In April the European Parliament forced the European Commission, which had been set to ratify the standard, to delay its vote pending further study.

4月份，欧洲议会对欧盟委员会施加压力，要求其暂时推迟新准则的投票，以等待更进一步的研究结果。

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Indeed, a study in 2007 calculated the climate mitigation benefits of the ozone treaty as totalling the equivalent of 135bn tonnes of C02 since 1990, or a delay in global warming of seven-12 years.

事实上，2007年的一项研究曾计算出这项臭氧保护条约对减缓气候变化的利处：自1990年以来共减少了1350亿吨二氧化碳当量的排放，或者说，推迟全球变暖7 - 12年。

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In a potentially landmark study on the biology of aging and how to delay it, a drug gave elderly mice the human equivalent of thirteen extra years of life.

在生物衰老和如何延缓衰老的潜在的里程碑式的研究中，一种药物使老年小鼠延长了相当于人类13年的寿命。

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But a new study from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland found no need to delay.

VOA: special.2010.08.11

Yet another study showed that Americans without medical insurance, often delay going to a hospital after a heart attack.

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On Nov. 19, after the companies offered repeated explanations for a long delay in the study, Forbes was the first to raise questions about ENHANCE.

FORBES: Schering-Plough Backdates Trial

On Nov. 19, just after Forbes reported on the delay of the study, said they would change the method being used for measuring artery plaque.

FORBES: The Vytorin Consensus

The same goes for the long delay in the study--if outside experts had been named ahead of time to make decisions about the data, there would be no debate over whether Merck and Schering did the right thing with regard to this trial.

FORBES: Vytorin's Missing Fail-Safes