At one extreme, for instance, the benefits to society include the bar code, IBM's version of which became the standard.

举一个极端的例子，对社会的贡献包括条形码，IBM的条形码后来成为标准。

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Standard Chartered strives to operate in a manner that meets or exceeds the ethical, legal, commercial and public expectations of society.

渣打银行在业务中努力达到或者超过社会在道德、法律、商业和公共事务方面对我们的预期。

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Here's a pretty standard definition: an externality is a cost or benefit that affects society but is not included in the market price of a good or service.

它有一个非常标准的定义：商品的一种成本或收益影响了他人，但这个成本或收益却没有相应的反映在商品的价格上。

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The reason for the fall in support appeared to be that pensioners felt the Tory government had allowed them to slip behind the rest of society in terms of their relative standard of living, and felt it had not proved trustworthy.

BBC: Going for grey

The fact that so many supposed conservatives liken a belief in a gold standard as the monetary equivalent of membership in the Flat Earth Society shows just how far the American public has come from a true understanding of how money works within an economy.

FORBES: Give The Gold Standard Its Due

In March, wet weather was also blamed for a fall in the number of Welsh beaches reaching the top EU bathing water standard in the Marine Conservation Society's Good Beach Guide.

BBC: Whitesands Bay in Pembrokeshire