That means a higher proportion of what is in the sea is being caught, so the real difference between present and past is likely to be worse than the one recorded by changes in catch sizes.

这意味着更多的海洋生物正在被捕捞，所以现在和过去之间的真正差异可能比捕捞量变化所记录的更糟糕。

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Yacon stores carbohydrates in the form of inulin, rather than glucose, which means a world of a difference for diabetics and dieters alike.

亚贡雪莲果碳水化合物的形式是菊糖，而非葡萄糖，这意味着它很受世界上不同的糖尿病患者和减肥人士的欢迎。

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That means that the Nasdaq and ICE would have to wait until next year's annual meeting to try and oust some of the NYSE's board members — way too late to make any difference.

这意味着纳斯达克和洲际交易所将必须等到明年的年度股东大会才能试图赶走纽交所的一些董事会成员——到时候可就太晚了，于事无补。

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The difference in speed also means a difference in mass of 50%.

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So conceptually the key difference here, besides the syntax looking slightly different, it just means that if you want a chunk of code to execute no matter what initially, ; you can use the do while loop; if you want to check a condition first, you can use the while loop.

所以概念上，则关键的区别是，除了语法看起来有点不同，它的意思是如果你想要一段代码,最初无论如何都要执行，你就可以用do，while循环;,如果你想要先检查条件，你可以用while循环。

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