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。
Building on this basic truth about interpersonal influence, the researchers studied the dynamics of social influence by conducting thousands of computer simulations of populations, manipulating a number of variables relating to people's ability to influence others and their tendency to be influenced.
基于这一关于人际影响的基本事实，研究人员通过进行数千次计算机模拟，研究了社会影响的动态过程，并操控了与人们影响他人能力及其容易被影响倾向相关的一些变量。
The researchers from Ohio University used a database that covered more than 10,000 firms and more than 64,000 different directors between 1989 and 2004.
来自俄亥俄大学的研究人员使用了一个涵盖 1989 年至 2004 年间超过 10,000 家公司和超过 64,000 名不同董事的数据库。
The most likely reason for departing a board was age, so the researchers concentrated on those “surprise” disappearances by directors under the age of 70.
董事离开董事会的最可能原因是因为年龄，因此研究人员集中关注了那些 70 岁以下董事的“意外”消失情况。
But the researchers believe that outside directors have an easier time of avoiding a blow to their reputations if they leave a firm before bad news breaks, even if a review of history shows they were on the board at the time any wrongdoing occurred.
但研究人员认为，如果外部董事在坏消息公布之前就离开公司，即使历史记录显示他们在任何不当行为发生时曾担任董事会成员，他们也更容易避免对其声誉的打击。
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。