Coming from the world's fourth largest wheat producer, this report contributed to a 25-percent spike in world wheat prices in July.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

We eat different kinds of things and many people think that that's what has contributed to much more heart disease.

许多人认为,我们吃许多不同的食物,这是导致更多人患心脏病的原因

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After World War II, there were two things that, I think, contributed to the huge housing boom at that time.

第二次世界大战后,我认为,那时房地产的巨大繁荣主要归结于两件事

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In France,Mr.Sarkozy says focusing too much on gross domestic product as the main measure of prosperity contributed to the financial crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

These were the qualities that had guided the Greeks for centuries and contributed to their rise to power.

这些特质几个世纪以来,领导着希腊人,并促使他们成为强权。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"In these past 60 years, NATO has contributed to an unprecedented period of peace, freedom and prosperity for all its citizens.

VOA: standard.2009.04.04

If you have profit sharing in a firm or profit sharing in homework assignment, or any joint projects, you have to worry about too little effort being contributed because there's an externality.

如果你是一个公司的股东,或者和别人一起做作业及其他合作项目,你们需要注意到因为外部性,实际上每个人都付出了较少的努力

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"The Tuskegee airmen, because of their achievements, contributed to our getting an integrated Air Force, and therefore opened the door to the opportunities.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

You've got to make sure that if you explain to others how to do this problem, then somebody else contributes to something else, but you know what everybody contributed in the end.

你得能保证,如果你和别人解释了题目的解法,然后另一个人对别的题目又有独到见解,最后你知道每个人都没有浑水摸鱼

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Many observers say those policies have contributed to creating an impoverished, undereducated and isolated population.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

Authorities here have acknowledged that deforestation and unregulated development were responsible for weakening the soil and contributed to the mudslides from Messina's surrounding hills and cliffs.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

public relations and business development firm last year. He says finding a job out of college was tough and contributed to his decision to start his own business.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

One of the men who contributed to Phil Jackson reaching his milestone former Chicago Bulls star Michael Jordan was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

News of the widening trade gap, along with several other gloomy economic reports, contributed to a 2.5 - percent drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Wednesday.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

Andrew Cornelio, director of sales and marketing at the Dusit Thani Hotel, said the travel advisories from more than 30 countries also contributed to the dip in tourism.

VOA: standard.2010.03.27

(VOICE) Scott Smith is Local historian, "how a pest that really caused so much economic hardship, oddly contributed to great changes in agriculture and to the prosperity of this region."

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

U.S.officials say,in addition to the refueling operation, Japan has contributed $2 billion worth of aid to Afghanistan during the last eight years.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

Other countries have contributed about 39,000 soldiers, although many are not allowed to engage in combat or serve in violent areas of the country.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

At the NATO summit he attended on the French-German border, Mr.Obama said allies contributed important resources to support the new U.S.strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.04.11

Yet,up to this day,(outside powers) have not contributed significantly to the establishment of (stability) and security, as well as economic and political development of the region."

VOA: standard.2009.05.24

Last year, the United States contributed almost $270 million to the organization.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17