Students of human migration speak of "push" and "pull" factors, which influence an individual's decision to move from one place to another.

研究人类迁移的学生们谈到“推”和“拉”因素，这些因素会影响个体是否会从一个地方迁移到另一个地方。

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She put her hands under the leaves and began to pull and push them aside.

她把她的手放在树叶下，开始把它们推拉到一边去。

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Growth occurs because you feel a push, or pull, to move in a direction.

成长出现是当你由于感觉朝着某个方向有一个推或拉力。

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In daily life, everything seems to come to rest unless you push it or you pull it or you exert some kind of force.

在日常生活中,一切物体都会停下来,除非你去推它,或者拉它,或者施加某种外力

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Books like The Power of Pull by John Hagel, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison talk about it in terms of the shift from push to pull.

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The tweaker inherits things as they are, and has to push and pull them toward some more nearly perfect solution.

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Reality extends to the plain fact that there is no switch or level to push, pull or toggle that will instantaneously change the polarity of the flow.

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