To sort out the confusion, Hashibe and her colleagues used statistical techniques to, in effect,make one big study out of the previous smaller studies.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

So if you think of a shell, you can actually just think of an egg shell, that's probably the easiest way to think of it, where the yolk, if you really maybe make it a lot smaller might be the nucleus.

可以把它想成，个蛋壳，这也许是，最简单的思考办法,蛋黄如果，缩小非常多倍的话,就可以想象成核子。

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So this is very similar, this is a kind of recursive thinking we talked about earlier, where we take our problem and we make it smaller we solve a smaller problem, et cetera.

我们则跳过比猜想数小的那个区间,然后我们重复这一过程,跟之前我们讲过的，递归思想非常类似,我们解决问题的时候,先把问题一步步变小，然后解决小问题。

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Studies say rising temperatures will melt glaciers on the high Himalayas, cause devastating floods,heatwaves, and make monsoon rains more erratic, resulting in smaller farm yields.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

that the negative particle travelled - it was deflected much, much further by those plates, what he could also assume and make the conclusion of is that the mass of that negative particle is actually larger or smaller?

因为他发现负电粒子,运动了很远,它被两块电板偏转了,非常非常远,所以他给出的结论是,负电粒子的质量,是比较大还是比较小？

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"But to spur lending to small businesses, it is essential that we make more credit available to the smaller banks and community financial institutions that these businesses depend on,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

I'm going to tort-- I'm going to make the font smaller so we can see more.

我们还没看到比较结果,好，你知道我要做什么了么？

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I didn't just make it one smaller, I made it a half smaller. That's a nice deal.OK.

我把它的规模减半了，这太棒了，好，但是我不会直接处理b是偶数这种情况的。

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