By the turnof the century, Pittsburgh had the highest death rate in the United States.
到了世纪交替时,匹兹堡的死亡率居全美之首。
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In conversations, interpersonal coordination is found when people adjust the duration of their utterances and their speech rate to one another so that they can enable turn-taking to occur.
在交谈中,人际间的协调性表现在其对说话时长和说话速度的调整上,这样做能够使对话进行下去。
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Thoughts turn first to some sort of global statistic, some indicator which would rate the wealth of nations in both economic and environmental terms and show a relationship between the two.