Last April, for example, the justices signaled that too many patents were being upheld for "inventions" that are obvious.
例如，去年四月，法官们表示，太多专利被维持有效，而这些专利所涉及的"发明"实际上是显而易见的。
In many such cases, a cursory search for causes finds that some small group of people was wearing, promoting, or developing whatever it is before anyone else paid attention.
在许多这样的案例中，粗略地寻找原因会发现，总有一些小群体在其他人注意到之前就已经在穿、推广或发展这些东西了。
The researchers' argument stems from a simple observation about social influence: With the exception of a few celebrities like Oprah Winfrey - whose outsize presence is primarily a function of media, not interpersonal, influence - even the most influential members of a population simply don't interact with that many others.
研究人员的论点源于对社会影响的一个简单观察：除了像奥普拉·温弗瑞这样少数几位其巨大影响力主要源于媒体而非人际影响的名人外，人群中最有影响力的人实际上并不与太多其他人互动。
For a social epidemic to occur, however, each person so affected must then influence his or her own acquaintances, who must in turn influence theirs, and so on; and just how many others pay attention to each of these people has little to do with the initial influential.
然而，要使社会流行现象发生，每个受到影响的人随后都必须去影响他们自己的熟人，而这些熟人又必须进一步影响他们自己的熟人，依此类推；而究竟有多少其他人关注这些受影响的人，与最初的影响力者关系不大。
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。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。