| 1. | The motion was lost by a majority of two .
动议以两票之差被否决了。 |
| 2. | The candidate lost the election by a nose .
那候选人以微弱之差竞选失败。 |
| 3. | The boat won by three lengths .
这只艇以三艇长之差得胜。 |
| 4. | The mare was beaten for a place by a short head ..
那匹母马以不到一头之差屈居第二名。 |
| 5. | It was a near thing between success and failure .
这是一场以毫厘之差而决定成败的战斗。 |
| 6. | He was beaten by one vote .
他以一票之差落选。 |
| 7. | Only differences in enthalpy are of practical engineering interest .
在实际工程上有意义的只是热含量之差。 |
| 8. | A grain in the balance may determine which individuals shall live and which shall die .
天平上毫厘之差，可以决定哪些个体将生存，哪些将死亡。 |
| 9. | The remnant n(t)is the difference between the actual pilot output and the linear approximation to it .
剩余值n（t）是驾驶员的真实输出和它的线性近似之差。 |
| 10. | One trason we know so little about the newspaper is that as it exists today it is a very recent manifestation .
我们对报纸了解得如此之差，原因之一是当今的报纸本来就是近代的事物。 |
