Some biologists hypothesize that a plant will stop growing if it's in the shade of another plant, a reaction that's triggered when it senses an unusual ratio of red light to far-red light.

一些生物学家假设，如果一株植物处在另一株植物的荫蔽下，它就会停止生长，当它感知到红光与远红光的不寻常比例时，反应就会触发。

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It's not that the overall gender ratio in this country is out of whack; it's that there's a growing imbalance between the number of successful young women and successful young men.

这并不是说国内性别比例已经失调，而是由于年轻的成功女性和年轻的成功男性数量差别越来越大。

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Application design is rebalancing the ratio of code to content using SOA; that is, a huge amount of SOA-delivered content is available and is growing.

应用程序设计使用SOA改变了代码和内容的比例，出现了大量通过SOA提供的内容，并且不断增长。

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Immigrants are in general younger, and our best way to fight against a growing ratio of retirees to workers.

FORBES: Does An Aging Population Hurt The Economy?

The U.S. already has a higher debt to GDP ratio than EU (17) and is growing that debt at an unsustainable 8% of GDP per annum.

FORBES: Europe's Solution Isn't More Inflation

One in three global purchases on eBay involve a mobile touch point, and the growing popularity of mobile devices as Internet access points could see the ratio go up in the coming years.

FORBES: Mobile Transactions Will Dictate How Strong eBay's Earnings Are