Giving money to private-equity managers, who then use debt to acquire quoted companies, is viewed in an entirely different light but amounts to the same gamble.

把钱给私募股本经理人，经理人拿来收购中意的企业，大家似乎觉得这个没啥风险，其实也是一样地在赌。

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Eighteen have ended up in jail, which may sound like quite a toll, but amounts to less than 2% of the names on the list—not so outlandish a proportion, Mr Hoogewerf argues.

18人进了监狱，这听起来似乎损失相当惨重，但不到上榜人数的2%，胡润先生认为这并不奇怪。

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It'll cost a lot—well, take a lot of time, but it amounts to the same thing.

会花很多—哦，得花大量时间，不过反正都是一回事。

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But all the structures remained standing thanks in large part to the large amounts of duct tape used by the students.

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But now, because my elements are going to take different amounts of memory, I'm going to do the following thing.

因为我们的元素大小不等,我们要这么做，在第一个点。

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But then they can also be toxic if taken in too large of amounts because the body does store them.

但如果摄入过量也会中毒,因为机体储存的脂溶性维生素也会过量

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Giving money to private-equity managers, who then use debt to acquire quoted companies, is viewed in an entirely different light but amounts to the same gamble.

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Under a former Offshore Voluntary Compliance Initiative (OVCI) announced by the IRS in January 2003, the IRS provided taxpayers who missed that initiative with a "last chance" opportunity to reduce penalties below their statutory maximum amounts but above the amounts offered in the OVCI program.

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At the same time, Ms. Palin's political action committee is raising decent but unspectacular amounts.

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