitehead tend to do).

但即使对于后一种普遍性，我们同样要小心不要着墨太多（我想像怀特黑德这样的逻辑学家倾向于这么做）。

And one of the things we tend to do as adults, again, is we edit things. We stop ourselves from doing things.

大人的另一个倾向，会去编辑东西。我们停住自己，不再去做。

Australia's online consumers tend to do much of their Internet spending on consumer electronics, computers and appliances.

澳大利亚的网购者更趋向于在网上购买电子产品，电脑及电器用品。

Users are still sharing photos and videos and posting blog entries, they just tend to do this within a social networking site these days.

用户仍然在分享照片，视频，写博客，只是当今他们倾向倾向于在社交网络站点上做这些事情。

There are not clear reasons why children of lesbian mothers tend to do better than those in straight families on certain measures.

现在尚不知道女同性恋家庭的孩子为何会表现得更出色。

When you look at the stuff I've done, I tend to do things that are just completely out there, or not even human in any way.

你看我以前配的作品，我总是倾向于给纯粹幻想式作品，甚或是非人类的角色配音。

Therefore, they tend to do a very poor job of testing the integration of several asynchronous components.

因此，对由几个异步组件整合而成的组件所做的测试工作往往并不理想。

When bubbles finally do burst, recent history has shown, they tend to do so with a bang.

近年来的历史已经告诉我们，当泡沫最后破裂的时候往往并没有“砰”的一声巨响。

This question tests whether you tend to do simple things in an overly complicated way.

这道题是检测你会不会拿复杂的方法做简单的事…