Postulating the effect is one thing; teasing it out from the cobweb of climatic feedback loops and estimating its magnitude is something else altogether.

假设其影响是一码事，在气候反馈循环的蛛丝马迹中对其研究，并评估其重要性则完全是另外一码事。

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I'd characterise it as unprecedented in the history of Myanmar and on an order of magnitude with the effect of the tsunami on individual countries.

我这样形容这次的大灾难，它在缅甸的历史上是空前的，而且带来的影响与之前几个受海啸破坏的个别国家相当。

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Our model can be used to estimate the magnitude and effect of other major impacts in Earth's past.

我们的模型可以被用于估计地球过去历史上曾有撞击的范围和影响。

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Even if the sequester goes into effect, the magnitude of the automatic cuts won't be very different from those imposed in 1986.

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Is the magnitude of effect, if any, associated with acupuncture for a given clinical indication 'worth it' from the perspective of patients, payers, or policymakers?

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At medical schools, pharma companies, and even at the FDA, biostatisticians and clinical researchers recognize that retrospective data when treated with appropriate bias-controlling statistical methods, can in fact be reliable, particularly as it points to direction of influence and the general magnitude of effect.

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