Profits have risen by 15 per cent compared with the corresponding period last year.

与去年同期相比利润增长了15%。

《牛津词典》

His economic team is minor-league compared with the heavy hitters such as Robert Rubin who advised Bill Clinton.

和诸如罗伯特·鲁宾这类为比尔·克林顿出谋划策的显赫人物相比，他的经济顾问组显得有些逊色。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Lack of exercise is also a risk factor for heart disease but it's relatively small when compared with the others.

缺乏锻炼也是导致心脏病的一个因素。但和其他因素相比，这种危险较小。

《牛津词典》

Attorney General Holder said U.S.officials are closely cooperating with Mexico in the battle against La Familia and other drug cartels, a battle he compared with the one waged by law enforcement agencies against organized crime.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

Further, the nucleus is assumed to be the seat of the essential part of the mass of the atom, and to have linear dimensions exceedingly small compared with the linear dimensions of the whole atom."

进一步的，核被认为是,原子主要质量所在的地方，和整个原子线性尺度相比,核具有很好的线性尺度“

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I managed to find price indexes for Norway and Netherlands going back to 1890 and compared that with the U.S.

我找到了挪威和荷兰1890年的,价格指数数据,和当时的美国作比较

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That is big, but compared with the sums sloshing around in national foreign-aid budgets, it is not humungous.

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Overall, revenues are down 35%, compared with the first nine months of last year.

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The ruling coalition received only 39, 400 votes per seat won, compared with the opposition's 63, 200.

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