They borrow the characters from what had been already something quite close to an alphabet and had only a relatively small number.

他们从十分接近字母系统的书写体系中,借来字符使用,而这些字符相对较少

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so that the relatively small distances like from San Francisco to LA, we travel through Greyhound bus

所以相对比较短的距离，比方说从旧金山到洛杉矶，我们坐灰狗汽车，

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That's--that accounts for relatively small number of the overall cases of Type I Diabetes.

型糖尿病患者,占患者总人数的比率相对较小

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The differences in wealth among their citizens were relatively small.

在城邦中,市民贫富差距,相对较小

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You could do that with a relatively small number.

这个试验可在一个相对较小的范围内开展

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People used to consume a relatively small percentage of their calories from beverages, but for a variety of reasons including marketing, the percentage of calories from other beverages other than things like milk has gone way up.

人们过去通过饮料摄入的热量,所占比例相对较少,但是由于很多原因,其中包括市场营销,除了牛奶这类饮品以外,其他饮料中的热量比例直线上升

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