But they can only marginally reduce, not eliminate the hazards

但这也只是在一定程度上减少了,而不是消除了危险性。

Computer retrieval may be only marginally worthwhile in a university environment, say, whilst fully viable in industry

计算机检索在大学环境中只有一些辅助功效,而在工业中则可以全面展开。

This year's profits were marginally higher than last year's

今年的利润比去年稍微高些。

Sadat's direct contact with us made that role only marginally necessary

萨达特同我们的直接联系,使这个任务不太必要了。

The current demand is strongest in our country, while global demand has only fallen marginally in the past several months. This suggests that the market is still relatively buoyant and seems likely to remain so.

我国当前对电冰箱的需求非常大,近几个月来国际需求有所下降,但幅度不大。这意味着市场仍然比较活跃,而且这一状态会持续下去。

On April 9, Kuwait has marginally beaten qatar in basketball with a score of 97:93 and won this year's championship

在9日进行的球类项目比赛中,科威特篮球队以97:93的微弱优势战胜劲敌卡塔尔队,荣登本届西亚运动会篮球比赛的冠军宝座。

||1:Brazilian courts, unlike their Indian and South African peers, rarely consider suits with broad implications.||2:Instead, they take on individual provision cases.But they hear so many—40,000 claims a year about providing medicines, for example—that their rulings have sweeping implications.||3:Experts have long assumed that such rulings seldom help the poor, because the benefits are restricted to the plaintiffs, who are likely to be well-off.||4:But the authors point out that after a string of losses in court, the government bodies that deliver subsidised medicine changed their behaviour, making the stuff more easily available.||5:By the authors' calculations, 36% of the benefits from medical cases in Brazil go to the poorest 40%—ie, they are marginally regressive.

||1:巴西的法院和印度及南非不同，它很少关心那些有着广泛含义的案件，而是对涉及特定条款的案件更感兴趣。||2:不过，由于巴西法院一年要处理大约4万件类似关于提供药品的涉及特定条款的案件，大量涉及特定条款的案件综合在一起，还是为该国的社会政策提供了广泛的指引。||3:长期以来，专家们都认为这类案件帮不上穷人什么忙，因为利益都属于原告，而原告通常比较富裕。||4:但是研究报告指出，提供补助药品的政府相关机构在遭受了一系列败诉后，会改变自己的行为，为穷人获得补助药品提供更多便利。||5:Daniel Brinks和Varun Gauri估计，巴西的医疗案件判决中36%的利益由最穷的40%人口获得，略微不利于穷人。

||1:What was a surprise was that removing this nicotine did not diminish the oil's effectiveness against bacteria and fungi, and made it only marginally less effective against beetle larvae.||2:The crude oil killed all of the larvae whereas the nicotine-free stuff left a fifth of them alive after two days.||3:Clearly, there are other pesticides at work, and finding what they are is the next task.||4:Meanwhile tobacco has proved itself a more useful substance than even the Victorians realised.||5:Can its rehabilitation be far off.

||1:但意料之外的是，将这种油去除后，对细菌和真菌的影响作用却并没有降低，只是对甲虫幼虫的作用在一定程度上减轻了。||2:布满这种油的环境中，所有的甲虫幼虫都被杀死，散乱分布的情况下，两天后也只有五分之一存活。||3:显然，其它具有杀虫作用的物质在起作用，下一步任务就是找出这些物质。||4:这些发现证明了烟草不止可以用来做香烟，它甚至具有比维多利亚时代的发现更大的作用。||5:如此，烟草的这种"复兴"还会远吗。

||1:INVESTORS in Tesco, Britain's largest supermarket chain, could be forgiven for weeping into their Christmas pud this month.||2:On December 9th the retailer issued its fourth profit warning in five months, cutting its full-year trading forecast by almost a third.||3:Shares plunged (again), topping off a dreadful year for the former darling of the City.||4:Tesco's only solace is that it is only doing marginally worse now than its direct competitors, such as Sainsbury's and Morrison's.

||1:英国最大的连锁超市特易购投资商若在本月圣诞节掩面痛哭，也是情有可原。||2:易购零售商于12月9号发布了5个月以来的第4次盈利警告，其预测的全年交易额减少了近三分之一。||3:该公司股票（再次）猛跌，结束了这个昔日城市宠儿不如意的一年。||4:唯一的慰藉就是它现在只是比直接竞争对手（桑斯博里与莫里森公司）稍微差了点儿。

What was a surprise was that removing this nicotine did not diminish the oil's effectiveness against bacteria and fungi, and made it only marginally less effective against beetle larvae.

