"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

The oil futures market is very significant because it represents the price of energy on dates into the future.

石油期货市场对我们来说意义重大,因为它代表,未来的能源价格

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That space is about 20 to 40 nanometers, it's not a very big space, but it's a significant space.

这个空间距离大概有20到40纳米,不是很大 但是意义重大

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

We believe it is quite inconvenient for the region to devote such significant economic resources to purchasing arms.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

So 1.1 times 10 to the -31 meters is not, in fact, a significant number when we're comparing it, for example, to the length of a ball, or the size of the baseball field.

所以1，1乘以10的负31次方米，事实上并不是一个很重要的数字，举例来说，当它与一个球的长度，或者一块棒球场地对比时。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"It is a significant find within Sierra Leone because it has never happened before in Sierra Leone."

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

And nothing else is going to make a significant contribution to it, OK?

并没有什么其他的因素,会对它有明显贡献？

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Julie Dutton is a geophysicist with the U.S.Geological Survey: "It is a pretty significant earthquake,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

One of the million complications of thinking about this lecture is indeed to what extent it really is a significant departure from the work of structuralism.

对这场讲座,它在何种程度上,是对结构主义的背离。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The study also found that the age of the father can play a role, although it is not as significant as the age of the mother.

VOA: standard.2010.02.10

And the answer that strikes me as most plausible is, it's the very fact that there's a significant chance of death that helps explain why people do this.

让我觉得最似乎合理的答案是，正是有很大的死亡的可能性这个事实,解释了为什么人们这么做。

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"Whether or not they blame Karzai for that personally, I think that there is a general sense among significant parts of the population that it may be time for a change.

VOA: standard.2009.08.03

So we talked about changing ourselves, how it's possible the "growing-tip" statistics which is the second significant idea within research in positive psychology: " first significant idea is "let's study what works" " the second significant idea is "let's study what works best".

我们讨论过改变自己，为什么成长尖端统计学,会是积极心理学研究中的,第二个重要理念：,第一个重要理念是“研究可行的事“,第二个重要理念是“研究最优秀的个体。

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"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

So if we compare l increasing here, so a 3 s to a 3 p to a 3 d, what we find is that it's only in the s orbital that we have a significant probability of actually getting very close to the nucleus.

我们比较当ｌ变大的时候，从３ｓ到３ｐ到３ｄ,我们可以发现只有ｓ轨道,有很大的概率,非常接近原子核。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

But it turns out the probability is only significant within one angstrom.

但概率主要,分布在一个埃范围内。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Nevertheless, to secure the distinction in actual practice, to say, "Okay. This is the meaning and now this is how I'm going to make it significant" -well, it seems unlikely indeed that this is something anyone could ever accomplish.

然而，若在实际操作中,你试着去体现这个区别，你会说，好的，这是意思,现在我来将它变成意义“,可是，实际上似乎谁都,无法完成这个任务。

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