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as far as

至于

In their recent work, however, some researchers have come up with the finding that influentials have far less impact on social epidemics than is generally supposed.

然而，最近一些研究人员的研究结果表明，影响者对社会流行现象的影响远没有人们普遍认为的那么大。

If people in the network just two degrees removed from the initial influential prove resistant, for example, the cascade of change won't propagate very far or affect many people.

例如，如果距离最初的影响力者仅隔两层关系的人表现出抵抗，那么这种变化的连锁反应就不会传播得很远，也不会影响到很多人。

But the market generates interest far beyond its size because it brings together great wealth, enormous egos, greed, passion and controversy in a way matched by few other industries.

然而，这个市场因其聚集了巨额财富、巨大的自我、贪婪、激情和争议，而引起了远超其规模的关注，这种现象在其他行业中很少见。

This time experts reckon that prices are about 40% down on their peak on average, though some have been far more fluctuant.

但专家们认为，这一次价格平均比峰值下降了约40%，尽管有些作品的价格波动要大得多。