New numbers from China's customs agency say the country's exports for 2009 were more than $1.2 trillion, slightly ahead of Germany.

VOA: standard.2010.01.11

It's one thing to plug in all the numbers and say, "I know Newton's laws and I know how they work."

我们平时只是把数字代进公式,然后说,"我懂牛顿定律,也知道怎么使用"

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Now, it's interesting because the other four books of the Pentateuch never mention a king. In Genesis through Numbers none of the legal materials say when you have a king this is what he shall do.

有趣的是，摩西五经中的其他四本经书,从来没有提到过国王，从《创世纪》到《民数记》,从没有一份正规的材料说,当你有了一位国王后，这些就是他应该做的事情。

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But analysts say the full picture will not be known until major retailers report holiday sales numbers in January.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

I would say, part of what we look at are hard quantitative factors, but probably more important than the numbers are the soft qualitative attributes.

我想,我们看重的,是一些硬性的量化因素,这可能比那些抽象的特质属性,更为重要

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But because of the numbers of employee deaths and the media attention they have attracted, critics say France Telecom's problems have emerged as a warning story about the downsides of valuing productivity and growth over employee well being.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

Well,that's going to inflate the numbers too because the only managers that kind of raise their hand and say, hey I've got this interesting new approach to managing domestic equities--or whatever the asset class is -are the ones that have succeeded.

当然是会让指数起点偏高,因为经理人倾向于提供那些,举手说找到有趣的新方法,来管理国内股权投资,或其他投资的,成功的历史数据

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