So she drove him home. If my brother had driven home from the bar that night, his number would have been up.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

So what this means is that this graph -this bar is significantly different from that one, this from that one, and this from that one, so they visually are different but they're also statistically different.

这就表示星形所在的这个柱子,与另外一个柱子差异显著,另外两列也是同样道理,它们不仅看起来有差别,而且在统计义上也有差异显著

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And Mark has been extraordinary, as a leader, in maintaining a very high bar and at times, walking away from people who are receiving outstanding recommendations but either don't fit from a cultural standpoint or they're not going to scale and they'd be the wrong person a year or two from now.

作为Facebook的领导者，马克始终坚持选人标准，从不手软，他经常会放弃一些,得到强有力推荐的应聘者,他们要么是在文化方面不契合,要么是因为，如果公司没打算扩张,那他们在一到两年内,会成为错误选择。

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But some take effect quickly. For example,in six months the new law will bar insurance companies from denying coverage to children with pre-existing health conditions.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

It would also bar insurance companies from denying coverage based on pre-existing medical conditions, and would limit their ability to impose large rate increases.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

Mr.Obama also says he wants to bar big banks from financial trading for their own benefit.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

The bar is called Pewex, the name of a chain of hard-currency stores from the communist era where Poles could buy Western products if they had the dollars.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

(Speaking in Polish) On one of Warsaw's popular party streets, young people crowd into a bar where everything from the derelict retro furniture to propaganda posters is designed to remind you of the 1970s.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

"We wanted to raise the bar a bit and right from the way in which we recruited the communications staff, to my own commitment to French, we've tried to build a communications team that is fluently bilingual.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

While the House bill would immediately bar private insurance companies from denying coverage or raising insurance premiums based on age or gender, the Senate would wait until 2014 for this to take effect, except for children who would be covered immediately.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25