Parland's alligator population has been declining in recent years, primarily because of hunting.

帕兰的短吻鳄数量近年来一直在减少，主要是捕猎造成的。

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While they sound efficient and cost-saving, a recent study reports that they are not effective, primarily because depressed patients are not likely to engage with them or stick with them.

虽然它们听起来很高效而且节约成本，但最近的一项研究表明，它们并不有效，主要是因为抑郁症患者与之接触的可能性低，也难以坚持下去。

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It's primarily because you are a steward over your own life.

那是因为你管理着你自己的生活。

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So the fact is those lab animals have a hard-wired preference for foods that are high in fat and high in sugar, primarily because of the energy density that those foods bring to one, and then the variety is important because you get a mix of nutrients.

事实上 实验动物对高脂肪高糖的食物,有着强烈的偏爱,而这种爱基于,该类食物能给我们提供高能量,多样性很重要,因为你能摄取多种营养

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We implicitly demand of expository texts," he goes on to say -and he may be alluding to Gadamer here because after all Gadamer is talking primarily about expository text, works of philosophy, works of social thought, which of course aren't trying to surprise or trick us.

我们暗中希望能得到解释的文本“，他接着说下去,而且他可能在这里提到葛达玛,因为毕竟葛达玛主要研究解释性作品，哲学作品，社会思想作品，这些当然不会试图去令我们惊讶或者是误导我们。

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That little J shaped curve is explained primarily by cigarette smoking because that keeps weight down in people, it also makes people sick so that their weight gets low because of that, and it explains the high rates of the disease risk there.

这个小J形曲线主要是由吸烟引起的,因为吸烟一方面能让体重降低,另一方面也引起疾病,疾病让人们的体重下降,这也解释了这里的高患病风险

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Pensions often hire managers their consultants have recommended primarily because other pensions have hired these managers.

FORBES: The Politics of Fraud: How Pension Politics Enable Money Managers To Commit Fraud (July 1, 2001)

Others have become literacy programme facilitators primarily because both their literacy and communication skills have improved.

UNESCO: ATEK Reading Comprehension

The prices of oil and other commodities are surging primarily because of the weak dollar.

FORBES: Bush's Big Boo-Boo