News of the widening trade gap, along with several other gloomy economic reports, contributed to a 2.5 - percent drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Wednesday.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

This infinitesimal gap-- and this gap is known as a synapse-- and what happens is when a neuron fires, an axon sends chemicals shooting through the gap.

这个极小的缝隙,这个缝隙就叫做突触,当神经元产生神经冲动后,轴突会释放出能够穿透缝隙的化学物质

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The gap could be about one ten-thousandths of a millimeter wide.

这个缝隙大约只有0.1微米那么宽

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Apple fans and enthusiasts were eager to finally purchase an iPad,a tablet computer with a touch-screen that Apple claims will "bridge the gap" between a cell phone and a laptop computer.

VOA: standard.2010.04.03

They had a little bit of a problem around World War II and you can try to bridge the gap, but--anyway, there are people who have tried to sort this out.

他们在二战期间的数据可能有所缺失,不过可以试着弥补这个缺失,但是,无论如何,仍然有人想方设法整理这些数据

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"To close this important gap in our regulatory structure, legislative action is needed that would subject all systemically-important financial institutions to the same framework for consolidated supervision that currently applies to bank holding companies."

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

This is a mechanism by which an electrical signal comes here, it gets translated into a chemical signal, the chemical diffuses across the gap and reinitiates a - an electrical signal in the next cell and that's one way that it happens.

这就是电信号产生的机理,电信号翻译成化学信号,化学物质扩散过突触间隙,重新激起下个细胞中的电信号,这是一种方式

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Compound that 13.4% over ten years and there's just an enormous gap between those mutual fund numbers that are in the prospectus and in the advertisement--the time-weighted returns and the dollar-weighted returns that talk about the actual experience of the investment community.

按13.4%复利算一下10年期的结果,你会发现在招股说明书和广告里给出的,用来反映投资机构实际业绩水平的,时间加权回报率,和货币加权回报率数字之间,有着巨大的差异

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