但意料之外的是，将这种油去除后，对细菌和真菌的影响作用却并没有降低，只是对甲虫幼虫的作用在一定程度上减轻了。

Investors welcomed the seventh-day Sun, which should win back some of NOW's lost readers, but in general they see newspapers as an "asset-intensive, slow-growth, marginally profitable business", says Todd Juenger of Sanford C. Bernstein, an investment bank.

来自桑福德伯恩斯坦（Sanford C. Bernstein）投资银行的托德.容格（Todd Juenger）说，投资者青睐《星期日太阳报》，这应该有助于集团挽回一些《世界新闻报》流失的读者。但是一般而言，他们认为报业是一个"资产密集型，增长缓慢，盈利极小的行业"。

"We have seen very low volume on the upside and also marginally higher volume on the downside, which is also concerning, " he said.

“我们曾看到股市上涨时成交量非常低，也曾看到下跌时成交量小幅增加，这也令人担心，”他说。

For much of 2008 these markets seemed only marginally affected by the slowdown in the developed West.

2008年的大部分时间，新兴市场只受到西方发达国家经济下滑的些许影响。

The three-month Treasury bill by late trading yielded 0. 03 percent, up marginally from 0. 02 percent late Monday.

3个月期国债的盘后交易的收益率百分之0.03，相比周一的百分之0.02有所上升。

Security and the prospect of higher salaries may make an academic career look marginally more attractive.

安全感和获得更髙薪水的前景可能会使学术生涯看上去稍微多了一份吸引力。

Analysed by currency, Hong Kong dollar denominated loans increased marginally , while foreign currency loans declined moderately in January.

按货币分析，月份港元贷款轻微增加，外币贷款则略为下跌。

It was Serena who was looking marginally the more confident though, hitting four aces in her first three service games.

不过，小威在信心上似乎更胜一筹，在前三个发球局中轰出四记Ace球。

Most papers have cut back on distribution to remote areas or putting copies in the hands of people only marginally interested.

大多数报社削减在偏远地区发行的计划或者把副本业务转让给利润稍高的人手上。

But the bank's analytical breakdown of the figures leaves a marginally less alarming scenario.

但从世行对数据的细化分析来看，事态要略好一些。

But after he made a marginally ambiguous statement about taxes, Mr Norquist jumped on the phone.

但在与基尔的电话通话中，基尔就税收问题说了一番模棱两可的话，诺奎斯特就爆了。

But the chances of the country skidding to an untimely halt are only marginally less remote.

但中国经济不合时宜地踩住刹车的可能性，却只是增加了那么一点点。

One result of bail-outs is that global over-capacity remains a big problem, making many companies marginally profitable at best.

对汽车业纾困的后果之一，是全球产能过剩依然是一个大问题，使得许多公司充其量不过是勉强盈利。

For a happy film, there was no improvement in mood, and the difference between chocolate and water was only marginally significant.

对于一个欢快的电影来说，巧克力对成员的情绪改善没有作用，两组之间的差别近乎显著。

Yet Saab has lost money for years and Volvo has been only marginally profitable.

多年来萨博一直入不敷出，沃尔沃也只是收获微薄的盈利。

The Irish, Finns and Portuguese were only marginally less welcome abroad, with visa-free travel available to 156 countries.

而爱尔兰、芬兰和葡萄牙的国民紧随其后，他们在无签证的情况下，可以到156个国家旅游。

And divorced women were marginally , by 10 percentage points, more likely than married women to have returned to full-time work.

而且，离婚妇女稍稍，大概10%左右，比已婚妇女更愿意回到全职工作中去。

That, says, Mike Hough of Birkbeck College in London, has only marginally increased the public's role in setting police priorities.

而这一“邻里警务”原则，伦敦伯克贝克大学的麦克.霍夫说，只能稍微增加了公众在警察优先考虑事物中的比重而已。

Small endowments with assets of less than $1bn had returns of 8. 3 per cent, marginally under-performing institutions.

而资产在10亿美元以下的小型捐赠基金回报率为8.3%，同那些表现欠佳的机构基金相当。

It is pencilling in (marginally more modest) growth of 7. 6-7. 7 per cent this year and next.

该地区今明两年的经济增速有望达到7.6%至7.7%（较去年略有放缓）。

Firms may also choose to cannibalise their own products by producing marginally improved products.

各公司还可能以生产稍有改进的产品来取代他们自己的原产品。

marginally employed

边际就业

course marginally stable

航向边缘性稳定

marginally directional stable ship

临界航向稳定船

By a small margin;marginally;slightly

微幅

By a small margin;marginally;slightly

微幅

By a small margin;marginally;slightly

小幅

By a small margin;marginally;slightly

小幅

marginally commercial circuit quality

最低商用电路质量