但近年来，IQ 的可信度和重要性都大大提高了。

But in recent years IQ has had much more credibility and weight.

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蒸汽动力不仅可以用于纺织棉花和轧铁；新世纪早期，蒸汽机的使用同样大大提高了造纸的效率，蒸汽动力一天所生产的纸张总量是单个工人一天生产纸张总量的10倍。

Steam power did not merely spin cotton and roll iron; early in the new century, it also multiplied ten times over the amount of paper that a single worker could produce in a day.

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该市已经提出了一系列的水资源处理和保护项目，这些项目的成本大大提高了水费，以至于连环保人士也开始发出警告。

The city has proposed a number of water treatment and conservation projects the cost of which raises water bills high enough so that even environmentalists are beginning to raise alarms.

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