And for the past century their pay has stagnated relative to that of their constituents.

所以在过去一个世纪里，相于他们选民说，些政客们增长缓慢。

As opposed to simply transcribing verbatim, re-framing the information into your own words while writing out physically links to better performance on tests.

相于简单逐字逐句抄，如果能够把信息重新组织成自己语言同时写出它们之间联系，就可以在考试中取得更好成绩。

It’s a pretty common trope that a cold or the flu doesn’t really affect women as much as it does men.

社会上有个普遍迷思是，相于男生，流感女生影响比较小。

Compared with other form's writing, it is shorter and takes less time.

相于其他写作，日记是较为简短地叙述简单事情。

The result wasn’t all that interesting, but this photo is.

相于比赛结果说，张照片可是非常有意思。

Characteristics include sustained wind speeds of almost 65 miles per hour, and these winds can blow further from the center of the system than they usually do with the tropical storm.

特点包括持续风速接近每小时65英里，而些风相于通常热带风暴而言，可以从风暴中心吹得更远。

Psychologists have recently focused on the tendency to think about something other than the task one is doing.

心理学家最近注意到一种趋势，即相于正在着手做事情，人们更容易想其他事。

The ocean of quarks in a proton, inside a single atom of a single cell of your body is as small to you, as you are compared to a sphere around 174 light years across, containing about 16 thousand stars.

夸克粒子存在于质子中，质子位于身体单个细胞中单个原子中，说，是十分渺小，就如同相于一个直径约174光年、包含约1.6万颗恒星球体一样渺小。

The really encouraging thing was that participants all said they felt much more confident about using social media to keep in touch with their grandchildren, who prefer this form of communication to phoning or sending emails.

十分振奋人心是，参与者们都感觉使用社交媒体和自己孙子孙女们沟通更加有自信了，毕竟相于电话或者发邮件说，他们孙子孙女更加喜欢种沟通方式。

The Central Pacific doesn't see a lot of hurricanes in contrast to the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Oceans and Hawaii takes up a relatively small part of the sea.

相于大西洋和东太平洋，太平洋中部很少发生飓风，而夏威夷在大海上显得十分渺小。

So while that makes a lot of sense for the Southern Hemisphere it doesn't make much sense to the other half of the globe.

因此，相于北半球人而言，上述只南半球人较为合理。

It's based on Earth's position in relation to the sun and the 21st is when we'll see the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year when astronomical winter begins.

是基于地球相于太阳位置确定，21号是冬至时候，天文学上冬季开始于一年中最短一天。

But, by moving the clocks forward an hour, compared to all other human activity, the sun will seem to both rise and set later.

但是，通过将时间调快一小时，相于人类其它活动而言，日出和日落都会显得晚一点。

Um, no, I don't think Charlie's gay. Just more interested in dragons than women.

不，我觉得查理不是同性恋。相于女人，他只是龙更感兴趣 。

OK, so Sarah Woodin suggests that when money is tight-meaning there is only just enough-making robots in large quantities-or mass-produced-might be a cheaper option than using humans.

好，所以 Sarah Woodin 表示当金紧张——意思是刚刚够用——大量制造机器人——或者说批量生产——可能相于使用人说是一种更廉价选项。

So life appeared on Earth within half a billion years of it being possible, which is short compared to the 10-billion-year lifetime of a planet of Earth type.

因此地球上生命可能在 5 亿年间出现，相于像地球之类百亿年期星体只算是一段短时间。

KFC will give you a lot more food per dollar than an organic salad chain.

肯德基提供食物相于有机沙拉连锁店说，每美元食物含量要多得多。

The position of something is relative to other things.

用 position表示某物位置是相于其它事物而言。

So that is a very big battery for pretty much any phone.

所以相于很多手机说，电量是非常大了。

Mars is small, relative to the Earth. Only about half the size of our planet.

相于地球说，火星体积很小，只有地球一半大。