The demonstrators fled when they saw the authorities' superiornumbers.
示威者们看到官方占优势的人数时就逃跑了。
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Despite his superiorNumbers and firepower on land, sea and in the air, the colonel seems mainly to be holding back for now.
尽管Qaddafi上校在陆海空军的人数和火力上占尽优势,但他现在似乎有些退缩。
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She wanted to test the theory that, since fights between lions are very costly, when lions heard large Numbers of intruders' roars they would withdraw unless they were in superiorNumbers.