Bigger livestock herds are putting greater pressure on land resources and disrupting some ecosystems and the animals generate significant amounts of water and air pollution, including methane, a climate-changing greenhouse gas.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

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

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

So if you need help, you probably will get a significant amount of help.

所以如果你需要帮助，你就会得到很多有用的帮助。

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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

That's for those people who really want to push themselves and want to advance a really significant piece of thinking about a novel.

这是针对那些确实想进步,想在小说理解方面更进一大步的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The Tea Party movement, which takes its name from a significant American Revolutionary War event, played a significant role in drumming up grassroots opposition to President Barack Obama's health care reform plan and in raising concerns about the country's growing budget deficit.

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

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

"This was a hugely significant attack plan. With that number of aircraft, with the types of destination that were being talked about, it is conceivable to think of upwards of 2,000 casualties in the air depending on the point of detonation whether others would have been caught on the ground as well.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

What you have is with a simple calculation five significant figures.

你有的是,一个简易的计算器和五根手指。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But politics is (takes) a long, long time to make any significant, long-lasting difference."

VOA: special.2010.05.09

They pour with such a force, I think, that Milton permits - I think this is a significant rift that fissures or fractures the otherwise seamless text that we have in Book Two.

他们的出现是这样的有力与突然，我认为这是弥尔顿允许的,我认为这是一个极有价值的裂痕,这些裂痕持续地在我们读到的第一册书中出现。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"So if you have hoarseness with tobacco or alcohol use, that would be a significant risk factor for cancer or other problems of the throat that could be serious.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

So, one thing to remark about this game, one thing that we've learned immediately, is that this game is different in a significant way.

这个博弈中最明显的一点,也是直接能观察出来的是,这个博弈和其他博弈有很大不同

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Two voters in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, where there is a significant Taliban presence, had their ink-stained fingers chopped off by insurgents.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

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

"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

What is really significant -I created this plot just a couple of years, in 2005.

其重大意义在与,我创作的这部分内容,还没过几年,是在2005年写的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

From a global viewpoint [it's not only Cambodia a lot of countries have not made significant progress in terms of maternal deaths,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

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

"So KickStart went forward to design a range of agricultural technologies, the most significant of which has been the foot-powered treadle pump."

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

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

And,he notes, a significant portion of Venezuela's dwindling oil production is donated to Cuba and other leftist-led countries.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

But finally,there was a significant difference on alcoholism, the number of people who became how many people were able to getting to do "the white collar" jobs.

酗酒方面两组有显著差异，酗酒人数有差异,成为白领的人数,两组有差异。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The document also says "Iran continues to pose a significant challenge to Iraq's long-term stability and political independence.

VOA: standard.2009.03.31

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

So, that's a very significant difference.

所以这是个很巨大的差异

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But the U.N.-backed Election Complaints Commission is ordering a significant recount of ballots from every province covering 10 percent of all polling stations.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

The ritual cult of the Israelites may look like that of their neighbors but it functioned very differently; its purpose was drastically different from that of Israel's neighbors. The Israelites like their neighbors may have set up a king over themselves. But Israelite monarchy differed from Canaanite monarchy in significant ways because of their monotheism.

从祭拜仪式上看，以色列人和邻国类似,但操作起来很不一样，而目的则完全相反,以色列人可能会像邻国那样,拥立一位君主，然而受一神论的影响,以色列的君主政体和迦南地区的有明显差异。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

and it's going to be followed by a significant bear market

然后接下来会是个很大的熊市，

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