Once this was done and the silt carried down by the rivers was planted, the rewards were rich: four to five times what rain-fed earth would produce.

一旦完成了这个，河流带来的淤泥会沉积在此处，回报是丰厚的：产量是被雨水滋养的土壤的四到五倍。

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You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there.

有时你必须想知道你正在做什么。

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A lot of times what they want isn't what I like, in terms of design philosophy.

从设计理念上说，很多时候，他们所追求的未必就是我喜欢的。

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Rates of breast cancer in Japan, Singapore and South Korea are now three times what they were forty years ago.

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But after that, the math is the same, eight times whatever, four times whatever, two times whatever, and so forth. So what's 7?

然后，计算方式是一样的，八位，四位，二位，等等，那7怎么表达呢？

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So, a lot of times what professors will do is they'll put up,

大多数情况下，教授们会公布之前的卷子，

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That figure is approximately five times what the nation spent to fight terrorism the previous year.

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China itself leads the world in peanut production, growing about eight times what the U.S. does.

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Even at that level, that's three times what the price was at the start of 1999.

BBC: The demon is out there