将近200年之后,在环游世界时,人们已经可以乘坐潜艇在水下一次呆上几个星期,潜艇的能量也几乎没有限制,其上还有能摧毁数座大型城市的武器。
Nearly 200 years later, men could remain underwater for weeks at a time while crossing the globe on a submarine with a nearly limitless supply of power and the means to destroy several large cities.
一种名字几乎已经湮没无闻的被忽视疾病,在40多年前借助一项全球控制规划将近根除之后,如今又重新出现。
A neglected disease with a nearly forgotten name is making a comeback following a global control programme that almost eradicated it more than 40 years ago.
并且,在本书将近400页得内容中几乎没有一个原创的修辞。
But there's barely an original turn of phrase in the book's nearly 400 pages.
2007年1月25日|日内瓦-一种名字几乎已经湮没无闻的被忽视疾病,在40多年前借助一项全球控制规划将近根除之后,如今又重新出现。
January 2007 | Geneva - a neglected disease with a nearly forgotten name is making a comeback following a global control programme that almost eradicated it more than 40 years ago.
苏丹国内有将近500万人流离失所,高于任何其他国家,不过据估计哥伦比亚idps人数几乎与苏丹一样多。
Almost 5m people are displaced in Sudan, more than any other country, although the number of IDPs in Colombia is estimated to be nearly as high.
该公园每年都会发生火灾;1988年的大森林火灾几乎烧掉了黄石公园将近三分之一的面积。
Forest fires occur in the park each year; in the large forest fires of 1988, nearly one third of the park burnt.
我已在TED演奏了将近十年,可是我几乎很少演奏自己的新歌。主要原因是,根本就没有。
I've been playing TED for nearly a decade and I've very rarely played any new songs of my own.
在所有恋物癖者中,将近有一半人,把注意力集中在女人的脚上,在对与身体有关物体的恋物癖者里,几乎有三分之二的人与女人的鞋子和袜子有着联系。
Nearly half of all such fetishes focus on feet, and almost two-thirds of fetishes for objects associated with the body are for shoes and socks.
成千上万的人们住在室外;几乎没有房屋保存完好,而该地将近100,000人居住的泥木结构房屋尤其不堪一击。
Thousands of people are living outdoors; few buildings escaped damage, and the wood-and-mud structures that housed many of the city's nearly 100, 000 residents were particularly vulnerable.
1988年的大森林火灾几乎烧掉了黄石公园将近三分之一的面积。
In the large forest fires of 1988, nearly one third of the park burnt.
当时有将近2000日本飞行员那样死去,几乎摧毁了美国舰队,要是他们有一万人,日本就会赢得战争,所以他们是很英勇的。
They had 2000 who got killed that way and they nearly destroyed the American fleet. If they had had 10,000, Japanese would have won the war. So they were heroic.
这家国有巨型企业生产的电能占全国将近十分之一,几乎全部通过燃煤获得。
The state-owned giant produces about 10% of China's electricity, nearly all from coal.
Mintel公司的调查发现,有将近一半(41%)的受访者表示会比去年圣诞节花费少,这一数字几乎是2007年的二倍,当时只有22%的人作此表示。
Mintel's research found that nearly half of people (41 per cent) said they will be spending less this year — almost double the 22 per cent who said that last year.
二月四日,巴西东北部八州将近五千万人口几乎整夜没电之后,巴西能源部长发表了上述谈话。
Brazil's energy minister was speaking on February 4th after nearly 50m people across eight states in the country's North-East had spent most of the night without power.
全世界最大的手机生产商诺基亚去年手机销量达到将近5亿部,几乎每五部手机中就有两部是它们生产的。
Nokia, the world’s biggest handset-maker, sells nearly half a billion mobile phones a year, roughly two in every five.
今天两家公司依旧都在为共有的、有创意的客户服务:将近一半的CreativeSuite用户使用Mac电脑-但除此之外,我们几乎没有共同利益。
Today the two companies still work together to serve their joint creative customers – Mac users buy around half of Adobe’s Creative Suite products – but beyond that there are few joint interests.
换句话说,互联网排放了将近3亿吨的二氧化碳——几乎与土耳其或波兰一年当中燃烧煤、石油和天然气产生的二氧化碳总量相当,或者和英国燃烧化石燃料产生的二氧化碳总量的一半相当。
Put another way, the internet releases around 300m tonnes of CO2 – as much as all the coal, oil and gas burned in Turkey or Poland in one year, or more than half of those burned in the UK.
在我们的民意测验中,几乎四分之一的“保险额不足”者说目前持有延期未付的医疗帐单,将近一半人使用信用卡以应付医疗开支。
In our poll, nearly a quarter of the underinsured say they currently have overdue medical bills, and close to half have used credit CARDS to meet their health costs.
总体而言,将近三分之一的人都坦言在结婚前对另一半的经济情况几乎一无所知。
Overall, nearly a third of people admitted to being relatively clueless about their husband's or wife's finances before tying the knot.
总体而言,将近三分之一的人都坦言在结婚前对另一半的经济情况几乎一无所知。
Overall, nearly a third of people admitted to being relatively clueless about their husband's or wife's finances before tying the knot.
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