He tried to push his hand through the gap but it wouldn't go.

他试着把手伸进豁口，可就是伸不进去。

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Just look at the gap between male and female employment rates in America, Japan and western Europe, as Kevin Daly, an economist at Goldman Sachs, does in a recent study (see the left-hand chart).

只要看看在美国、日本和西欧国家男性和女性就业率之间的差距，正如高盛集团经济学家凯文·戴利最近的一项研究(参见左手图)。

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On the other hand, the test suite we keep planning to write "soon" has been a major and noticeable gap; building more testing support earlier and using it more could have saved a lot of time.

另一方面，我们一直计划“不久以后”编写的测试套件存在一个重大且明显的差距；越早构建更多的测试支持，使用它节省的时间就越多。

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The striking gap between, on the one hand, the elegant polish of the narration, the silver rustle of these exquisite sentences, the poised narrowness of the social satire and, on the other hand, the screaming pain of the family violence inflicted on Patrick makes these books some of the strangest of contemporary novels.

NEWYORKER: Noble Savages

More advice on closing your own personal wage gap in the posts in the left-hand column.

FORBES: Why We Assume the Pay Gap Doesn't Apply to Us

This is why Mr Jobs has opened 101 retail stores around the world, their locations hand-picked by a former Gap manager.

ECONOMIST: The halo effect