Smaller fashion companies like Versace are under the most pressure, because they lack the financial firepower and economies of scale that larger rivals are tapping to ride out Japan's economic woes.

像范思哲这样较小的时装公司是压力最大的，原因是它们缺乏较大竞争对手用以应对日本经济低迷的财务实力和规模经济。

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The economic reverse is opening up spare capacity on a scale that will exert big downward pressure on prices even though the steep fall in the value of the pound has made imports dearer.

经济突变正在开启剩余生产力，其规模足以给物价下调施加很大压力，尽管英镑的价值斗降已经使进口商品更贵了。

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The two events are linked by a large-scale pattern of atmospheric circulation which is producing a particularly persistent area of high pressure over Russia.

这两起事件与一种大规模的大气环流模式有关，该模式正在俄罗斯上空形成一片持续时间很久的高气压区。

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And so now, instead of using these reference points for the Kelvin scale, we use the absolute zero, which isn't going to care what the pressure is.

就像理想气体温标,与气体的种类无关一样，具有普适性，在开尔文温标中。

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But even if mutual funds are here to stay, they are increasingly under pressure to scale down their fat fees.

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We can certainly expect public demands and political pressure to scale back drilling off our shores, which will only serve to exacerbate the coming gap between supply and demand.

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Appearing before the assembly's public accounts committee on Tuesday, Mr Sissling agreed with the "realistic and reasonable assessment of the scale of pressure in the NHS".

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