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It foresaw little change this year, with operating profits of $13.9bn, but forecast a big jump to profits of $19.9bn in 2008, supported by strengthening economic growth in the US and worldwide.
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该协会预计，今年这一数字将不会出现大的变化，可能为139亿美元，但它预测，受美国和全球其它国家经济增长持续走强的支撑，2008年该项利润将大幅增长至199亿美元。 |
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It forms a non-virtuous circle.
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形成一种非良性循环。 |
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It forms in little clumps or balls.
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它呈微小的块状或圆球状。 |
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It formulates broad supervisory standards and guidelines and recommends statements of best practice in the expectation that individual authorities will take steps to implement them through detailed arrangements.
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它规范了广泛的监督标准、指导原则和最佳实践建议，此后独立的权威机构就可以按照具体步骤安排实施。 |
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It fosters patience and responsibility tied to altruistic motivations.
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它促进耐心跟责任感牵于无私的动机上。 |
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It found a small but statistically significant increase in gastrointestinal cancer deaths associated with supplements containing beta carotene and vitamins A, C and E.
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发现了一个小但是具有统计意义的胃肠癌症死亡数增长与含有β-胡萝卜素、维生素A、C和E的制剂有关。 |
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It found that 48,000 deaths every year are caused bymalignantmelanomas, and 12,000 by other kinds of skin cancer. About90percent of such cancers are caused by ultraviolet light fromthesun.
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世界卫生组织指出，每年全球有4.8万人因患恶性黑素瘤而丧生，另有1.2万人因患其他类型的皮肤癌而失去生命。而90％的这种癌症是由于长时间暴露在太阳紫外线下造成的。 |
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It found that 83% of 525 chickens it tested were infected with either campylobacter or salmonella bacteria or both.
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一项检测发现525只鸡中的83%被弯曲杆菌或沙门菌感染，或者借有。 |
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It found that academic pressures were cutting into leisure time, with 85% of parents saying they arranged extra-curricular educational activities for their children.
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它发现由于有85％的父母表示他们会为孩子安排额外的课程学习活动，致使学业压力侵犯了孩子的休息时间。 |
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It found that individualization has made sharper contrast between the strong and the weak, and the weak become helpless even than before.
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发现个人化社会使得强势者有更好的发展，而弱势者却更无助。 |
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It found that less than half of the schools were implementing their nutrition-education guidelines and enforcing vending-machine rules.
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该协会发现，不到一半的学校落实了它们制定的营养教育指导方针、执行了与自动售货机相关的规定。 |
