While the summer months have been traditionally slow for China's auto industry, the comparison base for August was low as sales had begun falling in the second half of 2008.

尽管夏季通常是中国汽车行业的销售淡季，但由于去年下半年中国汽车销量开始大幅下滑，导致今年8月份的同比比较基数较低。

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The GDP revision means China's year-to-year growth will have a higher comparison base for the second and following quarters, so the growth may be lower than economists' expectations.

GDP增幅的修订意味着二季度及接下来的几个季度，中国的同比增长将有一个更高的比较基础，因此增幅可能会低于经济学家的预期。

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I obtained or created four base documents for purposes of comparison in this article.

本文中，我获取或创建了四个基本文档用于比较的目的。

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Recently, for a consulting client, I did a rough comparison between their customer base (which tended to be young, information-intensive companies) and a benchmark comparison set from the mainstream economy.

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