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。
Then they simply checked which directors stayed from one proxy statement to the next.
然后他们 simply 检查了哪些董事从一份代理声明到下一份代理声明一直留任。
Either Entergy never really intended to live by those commitments, or it simply didn't foresee what would happen next.
要么是Entergy公司从未真正打算遵守这些承诺，要么是它根本没有预见到接下来会发生的事情。
Rather than have people simply rate their beauty compared with others, he asked them to identify an original photograph of themselves from a lineup including versions that had been altered to appear more and less attractive.
与其让参与者简单地将自己与他人相比评定美貌，他要求他们从一组包含被修改得更吸引人和不那么吸引人的照片中，辨认出自己原始的照片。
“It’s a reflection simply of people generally thinking well of themselves.
这仅仅是人们普遍对自己有良好看法的反映。
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。