那种直观比较分析中一个（特点）是：这种比较对过去所有的年份一视同仁。

Part of the straightforwardness of that analysis is that it treats all the previous years equally.

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在资金比较容易的年份，欧洲南部的工资及价格远远超过欧洲北部。

During the years of easy money, wages and prices in southern Europe rose substantially faster than in northern Europe.

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而为了测定降水量，他们则对长在低海拔地区的栎树的年轮宽度进行研究，因为这些树在雨水比较充沛的年份长得更快。

To gauge precipitation, they looked at tree ring widths in lower-elevation oaks, which grow faster in years with higher levels of rainfall.

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In previous years we were even higher, so this was low this year.

前几年的答案比这更高,今年还是比较低的年份

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