A chemical found to cause cancer in rats and mice was later found to reduce the size of some cancers in humans, years after it had been deemed useless.

一种使大鼠和小鼠致癌的化学物质，后来发现可减少人类某些癌症的大小，数年后该作用又被证明无效。

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And for some reason, I thought the hospital that I was in a taxi racing toward was gonna be a nice little hospital, about twice the size of this restaurant.

出于某种原因，我想那家我正坐车疾驰而向的那家医院应该是家可爱的小医院，大概有这个餐馆的两倍大。

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To prove him wrong, she went to her study, which was a den of deep-pile silk rugs and pillows the size of armchairs, to create some scenes of a marriage that was both perfect and hilarious.

为了证明他不对，她去了书房，书房是长毛绒地毯和枕头窝，有扶手椅那么大小，这给他们既完美又趣味横生的婚姻创造了些氛围。

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Plaid Cymru was also concerned about the increased size of some seats, and the ability of MPs to keep in touch with constituents across large rural areas.

BBC: Wales

Its loan book was five times the size of Hokuyo's: some 17, 000 Hokkaido companies borrowed from it.

ECONOMIST: Japanese banks

But he said the main salary costs were governed by the size of the force, adding that it was not worthwhile for some officers to become a chief constable "because you could be losing money coming from one force going to the other".

BBC: Hunt widens for new police chief