在20世纪50年代末汽车影院最受欢迎的时候，美国大约有4000家汽车影院，但如今，这个数字还不到当时的四分之一。
When drive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late 1950's, some 4,000 existed in the United States, but today there are less than one-quarter that many.
但为何这个分子时钟在过去四分之一世纪中对于法医学家如此有用呢？究其实是因为某人死去时它突然停止，凝滞了死亡瞬间。
But what has made this molecular clock so useful for forensic anthropologists over the past quarter-century is the fact that it stops dead when someone dies.
他们一定是认识到了华盛顿演艺生涯的不寻常之处：在他长达四分之一世纪的职业中，华盛顿是为数不多的像汤姆·汉克斯一样，一直没有出演过动作片系列的当红男影星。
They must have recognized an anomaly inWashington's quarter-century star career: that, like Tom Hanks but notmany others, he's been a major movie male without anchoring an actionfranchise.
四分之一个世纪过去，这座城市变的更为庞大：它在20世纪90年代在Broadgate东部几英里远的金丝雀码头建立了第二个金融区。
A quarter of a century on, the City is far bigger: it established a second cluster in the early 1990s at Canary Wharf, a few miles east of Broadgate.
20世纪90年代，家庭收入10万美元以上的猎人总数增长了四分之一还多。
The number of hunters with household incomes above $100, 000 increased by more than a quarter in the 1990s.
因此，平均退休时间大约是19世纪20年代(在大萧条之前)一般活到65岁的人工作47年的四分之一。
Therefore, years in retirement amounted on average to about one quarter of the 47 years that men typically worked in the 1920s (before the Great Depression) prior to reaching age 65.
回到20世纪70年代晚期，情况可是另外一幅光景：英国经济规模只有法国的四分之三。
Back in the late 1970s it was the other way round: the British economy was only three-quarters the size of the French one.
此后，这些国家就开始了从未经历过的、长达四分之一世纪的最迅猛发展。
Then began a quarter century of the most rapid growth that these countries had ever experienced.
以往四分之一世纪所承载的隆隆牛市亦因建起了数百万空宅却难觅买家而为人所纪念。
The great bull market of the past quarter century is commemorated by millions of empty houses without anyone to buy them.
或者，会更像20世纪前四分之三个世纪的情况那样，由于大国之间的严重冲突，亚洲地区动荡不安、穷困潦倒？
Or will it be more like the first three-quarters of the 20th century, when Asia was rocked and impoverished by major conflicts among the major powers?
因此需要审慎地问一下：下一个四分之一世纪还会如过去一样的和平么？
It therefore seems prudent to ask: Will the next quarter-century be as peaceful as the last?
过去四分之一世纪是金融业的金色光景。
这个今天占据伊斯帕尼奥拉岛三分之一面积，(与邻居相比)相对贫困和拥挤的国度，却曾经是世界上最富庶的蔗糖殖民地的中心，它在18世纪末为其宗主国法国提供了四分之一的财富。
The poorer, more crowded third of the island of Hispaniola, it was once the heart of the world's richest sugar colony, providing France with a quarter of its wealth in the late 18th century.
尽管这本书仍以17世纪美国诗歌的萌芽开始讲起，但更关注一些近代的诗歌和那些作者尚存的诗歌上，读者读到四分之一的时候就沉醉其中，而这样就把读者带到了20世纪的诗歌世界之中。
The book still begins with American poetry in its 17th-century infancy, but pays much more attention to living and recent poets: a quarter way through, readers are well into the 20th century.
要想将风险限制到四分之一（变暖2摄氏度），那么21世纪上半段CO2的总排放量必须保持在一万吨之下。
To limit the risk to a one-in-four chance [of 2 degree C warming], then total CO2 in the first half of the 21st century has to be kept below [one trillion] metric tons.
例如，在21世纪初，有四分之一的美国人使用万维网。
For example, at the turn of the 21st century, a quarter of the U.S. population used the World Wide Web.
“我有这么一个保持很久、令我振奋而且来之不易的北宁顿学院二年级休学生身份，”他说，“我已经作为一个休学大二学生度过了四分之一世纪。”
“I have this long, uplifting, hard-earned status as a sophomore on leave from Bennington College, ” he said. “I’ve spent a quarter of a century as a sophomore on leave.”
2011年9月14日 –如今世界各地妇女的状况比四分之一世纪前有所改善，但2011年的现实是不平等现象依然存在，而且在某些地方是致命的。
September 14, 2011 – Women around the world are better off today than they were a quarter century ago, but in 2011, inequality is still a reality – and in some cases, deadly.
对于日本的投资者来说，不仅仅是迷失的十年，而是迷失的四分之一世纪；日经225平均指数(Nikkei 225)最近触到26年来的最低点。
For Japanese equity investors, it has not just been a lost decade, it has been a lost quarter-century; the Nikkei 225 average recently touched a 26-year low.
在17世纪的米兰，四分之三的女性贵族都与世隔绝。
In Milan in the 1600s, three-quarters of the female nobility were cloistered.
在过去的四分之一世纪里，这样的前车之鉴就有好几个。
There are several examples of this in just the past quarter of a century.
他用了四分之一世纪积攒起来的家当全都完了。
那一天，在四分之一世纪过去以后，我去植物园去探望他他站在长空底下。
That day a quarter of a century later when i visited him on the plantationhe was standing against the sky .
那一天，在四分之一世纪过去以后，我去植物园去探望他他站在长空底下。
That day a quarter of a century later when i visited him on the plantationhe was standing against the sky .
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