Amazon also stated that sales of its Kindle e-book reader have tripled since it cut the price from $260 to $190, although Amazon did not provide any hard numbers about the number it had sold.

亚马逊的统计显示，自从他们将Kindle（译者：亚马逊自己出品的电子书阅读器）的售价从260美元下调至190美元后，Kindle的销量量提高了整整3倍，但亚马逊没有公布具体的销售数字。

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EXAMPLE: The boss was skeptical of the new proposal, but when he saw that hard numbers from our finance department supported it, he was convinced.

老板对这份新建议曾持怀疑态度，但当他从我们的财务部看到新建议有确凿的数据支持时，他被说服了。

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Wherever possible, use percentages, hard numbers, and dollar figures.

如果可能的话，使用百分比、硬数据和美元数字。

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Numbers are hard. That's why we teach whole semesters worth of courses in number theory.

因此我们整个学期关于数学理论,的学习也是物有所值。

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I would say, part of what we look at are hard quantitative factors, but probably more important than the numbers are the soft qualitative attributes.

我想,我们看重的,是一些硬性的量化因素,这可能比那些抽象的特质属性,更为重要

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So, for example, if you're the kind of person, which is I have to say all I ever was, if you're the kind of person who can kick the ball fairly hard but not very accurately, then it actually might change these numbers.

比如你是这样的一种人,我也不得不承认我以前也是这种人,如果你是那种能够大力抽射,但是精准度不高的人,那这些数据对你就不太准了

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But, the other reality is that he has no dominion over cold, hard numbers.

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Yahoo is well placed to benefit from any shift from blind faith to hard numbers.

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Government agencies generally decline to release figures, and software firms shy from discussing hard numbers.

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