less benign comparison

Japanese translation: もっと厳しい比較

03:01 Jan 20, 2017
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Bus/Financial - Finance (general) / Stock report
English term or phrase: less benign comparison
Please advise what "less benign comparison" indicates here

"the slowdown is mainly due to a less benign comparison of +2%, with +1.5% two-yr avg growth in the quarter close to the company's +1% avg in each of the last three quarters."


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ashlee2016
Japan
Japanese translation:もっと厳しい比較
Explanation:
Here "benign" means "favorable", "positive", "beneficial" or "harmless". 厳しい is probably too strong in this context but provides the general meaning.
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David Patrick
Ireland
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3もっと厳しい比較
David Patrick
3成長率の低下
Port City


  

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もっと厳しい比較


Explanation:
Here "benign" means "favorable", "positive", "beneficial" or "harmless". 厳しい is probably too strong in this context but provides the general meaning.

David Patrick
Ireland
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Thank you for your help as always!
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Asker: Thank you, it makes sense.

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成長率の低下


Explanation:
上の文だけでは前年同期との比較か、それ以外か分かりませんが、何かと比較して「成長率が低下したため」や「成長率が低かったため」と訳せば良いのではないかと思います。「低下」や「上昇」、「高い」「低い」は何かと比較して言うことですから。


Port City
New Zealand
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Native speaker of: Native in JapaneseJapanese
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Notes to answerer
Asker: 背景の説明のない状態での質問ですみません。おそらく比較対象とする時期の問題で、比較自体がless benign であったため、今回の数値との差が大きいように見える、という意味のようです。いつもありがとうございます。

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