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Tolbert says employment is the key in a nation still recovering from conflict where the United Nations estimates formal sector unemployment at 80 percent.
But what we're trying to do now is identify the key influencers in those merchant areas and make them distribution points.
但我们现在努力要做的是,在商界确定,最重要的影响因素,让他们变为非配点。
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But a real key in looking at these plots is where we, in fact, did go through zero and have this zero probability density.
是我们经历这些零值,而且有这些零概率密度,我们把它叫做节点。
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The patent disputes have been key in spurring talks about Apple diversifying its suppliers.
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If you key something in, you put information into a computer or you give the computer a particular instruction by typing the information or instruction on the keyboard.