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Rather than using index cards, they store customer data on disk or magnetic tape, one record per subscriber.

发行人把订户的数据存在磁盘或磁带上，为每个订户准备了一个记录，而不是使用索引卡片。

A significant change is the panel's use of the term persistent rather than chronic pain, which connotes negative stereotypes of malingering, futility in treatment, or drug-seeking behavior.

最大的变化是专家小组将慢性疼痛变成了顽固性疼痛，这意味著否定了装病、无意义的治疗或药物依赖性的行为。

In the Victorian age, as in many traditional and religious cultures today, love was not the guiding force that led to marriage. Rather, marriage was contracted by convention - either by the respective families or with the help of a marriage broker.

在维多利亚时代，和今天大多数的传统宗教文化一样，爱情并不是婚姻的主导力量，而是风俗控制了婚姻，连双方家庭以及媒人也无法掌控。

Throughout my work, the expression method is not the core, rather I prefer to focus on the elements of the masochistic and ironic humor or the comical tragedy.

在我所有的作品中，表达方式并不是重点，而是想聚焦於被害者的特性，以及讽刺性的幽默或是卡通式的悲剧。

Mayhew concluded that it is rather difficult to tell whether derivative markets worsen financial-market volatility, because their creation tends to come when existing financial markets already are more volatile, or can be predicted to become so.

梅休的结论是：确定衍生品市场是否加剧了金融市场的动荡非常困难，因为金融衍生品市场本身就是在现有金融市场波动加剧、或预计有可能波动加剧的情况下才得以创立。

Mayo would probably rather be in Miami this season, and not because of the beaches or bikinis.

梅奥这赛季可能会选择待在迈阿密，不是因为那里的美女和海滩。

That may spare Charlie and me some embarrassment, since you don't see these errors; but their invisibility does not reduce their cost. In this mea culpa, I am not talking about missing out on some company that depends upon an esoteric invention, high-technology, or even brilliant merchandising. We will never develop the competence to spot such businesses early. Instead I refer to business situations that Charlie and I can understand and that seem clearly attractive - but in which we nevertheless end up sucking our thumbs rather than buying. Every writer knows it helps to use striking examples, but I wish the one I now present wasn't quite so dramatic: In early 1988, we decided to buy 30 million shares (adjusted for a subsequent split) of Federal National Mortgage Association, which would have been a $350-$400 million investment.

通常我们很多重大的错误不是发生在我们已经做的部份，而是在于我们没有去做的那部份，虽然因为各位看不到这些失误，所以查理跟我可以少一点难堪，但看不到不代表我们就不必付出代价，而这些我公开承认的错误，并不是指我错过了某些革命性的新发明，高科技或是更优秀的通路零售商，我们永远不可能拥有在早期发掘这些优秀公司的能力，反而我指的是那些查理跟我可以很容易就了解且很明显对我们有吸引力的公司，无奈在当时我们只是不断地咬着指甲犹豫不决，就是不能下定决心把他们买下来。

Now I can't remember what book I was then reading sitting on the stone slab under the Chinese white poplar as the mainstream of that day's memory was about being rather book, or more precisely a person and a dog.

我现在已记不得那天坐在毛白杨下的青条石上看的是什么书，因为那天的记忆主线不是书，而是人，或者说是一个人和一条狗。

Modern physics confirmed, besides mesotron with charge, there are still litmusless mesotron, whose gravity mass just equals or nearly equals the gravity mass of the mesotron with charge, and the characters of the both mesotron are rather similar.

现代物理学认为除了带电介子外，还存在中性介子，其质量恰好等于或者近似等于带电介子的质量，性质相似。

Of or relating to a metrical system based on the duration of syllables rather than on stress.

音量的：基于音节的音长而不是重音的韵律系统的，或与之有关的。

For a big chunk of credit-card losses; the number of filings (and thus charge-off rates) would be rising again, whether

年美国个人破产法的一个改动使得破产登记急速下降，而后引起了信用卡大规模的亏损。

Eph. 4:23 And that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind

弗四23 而在你们心思的灵里得以更新