施韦策表示,上世纪90年代初,西尔斯对其汽车维修人员实施销售配额时,情况就是如此。
Such was the case, Schweitzer says, in the early 1990s when Sears imposed a sales quota on its auto repair staff.
在上世纪30年代,日本扩张政策的一个动机就是认识到需要确保自己的原材料供应。
One motivation for Japan's expansionary policy in the 1930s was the perceived need to secure raw materials.
拜德表示,上世纪80年代、90年代金融管制还没放松的时候,银行就是这样做的。他认为重回旧模式将推动针对新兴企业的贷款。
Mr Bhidé says that is how banks worked before deregulation in the 1980s and 1990s, and thinks a return to that old model would boost credit to young businesses.
南赤道带在1973年和上世纪九十年代早期都消失过,如果说这次消失有什么不同之处的话,就是它发生得比预计晚了一点(因为,推测出的消失周期约为15年)。
The belt took leaves of absence in both the early 1990s and in 1973, so its disappearance now, if anything, is a bit overdue (it seems to be on a roughly 15-year cycle).
起初机器水平还是三年翻一倍;到了上世纪中叶就两年一翻倍(摩尔法则就是从这来的);现在大概一年就翻一倍。
At first the machines' power doubled every three years; then in midcentury the doubling came every two years (the rate that inspired Moore's Law); now it takes only about a year.
就在上世纪九十年代,鳕鱼存量大减的时候,他们就是这么说鳕鱼的。
That's what they said about cod as recently as the 1990s, when stocks were collapsing.
“上世纪50年代,28岁结婚就属于晚婚了,但是现在,28岁结婚还不算太晚,就是说即使到28岁还没有结婚,还有很多未婚的人可以选择,”他说。
"In the 1950s, 28 was really old to get married. Now it's not so old, which means there are more unmarried people for a 28-year-old to choose from," he says.
但到了上世纪70年代,失业和通货膨胀之间的替代关系似乎消失了,它们同时在增长,而这就是所谓的滞胀现象。
But in the 1970s, the trade-off between unemployment and inflation seemed to evaporate; both rose at the same time, a phenomenon known as stagflation.
碎片生碎片,因为每次碰撞产生更多的碎片——这就形成一种叫“凯斯勒综合症”的现象,也就是美国物理学家唐纳德·凯斯勒在上世纪七十年代创立的一种假说。
And junk begets junk, as each collision creates more fragments-a phenomenon known as the Kessler syndrome, after Donald Kessler, an American physicist who postulated it in the 1970s.
到上世纪八十年代末,一个合适的标准烛光出现了,它就是Ia型超新星。
By the late 1980s, a suitable standard candle had been indentified: type Ia supernovae.
我是德国人,从上世纪70年代起,就是德中友好协会的成员。
I am a German and have been a member of the German-Chinese Friendship association since the late Seventies.
官方于是建议美国民众减肥,最后的产物就是国家推荐饮食方案,这个上世纪八十年代和九十年代的罪魁祸首。
Officials responded by advising Americans to shun fat, which became the official villain of the national dietary guidelines during the 1980s and 1990s.
在上世纪90年代末,HBO率先运用精心设计、慢慢展开的方式讲述故事,还以开放式结尾和道德模糊不清的人物为耀,这种风格的集大成者就是《黑道家族》。
In the late 1990s HBO pioneered an intelligent, patient style of storytelling that gloried in loose ends and morally ambiguous characters, a style "the Sopranos" came to epitomise.
最终,研究者们所能提供的最佳方案就是在某一特定群体或同一辈人中(比如说调查对象都是在上世纪八十年代结婚的)找出某种趋势,并判断未来的婚姻走向。
In the end, the best that researchers can do is look for trends within a specific group or cohort (say, all people who married in the 1980s) and project what will happen.
在上世纪90年代,它克服了非洲谷类生产的最大生物障碍,就是能使庄稼枯死的一种叫斯特赖加的寄生杂草。
In the 1990s, he conquered the greatest biological constraint to cereal production in Africa - the deadly weed Striga.
那么,让我们为澳大利亚,这个上世纪表现最好的市场欢呼吧口至于它能否在未来的100年里继续辉煌就是另外一回事了。
So, all hail Australia, the best stock market of the last century. Whether it can stay on top for the next 100 years is another story.
到上世纪70年代初期,我服完兵役之后,很明显的就是一个新的社会正热切地朝我们走来。
By the early '70s when I'd gotten out of the service it was very clear that this new society was coming in earnest.
上世纪五十年代成长起来的人,把《麦田里的守望者》给他们的孩子,无异于向他们展示一本陈旧的相册:那就是我。
When people who grew up in the nineteen-fifties give "the Catcher in the Rye" to their kids, it's like showing them an old photo album: That's me.
不过,现在你得回归到上世纪70年代的老派说唱歌手的运动鞋当中,你知道啦,那就是彪马、阿迪达斯。
But now you're also going back to sort of the old school rapper sneaker, which is, you know, Puma, it's Adidas.
国际资本流动自由化,在上世纪八十年代结束时达到了一个高级的阶段,就是出现这种明显变化的多个可能的促进因素。
Liberalization of international capital flows, which reached an advanced stage at the end of the 1980's, is one likely catalyst for this evident change.
比如,ESPN经常会在亚洲地区播放精彩的乒乓球赛,但在美国本土却从来不播——从上世纪70年代那场著名的乒乓外交逐渐式微以来就是这样了。
For instance, ESPN would regularly broadcast exciting ping-pong matches in Asia, but never in its us home market - certainly not since the famous but fading ping-pong diplomacy era of the 1970's.
这就是上世纪二十年代在英国非常盛行的一种育儿风格。
This was a style of parenting that became hugely popular in England in the 1920s.
这就是上世纪二十年代在英国非常盛行的一种育儿风格。
This was a style of parenting that became hugely popular in England in the 1920s.
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