We can actually have any radius, but some radii just have much, much smaller probabilities of actually being significant or not.

非常非常小，以至于,无关紧要,我们今天。

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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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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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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

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which is significant is that lot got reading about those websites but almost no one saw them, because they were removed from public view within a few minutes after the shooting took place in the high school.

重要的是,很多人都知道了他们的网站,但没有几个人真正上过这个网站，因为这一事实被掩盖于公众眼前,不过几分钟的时间在枪击案,发生在高中里。

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I have a way to account for that, but it's going to take to the end of my argument to do that, so I'm going to argue that that's significant, but I'm not going to talk about why it's significant yet.

我对那有自己的理解，但是我在最后才会告诉你们，我要跟你们说，那点的意义是非常重大的，但我现在还不能谈论它的重大意义。

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So, in terms of wavelength, Wakefield has the largest wavelength, but in terms of being significant, we're still not even close.

所以，Wakefield投出的球，有最大的波长，但是从可比性来讲，它实际仍未接近球的尺寸。

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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。

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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。

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When Evans found writing at Knossos, he found two-- well, he actually found seven, but only two that turned out to be significant-- two kinds of script.

当埃文斯在克诺索斯发现文字,他找到两种,事实上他一共找到了七种,不过只有两种被认为比较重要,这两种手迹

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The only thing that's different is that they're one down on the periodic table, potassium is down one row, so it's going to be a little bigger, but when we're thinking about size, it maybe does not seem that significant to talk about the size.

它们唯一的不同点,就在于其中一个在周期表的下面，钾在下一行，因此它要稍微大一些，但是当我们考虑尺寸的时候，似乎讨论尺寸的意义不大。

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I circled this P -if any of you have taken statistics will know what that means, but it's the statistical term that tells you how significant these findings are.

我重点圈起了P,学过统计学的就知道这是什么意思,这是统计学的术语,它告诉我们,这些数据的重要程度

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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。

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