1·She argued her case with considerable passion.
她相当激动地为自己的主张提出论据。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·This matter has assumed considerable importance.
这件事看来相当重要。
—— 《牛津词典》
3·A number of the monuments are of considerable antiquity.
有些历史遗迹相当古老。
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4·There is considerable imprecision in the terminology used.
所用的术语相当不准确。
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5·The news was greeted with considerable popular acclamation.
这条新闻迎来了相当广泛的喝彩。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
1·The argument seemed to have considerable merit.
这个论点似乎有相当大的价值。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·To be without Pearce would be a considerable blow.
要是缺了皮尔斯，那会是相当大的打击。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·He dived in to save the dog at considerable risk to his own life.
他冒着相当大的生命危险跳到水里去救那只狗。
—— 《牛津词典》
4·Student pranksters have done considerable damage to the school buildings.
恶作剧的学生对学校的建筑造成相当大的损坏。
—— 《牛津词典》
5·The movie takes considerable liberties with the novel that it is based on.
影片对小说原作作了相当大的改动。
—— 《牛津词典》
1·This considerable volume of intercommunity exchange brought a degree of social complexity in its wake.
这种数量可观的相互交易随后给社会造成了一定的复杂性。
2·But Schmidt, a 20-year veteran of the IT industry, wasn't keen on shouldering the considerable costs of creating and maintaining an OS and browser for no obvious return.
但是，在IT行业有20年经验的老兵施米特不喜欢承担数量可观的费用，来创建并维护没有明显回报的操作系统和浏览器。
3·Many people blame bad luck for their failures - especially on ventures where they invested considerable time and effort.
许多人把自己的失败归咎于运气差—尤其是在他们投入了可观的时间和精力进行冒险尝试之后。
4·They can start up, collect considerable amounts of money fromconsumers, go out of business, change their name and emerge as a new entity ina very short period of time.
它们可以把“学校建起来”，从客户那里敛足可观数量的钱之后，短时间内就换一个名字，又以新的实体出现了。
5·Some aboriginal groups now have considerable incomes from mining royalties. And the mining companies, having been intensely hostile to land rights, make great efforts to employ aborigines.
一些土著部落现在有可观的矿区使用费收入，而且一直对土地权心怀叵测的矿业公司努力雇佣土著居民。
1·There is (a) considerable overlap between the two subjects.
两门科目之间有相当多的共通之处。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·Scymanski has applied himself to this task with considerable energy.
赛曼斯基已经花了相当多的精力致力于这项任务。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·There remains considerable doubt over when the road will be completed.
对于道路何时能竣工，人们还有相当多的疑虑。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
4·Lithuania still commands considerable international sympathy for its cause.
立陶宛仍得到相当多对其事业的国际支持。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
5·He knows he has considerable support for his plans to tighten his grip on the machinery of central government.
他知道他那些对中央政府加强控制的计划拥有相当多的支持。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
1·He owns considerable real estate.
他拥有相当可观的房地产。
—— 《新英汉大辞典》
2·He will stand to get a considerable profit through the speculations in lands.
他在地产投机生意上必定会赚相当可观的一笔钱。
3·However, since the second half of 2006, its sales have stagnated. Although its sales absolute figure is still considerable, the benefit is not increased but even declining.
然而，2006年下半年以来，企业的销售业绩开始停滞不前，虽然销量的绝对数字依然相当可观，但效益却不见增长，甚至有所下滑。
4·What is certain is that the environmental impact of information technology as a whole is considerable and ever rising.
但可以确定的是信息技术所带来的环境影响是相当可观的并且呈上升趋势。
5·Even critics of the euro would concede that it has had considerable success, establishing itself in less than a decade as a genuine rival to the dollar as a world currency.
即使欧元的批评者也得承认在不到十年的时间里，以美元为对手把欧元建立为世界流通货币是一件相当可观的成就。
1·The topic of the nature of skill—and the differences between beginners and experts—has been one of considerable discussion in cognitive science and philosophy.
技能的本质——以及初学者和专家之间的差异——一直是认知科学和哲学领域的重要讨论话题之一。
2·This requires considerable application logic including a way to identify the request and the logic to generate and process the message.
这需要重要的应用逻辑，包括一种识别请求的方法以及生成并处理消息的逻辑。
3·I never built my own telescope, but a lot of real astronomers did, and many of the earliest members of the profession made considerable contributions to our understanding of optics.
尽管我从未造出一个我自己的望远镜，但是很多真正的天文学家却做到了，同时很多这个专业的成员为我们理解光学作出了重要的贡献。
4·There began to be considerable social stratification within this people.
而这个民族开始形成一个重要的社会阶层。
5·QGIS handles all three — raster, vector, and database — a state of affairs that took considerable effort for programmers writing GIS data programming libraries.
QGIS处理所有三种数据——栅格数据、矢量数据和数据库，这也是编写GIS数据编程库的程序员的重要努力方向。