This flexibility that SQL exhibits is not always desirable, because different but equivalent SQL formulations can deliver wildly different performance.

SQL展示的这一灵活性并不总是称心的，因为形式不同但功能等价的SQL公式可以提供非常不同的性能。

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Teams whose payrolls exceed a given threshold would be subject to a punitive tax and prevented from taking advantage of most exceptions to the cap, making it all but equivalent to a firm ceiling.

总薪资超过给定上限的球队将会受到惩罚性的税收，而且不能动用绝大部份的封顶免除，这使得该封顶基本上等同于一个硬性封顶。

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But if I want to do it all in one shot, what is the equivalent step I should take?

但我如果想要一步完成,那我应该用什么样的等价步骤呢

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But you had the equivalent in Amsterdam as well.

不过在阿姆斯特丹也一样

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p1 I said let's do this slowly enough that this p1 is in equilibrium with this p1, but not so slowly that this pressure is equivalent to that pressure.

我曾说过我们足够慢地使这边的1,与这边的p1平衡，但是没有慢到,这里的压强等于这里的压强。

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Multiplying both sides of the equation by minus one gives you an equivalent (not similar but equivalent) statement.

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The more casual but definitionally equivalent really also appears high up on the list.

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But reserves equivalent to four weeks' worth of imports would be more than enough.

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