By 2014, at current rates of relative growth, China's economy will pass the US, in absolute size, to be the biggest in the world, at PPP.

按照当前两国的相对增长速度，以购买力平价计算，到2014年，中国经济的绝对规模将超过美国，成为世界第一大国。

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This increase in absolute enrollment has come against the backdrop of one of the highest population growth rates in the world.

但与其身为世界人口高增长率的国家相对比，这入学率的增长并不乐观。

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They compared the success rates of different families with absolute brain size, relative brain size, and the size of the social groups that the species form in the wild.

他们利用单独大脑尺寸、相对大脑尺寸和物种在野外建立的社会群体大小比较了不同科动物进行试验的成功率。

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The comparison with America aside, the absolute level of interest rates has fallen to unprecedented levels.

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This is the usual confusion between absolute levels and rates of change.

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The researchers compared the suicide and cardiovascular death rates in the study-- which were very low, in absolute terms-- with those in the general male population in the United States.

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