These diseases are still around, but  the progress of science and technology has waned their impact to a considerable degree.

这些疾病仍然存在，但科学技术的进步已经在相当程度上减弱了它们的影响。

In France, the great easily submit to a considerable degree of inequality in a tax which, so far as it affects them, is not a very heavy one; but could not brook the arbitrary assessment of an intendant.

在法国，大人物很容易接受一种税收的相当程度的不平等，就其影响而言，这种税收并不是很重；但不能容忍一名主管的武断评估。