To establish such a chronology, it is necessary to determine the relative amounts of land ice that existed at various times in the Earth's past.

为了建立这样一个年表，有必要确定地球过去不同时期存在的陆冰的相对数量。

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So the words don’t stand for numbers, so much as relative amounts.

因此科学家推断，这些单词并不代表确切的数，而只具有相对量的意思。

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You can get an idea of the relative amounts of radiation various cellphone models emit by looking at their SAR, or specific absorption rate.

你可以通过查看不同手机型号的吸收率，来了解手机的辐射。

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Scientists figured that screens could detect an affected fetus by measuring the presence of elevated amounts of chromosome 21 sequences relative to other chromosomes.

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But as the preceding pages have already suggested, when secular lawyers treat Shariah as a black box that does not much concern them, except in the specific rulings relative to a given investment or transaction, this amounts to a willful avoidance of material facts.

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The dollars are the same relative to the effort, but shoppers tend to compare savings with purchase amounts.

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