As he and other researchers examined the question of why teens were more apt to take risks in the company of other teenagers, they came to suspect that a crowd's influence need not always be negative.

当他和其他研究人员研究为什么青少年在其他青少年的陪伴下更敢于冒险这一问题时，他们开始怀疑群体的影响不一定总是负面的。

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Redundant slogans are apt to petrify a man's thinking.

口号过多容易使人思想僵化。

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A naive person is apt to be cheated by others.

思想单纯的人很容易受到他人的欺骗。

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But a man serving a ten-year stretch is apt to cool his heels in a local jail, with nothing offered in the way of rehabilitation.

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The evidence suggests that a 100-year-old red sea urchin is just as apt to live another year, or reproduce, as a 10-year-old sea urchin.

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They also give them a short-term reprieve from searching for a job when firms are more apt to fire than hire.

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