But when we come to where the large significant populations are, which is the Congo basin, then we find that it's the bush meat trade that's the commercial hunting of wild animals for food.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

Very similar, parallel stories, and yet there are significant contrasts between the Mesopotamian story and its Israelite adaptation.

比较苏美尔版与犹太人版的故事,非常相似，但是同时有很大的对比。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But there are also some pretty significant things going on

但同时也有很多很重要的事情在发生，

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Law enforcement officials say they are keeping him busy with interrogations - and that he's giving them significant information.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

Now if you look at the quotes and the folio edition There're many cases where there are significant diversions.

现在假如你看第一对开本和引语本,还有很多很不一样的地方。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

"It is a pretty significant earthquake,". "Given the size and location, we are anticipating some significant damage from the region."

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

There are many significant differences between the two creation stories.

它们之间有很大的不同。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

There has to be some significant reform of the system,". The budget problems are not unique to Miami.

VOA: standard.2009.05.22

In all cases, these are significant variations from what the recommended dietary intake should be.

所有这些中,实际摄入量,和推荐摄入量之间都有着巨大的差异

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"There are very significant capabilities that Dow has that they are bringing to bear in this process,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

There just aren't pricing anomalies that are significant that are going to resolve themselves in a matter of months or weeks and so it's a silly game to play.

显著失常的定价,不会在短短几月或几周内,就在市场中显示出来,因此类似月进月出那些是一种愚蠢的行为

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

There are still significant details and disagreements to be worked out in the coming weeks.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

This just illustrates how massive this computations are, how significant they are.

这正解释了这些计算指令是多么庞大，多么重要。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

"Given the size and location, we are anticipating some significant damage from the region."

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

We give you a very rich table of constants that's got all kinds of things from the mass of the electron to the speed of light, and all this stuff to the requisite number of significant figures. And, in addition, you are allowed to take in one sheet of paper, 8 1/2 x 11 one sheet 8 1/2 x 11, you can write anything you want on it.

我们会给你一个很详实的常量表,将会涉及很多方面，从元素的电子,到光速，这些内容到有效数字的定量,还有，你们可以带来一张纸，纸的规格是，可以写任何你们想写的东西。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Although many so-called "new" artists are veteran performers, the rules stipulate they may be considered if they achieved a significant breakthrough during the current eligibility period.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

You have what are called stubs, where one public company owns a significant stake . in another public company.

假如你持有所谓的票根，它是指一家上市公司在另一家上市公司中所,持有的相当比例的股份。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Patients undergoing long-term elective surgeries are advised to donate their own blood, a practice Dr.Mwanda says accounts for a significant percentage of the hospital's surgery blood supply.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

I circled this P -if any of you have taken statistics will know what that means, but it's the statistical term that tells you how significant these findings are.

我重点圈起了P,学过统计学的就知道这是什么意思,这是统计学的术语,它告诉我们,这些数据的重要程度

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Though high rates of infection are still plaguing countries like Nigeria, other countries including Senegal, Gambia and Rwanda have seen significant progress thanks to awareness campaigns and improved treatment.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

Declarations,commitments and speeches don't feed hungry people, He says the scale of the challenge is significant. There are more than one billion poor and hungry people in the world today.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

Bigger livestock herds are putting greater pressure on land resources and disrupting some ecosystems and the animals generate significant amounts of water and air pollution, including methane, a climate-changing greenhouse gas.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

"But having said that, relations are certainly better than they were at the end of 2008, when there were significant tensions between Moscow and Washington in the aftermath of the Russia-Georgia war.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee. "I think there are a significant number of people in the country who have, and I don't know the exact percentages, that have questions about deepening our military involvement in Afghanistan,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

"I think that,because it looks like the top four parties are going to be relatively close to one another, it is going to require a significant amount of political maneuvering, brokering deals, a lot of horse-trading behind closed doors to form a government.

VOA: standard.2010.03.12

"And when people have fears, they are not going to buy and so there's going to be a significant pullback of consumer confidence, pullback of consumer trust in their products, which is going to reach all the way down into their sales,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

U.N.Special Representative Radhika Coomaraswamy says during the past year, a significant number of child soldiers were released by the National Liberation Forces in Burundi and more children are to be released in the Central African Republic and the Philippines as a result of active intervention by the United Nations.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16