ascertainment

基本解释

Ascertainment and optimization of urban land use structure is the hard core of urban planning.
城市土地利用结构的确定和优化是城市总体规划的核心内容。
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The ascertainment of tender cost price in combination with the practical case of Huizhou hydroelectricity construction engineering Ltd. Inc. Guangdong was analyzed.
结合广东省惠州市水电建筑工程有限公司的实际情况，对投标成本价的确定进行了分析。
To quote the authors of the 2009 CDC paper, "although improved ascertainment accounts for some of the increase, a true increase in the risk for ASD cannot be ruled out."
引用2009年CDC报道的作者的话说，“虽然改进了的探查能够说明这种增长的某些原因，但是ASD风险真正的增长原因仍不能排除。”

In other words, the text is what makes the ascertainment of meaning possible and available to us, but meaning is not in the text.
换言之,作品才是使含义得以传达的必要条件，但含义又并不在文本里。
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You don't really puzzle your head about questions of interpretation, how we determine the validity of interpretation and so on, until A) meaning becomes terribly important to you, and B) the ascertainment of meaning becomes difficult.
你一般不会在诠释，和如何确定诠释的正确与否，这样的问题上纠结，除非：1，意义对你来说很重要，2，确定意义很困难。
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Several panelists thought that the cancer signal may have reflected an ascertainment bias, and, further, that a young homozygous FH population would be less susceptible to an elevated cancer risk.
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