Unfortunately, both were told before the flight to say they were CAT employees, which was at variance with the official cover story that they were US Army civilians on a commercial flight.

不幸的是，他俩在飞行前都被告知，说他们要自称是CAT的雇员。而这与官方声称的他们是进行商业飞行的美国陆军文职人员的说法不符。

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This, too, was something which was completely at variance with the known laws of nature.

这同样完全不符合当时已知的自然法则。

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Mr Hain, a former Welsh Secretary, said the minister's "curious statement" was at variance with constructive meetings he had had with other ministers, including David Cameron.

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The point was to equalize the variance of the numbers among different eras by looking at how the all-time greats statistically stacked up to their peers during the time in which they played.

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