Fourth-quarter profits of big companies, such as Coca-Cola, IBM and DuPont, were better than expected .

可口可乐、IBM 和杜邦等大公司第四季度利润好于预期。

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Dr. Sasaki found, as expected, the participants slept less well on their first night than they did on their second, taking more than twice as long to fall asleep and sleeping less overall.

佐佐木教授发现，正如预期的那样，参与者们在第一晚的睡眠质量不如第二晚，入睡所需时间是第二晚的两倍多，且总体睡眠时间也更少。

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In a survey conducted for eCornell, the DL division of Cornell University, less than a third of the respondents expected the quality of the online course to be as good as the classroom course.

康奈尔大学远程教学部 eCornell 的调查结果显示，不到三分之一的受访者期待网络课程的质量和传统课堂一样好。

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And so this will only come as confirmation." A just-released nationwide survey of Afghans finds them more optimistic than expected, but still concerned about corruption and insecurity.

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As we expected, it's less than one, and of course if we build an engine, we want it to be as high as possible, as close to one as possible.

就像预先期待的一样，效率小于一，当然如果我们建造一台热机，我们希望效率越高越好，尽可能接近一。

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Consumer-spending growth would then remain buoyant rather than slackening as expected.

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In the area of personal companions, vendors such as Compaq were slower to roll out models than expected, as they struggled with issues related to Windows CE, Microsoft's operating system for handhelds.

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Management admitted that comparable store sales have been much weaker than expected as well.

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