在任何一年中，大约有十几颗已知的彗星在其轨道中接近太阳。当然，一般人看不到所有的彗星。
In any given year, about a dozen known comets come close to the sun in their orbits, the average person can't see them all, of course.
接近市中心时，我们看到一尊大约10米高的石像。
Approaching the city centre, we saw a stone statue of about 10 metres in height.
赫拉斯盆地是古老火星海洋位置的另一个候选地点，据测量，其跨度大约为3000公里，并且其底部位于盆地边缘下方接近9公里的位置。
The Hellas Basin, which measures some 3,000 kilometers across and has a floor that lies nearly 9 kilometers below the basin's rim, is another candidate for an ancient Martian sea.
在拍摄这张照片时，国际空间站正位于爱琴海上的希腊科斯岛(接近于土耳其的西南海岸)，时间大约是当地午夜。
The ISS was located over the Greek island of Kos in the Aegean Sea (near the southwestern coastline of Turkey) when the image was taken at approximately midnight local time.
稻米价格暴涨到接近历史最高水平—全球价格大约上涨了75%。
Rice prices have skyrocketed to near historic levels - rising about 75 percent globally.
这意味着如果行大小超过(或者接近)4k时，一页只适合一行，这样该页大约有4 k的空间就浪费了。
This means that if the row size is over (about) 4k, only one row will fit on a page and (about) 4k of space is wasted on the page.
仍然是大约5%，这里的相关性接近零。
Still about 5 per cent: the correlation there is close to zero.
据统计，在日本东北部的地震和海啸中确认死亡的人数已经上升到接近8,500，大约13,000人失踪。
The number of people confirmed dead in the earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan now stands at nearly 8,500. Almost 13,000 are missing.
市场似乎将这种风险视为接近于零：法国、德国、英国和美国的指数挂钩债券利率大约为1%。
Markets seem to view that as close to zero: interest rates on index-linked bonds in the France, Germany, the UK and US are about 1 per cent.
这种情况对飞行员来说很糟，因为螺旋桨的尖部接近声速(在海拔较低的温度下大约1200kph)，冲击波造成强烈震动。
And to make matters worse for the pilot, as the tips of the rotor blades approach the speed of sound (around 1,200kph at lower altitude temperatures), shock waves produce huge vibrations.
行星厄里斯是真的，但它是一个和冥王星类似的矮行星，将继续待在太阳系外围；它最接近地球的位置有大约40亿英里。
Eris is real, but it is a dwarf planet similar to Pluto that will remain in the outer solar system; the closest it can come to Earth is about 4 billion miles.
但是我们预计，这种规模的食品运作成本将接近大约一亿两千万美元。
But, we are anticipating that the cost of a food operation of this size is going to be closer to about $120 million.
大约有12亿人，即世界人口的近五分之一，生活在物理性缺水地区，另有5亿人正在接近这一境况。
Around 1.2 billion people, or almost one-fifth of the world's population, live in areas of physical water scarcity, and 500 million people are approaching this situation.
在美国，每年医院的感染人数估计接近200万，其中大约10万例感染者死亡。
In the United States alone, the number of infections in hospitals is estimated at close to two million each year. About one hundred thousand patients die.
心脏病是英国目前最大的杀手，每年有大约27万人忍受着心脏病发作的痛苦，有接近1/3的人在他们到达医院前死亡。
Heart disease is Britain's biggest killer with around 270, 000 people suffering a heart attack every year and nearly one in three die before they even reach hospital.
仅潮热就能引起接近更年期的妇女每夜短时惊起一百次——大约比没有潮热的妇女多三倍。
Hot flushes alone cause women approaching menopause to briefly rouse 100 times a night-around three times more than a woman who is not.
因此如果每年的事故发生概率实际上更接近1/10,000而非1/1,000,000，预期贴现成本会大约在2亿美元，这是一个更合理的数目。
So if the annual probability were really more like 1/10, 000 rather than 1/1, 000, 000, the expected discounted cost would be about $200 million, a more considerable sum.
这段路大约开行3个小时，算是比较顺畅和轻松，而且，离开“长三角”的城市和工业区越远、越接近莫干山，道路两边也就越有看头。
It is a relatively easy and relaxing three-hour drive, and the trip grows more interesting as you approach Moganshan and get away from the urban and industrial sprawl of the Yangtze River delta.
根据他的分析数字，苹果在第二季度卖出了大约320万台iPad，接近苹果自己的预期值。
According to his Numbers, the company may have sold about 3.2 million iPads during the quarter, roughly in line with Apple's own estimates.
中国是建筑业大国，每年大约20亿平方米的建筑总量，接近全球年建筑总量的一半。
China is a building giant in the sense that 2 billion square meters of floor space, nearly half of the world's total, is being built here annually.
大约250万房屋处在收房过程中，1100万(接近所有抵押贷款房屋的25%)房屋价值是“缩水”的：借款者欠款金额大于房屋的实际价值。
Around 2.5m homes are in the process of repossession, and 11m (or nearly 25% of all homes with mortgages) are "underwater" : borrowers owe more on their mortgage than their houses are worth.
大约有3亿人(接近人口的5%)患有哮喘。
这种结构的雪花大约在华氏28度下形成，而柱状和针状的在接近23度下出现。
Shapes like these form around 28 degrees Fahrenheit, while columns and slender needles appear near 23 degrees.
他们发现，老鼠以27赫兹抖动，猫大约是6赫兹，而熊以4赫兹抖动。 他们断定，“抖动频率随动物尺寸变大逐渐接近4赫兹。”
They found that a mouse shakes at 27 Hz, a cat at about 6 Hz while a bear shakes at 4Hz. "Shake frequencies asymptotically approach 4Hz as animals grow in size," they conclude.
名为班迪特的机器人体型大约跟布莱恩一般大小，正试图慢慢滚动接近布莱恩。
The machine, Bandit, is roughly Brian's size, and it has been trying to engage him by slowly rolling toward him.
非洲的手机平均普及率大约为总人口的三分之一，北非则接近三分之二。
In Africa, average penetration stands at more than a third of the population, and in north Africa it is almost two-thirds.
非洲的手机平均普及率大约为总人口的三分之一，北非则接近三分之二。
In Africa, average penetration stands at more than a third of the population, and in north Africa it is almost two-thirds.
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