The aim of the agreement was to prevent the improper use of the country's bank secrecy laws, and its effect was to curb severely the system of secrecy.

该协议的目的是防止人们不恰当地使用该国的银行保密法规，它的效果是严厉遏制保密制度。

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The traffic laws don't take effect until the end of the year.

交通法要到年底才生效。

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Later working together in London, they laid the foundations of modern physics by showing that normal laws of cause and effect do not apply at the level of subatomic particles.

后来，他们在伦敦一起工作，证明了正常的因果法则并不适用于亚原子粒子，从而奠定了现代物理学的基础。

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A new study has found the strongest evidence yet that smoke-free laws can reduce a major effect of tobacco smoking - heart disease.

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It's determined by the laws of nature that the effect that follows will follow from that cause.

自然法则决定了,这个结果必然跟随这个原因产生

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In court, O'Connor's demeanor is serious and studied, her questions spare and pointed on the practical effect of laws.

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The effect of such laws is not to erase the existence of these verboten risks, but to force low-risk patients to shoulder substantially higher premiums.

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But the effect of the new laws, says Michael Williams of the Bond Market Association in New York, could be simply to push secondary-market participants, fearful of liability, out of the sub-prime business altogether.

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