"The more data government has, the better it can enforce crimes. But it also has some pretty significant disadvantages.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

And in the--from 1989 to 2006 there was a pretty significant decline, but even in 1989 the numbers weren't very high.

我们看到,从1989到,2006年有个很明显的下降,但是即使是在1989年这个数字也不高

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

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

The hedge fund world is 7.1% first to third quartile, real estate 9.3% per annum, leveraged buyouts 13.7% per annum this is over a ten-year period, so now we're starting to talk about some pretty significant dispersion.

在对冲基金中,这个差距有7.1%,不动产投资中的差距是9.3%,杠杆收购中是每年13.7%,以上都是十年期收益,我们现在谈的是,一些显著的差距

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"Shopping centers are huge in China. Fifty-thousand square meters is considered a tiny shopping center, which anywhere else in the world is considered a pretty significant center."

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

For example, Frito-Lay, before they really had to because of bad publicity, took out all of the Trans fats in their products and that was -they're the largest snack manufacturer in the world so that was a pretty significant advance for the healthiness of their foods.

例如,菲多利,为免受到舆论谴责,他们在政策发布前,就已剔除了其所有产品中的反式脂肪,他们是世界上最大的零食生产厂商,这对他们产品的健康程度也是一大提升

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