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Making this transition is thought to be key to the normal development of the brain.
在动态和静态睡眠之间切换被认为对大脑正常发育很关键。
Understanding how a pathogen or humans are affecting the sturgeon could be key to conserving them.
了解一种病原体或人类是如何影响鲟鱼的，对于保护它们是至关重要的。
In the end, we found consistency and frequent reviews to be key to success when presenting our use-case model to the customer.
最后我们发现当我们向客户展示我们的用例模型时，一致的并频繁的检查是成功的关键。

Saying the difference between a sharp recession and a depression is a loss of faith, economist Mark Zandi said a restoration of confidence will be key to recovery.
Now I could have made a key, keys don't have to be strings, but as it happened, I didn't.
现在我可以建立一个键了，键并不一定是字符串，但这儿既然已经是字符串了。
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No. 2, we believe that young people have to be a key part of building that ethos One of the reasons for that is purely demographic.
其次，我们认为青年人,必须成为建立该社会风气的主力,其中的一个原因,纯粹是从人口统计学来考虑的。
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This is going to be key to growing our economy and helping businesses create jobs.
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