to be equivalent to

基本解释

The tools used are said to be equivalent to the earth digging and moving.
而且使用的工具也应该等同于我们现在的挖土机和搬运机。
This is said to be equivalent to about one-tenth of the total used by restaurants.
这相当于餐饮行业总用油量的十分之一。
If one maps a single activity or task in a process to a use case, each use case would only model a single interaction, since a task is assumed to be equivalent to a single interaction.
如果将流程中的单个活动或任务映射为一个用例，则每个用例将仅对单个交互进行建模，因为任务被认为与单个交互等效。

That would be the equivalent to almost 40 percent of the projected demand of the United States.
So, this observation is equivalent to saying that there must be something that is path independent.
这个表述相当于说,一定存在某个物理量是与路径无关的。
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So Selection Sort, while it might be easier perhaps to think through than Bubble Sort, or maybe it's pretty much equivalent, it's just a different approach to the same problem.
因此，仔细想想，选择排序也许比,冒泡排序更简单，或者这两者都差不多，只是对同一问题的不同方法而已。
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This is said to be equivalent to about one-tenth of the total used by restaurants.
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