If the past is prologue, then it ought to be possible to draw some modest conclusions about the future from the wealth of data about America's present.
如果过去是一个序幕，那么应该有可能从有关美国现状的大量数据中得出一些关于未来的适度的结论。
So here is a modest proposal to liven up the next European council meeting, on 9 December. Over dinner, let Merkel present her vision of German Europe (more tactfully: German vision for Europe).
所以，这有一个关于使下一次于12月9日召开的欧洲议会会议活跃起来的谦虚提议。在宴会上，让默克尔介绍她的德国欧洲版本(非常机智地；德国的关于欧洲的版本。)
At present, says Dr Demkowicz, reactors burn only around 1% of their fuel, so even a modest increase in fuel burn would leave less radioactive waste.
Demkowicz博士称，现在核反应的燃料燃烧率仅为约1%，所以就算在燃烧率上提高不多，也会减少放射性废料的排放。
The CICE proposal, on the other hand, is more modest: it takes a facility already present in the language and makes it easier to use but does not offer any significant new functionality.
另一方面，CICE方案更简单：利用语言中已有的特性并使其更易于使用，但是没有增加重要的新功能。
The present round of industrial policy will no doubt produce some modest successes-and a crop of whopping failures.
最近这轮产业政策无疑会取得一定的成功，继而是一连串的巨大失败。
I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.
我宁可去做一个水管工或是小贩，盼望着在当前的环境里，可以找到些许独立自主的空间。
She said that since the majority of goods presented on counters were ordered last year, the price hike was relatively modest at present.
她说摆在柜台上的绝大部分货品都是去年定购的，目前价格上涨的幅度不大。
A pulse sequence, namely rotary echo, with modest excitation bandwidth and mere adjustment of the experimental parameters is proposed in the present article.
本文提出的旋转回波脉冲序列具有激发带宽适中，实验参数调整简单的特点，可广泛应用于固体样品的核磁共振谱测量中。
Are these so-called BV-associated bacteria sufficiently virulent to cause spontaneous preterm birth when present only in modest increased frequency?
这些所谓的BV相关细菌当阳性率轻度升高后是否足以导致自发性早产？
The proposals actually turned out to be more modest than the rumours, though they do focus the efforts of NASA, America's space agency, even more heavily on human spaceflight than at present.
其实提议要比谣言更谨慎些，尽管根据提议美国宇航局确实要比现在将更多的精力集中人类太空飞行上。
But he said that with a modest increase in the present sums, devoted by the EEC to this work it was possible that the breakthrough could be achieved by the end of the next decade.
但是他说如果再现今eec提供的资金总数上稍微增加，有望在下一个十年实现这一突破。
But he said that with a modest increase in the present sums, devoted by the EEC to this work it was possible that the breakthrough could be achieved by the end of the next decade.
但是他说如果再现今eec提供的资金总数上稍微增加，有望在下一个十年实现这一突破。
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