In other words, organic matter gets broken down and added into the soil more quickly in these gaps than in the surrounding forest.

换句话说，这些空地上的有机物分解并进入土壤的速度比周围森林中的更快。

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These gaps reflect entrenched differences. Some of them are cultural.

这个差距反映了根深蒂固的分歧，其中有一些是文化因素。

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However, these gaps have not narrowed evenly for everyone, everywhere.

然而，这些差距的缩小对于每个人和每个地区来说是不平衡的。

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So what we've tried to do is to fill some of these gaps in the meantime.

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In fact, there ought to be documents and people who could help fill in these gaps.

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Still, if CreditMetrics encourages banks to fill in these gaps themselves, it will have served a purpose.

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