Both of these, industry insiders argue, could have become serious rivals to Facebook.
业内人士认为,这两家公司都可能成为Facebook

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For more than two decades the Global Forecast System (GFS), the leading weather-prediction model produced in the United States, has been notably less accurate than its chief competitor, published by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).
较之二者,全球预报系统所得成功虽微不足道,但美国气象界

大呼叫好。全球预报系统是美国最为先进
天气预报模型,二十多年来,它发布
天气预测准确性显然落后于它

--欧洲中期天气预报中心。
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