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Any decision-making of planning derives from evaluation of the project, so to make the last decision on rail transit planning of metropolis is to estimate and compare the pre-election planning scenarios and to select the first-rank one.

任何规划的决策最终都会归结为对规划方案的评价，因此都市圈轨道交通系统规划的决策也最终归结为对都市圈轨道线网规划方案的优劣进行评价。

Predicting sports talents at all levels shows: athletes of the first-rank and the second-rank teams in number are slightly increased annually, and athletes of third-rank sports team in number fall in the number.

对各级竞技体育人才进行预测发现，一二线运动队运动员人数逐年小幅增加，三线运动队运动员人数略有下降。

It is staffed by intelligent technocrats educated at first-rank universities ( Tsinghua and Peking) whose job is to preserve the status quo but who have a tenuous grip on events.

这个精英层由受过一流大学（类似于清华和北大）教育的聪明的技术型官僚组成，他们的职责就是维持现状，但他们对局势的控制力颇为薄弱。