对于一个从未接受过正式的设计或技术培训的人来说，这已经时间相当意思的事了，更何况他还是一家大公司的首席执行官（他发明的专利数量之多令所有高管同行们相形见绌）。
Pretty interesting for someone with no formal design or technical training, much less the CEO of a major corporation. (His patent count eclipses that of any of his CEO counterparts.)
但数量最为庞大的资金则被油气出口国用于(或提议用于)基础设施建设，其规模令前述开支相形见绌。
But far and away the most lavish sums are being spent or proposed by oil and gas exporters on infrastructure.
他过上一段好日子的时候，身高1米64，一位身材纤长的姑娘进入了他的生活。他的身高在上司、军士、贵族或对手面前，明显相形见绌。
He was five-foot-four on a good day, easily dwarfed by bosses, army sergeants, aristocrats or rivals for the willowy girls who strolled into his life.
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