2月4日，美国底特律活塞篮球队，5个赛季以来首次未能售完主场门票。
On February 4th the Detroit Pistons, an American basketball team, failed to sell out a home game for the first time in five seasons.
整整一年前，一名被这一组织招募的尼日利亚男子试图炸毁一架飞往美国底特律的飞机，但是这一阴谋没有成功。
It comes exactly one year after a failed attempt by a Nigerian man, recruited by the group, to blow up an airliner bound for the city of Detroit in the United States.
什叶派宣称，上个月发生在美国底特律市的针对两个什叶派社区中心以及一些什叶派信徒所有的生意活动的故意袭击是宗派行为。
Shias say that last month's attacks by vandals in the American city of Detroit on two Shia community centres and some Shia-owned businesses were sectarian.
最近两枚针对美国的炸弹袭击- - -10月份两架美国货运飞机和2009年12月份的飞往的底特律的飞机——都是在也门策划的。
Two recent bomb plots against US targets - two American cargo planes in October and a Detroit-bound airliner in December 2009 - originated in Yemen.
在类似底特律西北部的Brightmoor，或者位于东北部的奥斯本地区，你可以看到在美国绝无仅有的场景——损毁的、破败的、被遗弃的房屋。
In areas like Brightmoor in the north-west, or Osborn in the North-East, you can see scenes of vandalism, decay and abandonment unparalleled in America.
菲亚特（现任总裁是JohnElkann，此人同时还是《经济学人》杂志母公司的董事）尚未决定将合并后的集团总部落户在意大利的都灵还是美国的底特律。
Fiat (whose chairman, John Elkann, is a director of The Economist’s parent company) has not decided whether the combined group’s headquarters will be in Turin or Detroit.
底特律车系在美国市场份额上升了0.2%，从而达到44%的市场占有率[韩国的现代(Hyundai)和起亚(Kia)占据了其余的市场份额]。
Detroit picked up two-tenths of a percent, expanding to 44% (Hyundai and Kia gobbled up the rest).
一名年轻的尼日利亚人之前在也门就开始了冒险之旅，圣诞节那天，他企图炸毁底特律一架美国飞机，这使得西方更加左右为难。
The fact that the young Nigerian who tried to blow up an American aircraft over Detroit on Christmas Day had started his venture in Yemen sharpens the West’s dilemma.
至少在美国的部分地区，比如底特律和费城，很多房子的售价已经低于了其建造成本。
In parts of America at least, such as Detroit and Philadelphia, many houses have become less expensive to buy than they were to build.
同时，在底特律继续难以同日本对手竞争时，美国消费者在汽车上有了很多新的、负担得起的选择。
Meanwhile, American consumers had many new, affordable choices in cars - while Detroit continued to have trouble competing with its Japanese rivals.
在美国，丰田有可能面临来自底特律汽车三巨头中至少两者更长期的竞争，而现代和大众开始在丰田之后紧追不舍。
In America, Toyota is likely to face much more consistent competition from at least two of Detroit's Big Three, while both Hyundai and VW are starting to snap at its heels.
这块巨型蛋糕于本周一在美国密歇根州的底特律市公布于众，它的“腰围”惊人，达到11英尺，比之前的记录保持者大八倍之多。
Unveiled on Monday, in Detroit, Michigan, us, the enormous cake - with a whopping circumference of 11ft - was over eight times bigger than the previous record holder.
如图所示，我们已经处于移民者(丰田，本田，尼桑，等等)的美国产品超越底特律三巨头本土成品的临界点上。
As this chart shows, we're nearly at the point where transplant (Toyota, Honda, Nissan, etc.) American production is surpassing the domestic production of the Detroit Three.
克林顿参议员在访问底特律市时说，美国不可能赢得伊拉克内战。在伊拉克，军事手段不能解决问题。
During a visit to Detroit, Senator Clinton said the United States cannot win an Iraqi civil war and that there was no military solution in Iraq.
正如底特律的繁荣取决于美国汽车业的兴衰，拉斯维加斯则依靠赌业作为这座城市的命脉。
Just as Detroit depends on the health of the motor industry, Las Vegas relies on gaming for its lifeblood.
在1955年，底特律的几大美国汽车制造商占有94.5%的美国市场份额。
In 1955, the big Detroit automakers had 94.5% of the American market share.
这周在底特律的北美国际汽车展会上，人们和制造商们主要聚焦在揭幕未来汽车上。
They were the main focus at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit this week as the car companies unveiled future vehicles.
尽管举办它是城市的悲哀，但底特律一年一度的汽车展仍是美国汽车工业的领头羊。
For ALL the woes of the city that hosts it, Detroit's annual motor show is still a bellwether for America's car industry.
面对美国外资企业的竞争以及底特律的主要竞争对手，克莱斯勒和福特，通用被迫提供给其员工类似的金饭碗，不过其任何的低效率都被其庞大的规模所遮掩了。
With hardly any foreign competition in America and its main Detroit rivals, Chrysler and Ford, forced to offer their workers similarly gold-plated benefits, GM's sheer scale masked any inefficiencies.
这周在底特律举办的汽车展是对美国汽车行业复兴的一次欢庆。
DETROIT - the auto show here this week is shaping up to be a celebration of the American car industry's resurgence.
然而就在十年前，通用、福特和克莱斯勒简直就是印钞机，它们大量生产利润很高的轻型卡车和SUV，美国人很喜欢这些车，而且这些车只有底特律能够生产。
Yet only a decade earlier, GM, Ford and Chrysler were minting money, churning out the highly profitable pickups and SUVs that Americans loved and only Detroit knew how to make.
星期五，美国职业棒球大联盟对克克来夫地的美国领头职业棒球队的主场揭幕战开始时，底特律老虎队球迷戴里●克弗朗西斯头上戴着一个老虎玩具。
Detroit Tigers fan Rick Francis wears a tiger toy on his head before the start of their MLB home opener against the Cleveland Indians in Detroit, Mich., on Friday.
他的这番话描述了整个美国失业状况而不仅仅是底特律就业机会的锐减。目前，美国失业率仍然徘徊在9%的高位。
He's not talking about a decimated Detroit, but the current overall U.S. unemployment rate, which hovers over 9%.
虽然还没有明显迹象表明剑桥郡和马萨诸塞州会变成又一个底特律，但美国的象牙塔里仍存在严重的问题。
Cambridge, Massachusetts, shows no outward sign of becoming Detroit. Yet there are serious questions about America's ivory towers.
美国现代汽车和起亚汽车上月销量同比分别增长了40%和57%，底特律的三家大型汽车制造商市场份额环比增长3.2%。
The American sales of Hyundai and Kia last month were up by 40% and 57%, respectively, from a year earlier.
专家怀疑Abdulmutallab的预定目标非锁定了底特律，而是在美国任何一个人口稠密的城市引起爆炸。
Experts doubted that Abdulmutallab's intended target was Detroit, but rather causing an explosion over any heavily populated U.S. city.
专家怀疑Abdulmutallab的预定目标非锁定了底特律，而是在美国任何一个人口稠密的城市引起爆炸。
Experts doubted that Abdulmutallab's intended target was Detroit, but rather causing an explosion over any heavily populated U.S. city.
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