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The revenue of the film post-products usually doubles or quadruples the film box-office.

电影后产品开发的收入往往是一部电影票房收入的2至4倍。

His team was asked to design a Mach 2 2.5 aircraft, which was then, and probably still is, a nontrivial task-especially when the objective is to create a "cheap" lightweight aircraft. Consider that the force required to overcome drag quadruples when doubling the speed, and what impact that has on aircraft weight.

要知道当飞行速度由单音速变为双音速时，空气阻力会增加至原来的四倍，考虑到因此所需要的动力，及其对机身重量的影响，满足这样的需求，即使是在今天也绝非易事。

Even if dumping weedkiller on the crops of peasant farmers quadruples the local price of coca leaves, this tends to have little impact on the street price, which is set mainly by the risk of getting cocaine into Europe or the United States.

即使由于使用除草剂，古柯叶产地价格提高四倍，街头毒品价格也不会受到什么影响。毒品价格只是有将其贩卖到欧洲或美国的风险决定的。

Other measures, including banning advertising and raising the minimum smoking age (to 18) and the tax on cigarettes (which now quadruples the price of a packet), have made Britain more hostile to tobacco than any other country in Europe, according to the European Network for Smoking Prevention, a coalition of stubbers-out.

禁止烟草广告、提高吸烟最低年龄限制（提高到了18岁）、以及对烟草税收增加（现在一盒烟的价格已经涨了3倍）这些林林总总的各种措施使英国比欧洲起他国家都更仇视烟草。这一结论来自一个想把烟草连根铲除的联合组织，叫做欧洲烟防网。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。