能源巨头英国石油公司说,已经为海下漏油制造了一个巨大的钢盖。漏油正在污染墨西哥湾,对环境损害构成重大威胁。
Energy giant British Petroleum says it has finished building a massive steel cap for the undersea oil leak that is fouling the Gulf of Mexico and threatening major environmental damage.
已在欧蒙街儿童医院(Great Ormond Street Hospital)有24年临床经验的英国重要儿童内分泌专家理查德·斯坦霍普医生,相信这种情况已经构成巨大挑战。
Dr Richard Stanhope, a leading British paediatric endocrinologist who has spent 24 years at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, believes this presents dramatic challenges.
原因之一可能是英国劳动力的技术构成。
One reason may be the skills make-up of the British workforce.
至少在英国将酒看做构成危害公共卫生和社会稳定的一大因素还是有道理的。
In Britain, at least, it may be right still to see alcohol as a big public-health and social concern.
英国的野生长尾小鹦鹉由于对本土的野生动植物构成威胁并且破坏粮食作物而有可能会被捕杀。
Parakeets living wild in Britain could be culled because they pose a threat to native wildlife and are damaging food crops.
在1998到2005年期间,英国16 - 24岁的年轻人的失业率要低于经合组织国家的平均水平,但是之后该失业率就一直高于平均水平,经合组织是主要由发达国家构成的一个机构。
Between 1998 and 2005, the jobless rate for 16-24-year-olds in Britain was lower than the average for the OECD, a club of mainly rich countries, but since then it has been higher.
贫穷构成了一个碌碌无为、依赖他人、体弱多病、缺乏目标、没有家教和幼年贫困的恶性循环并影响着英国很多地区。批判性的思维基本不起作用。
It perpetuates the vicious cycle of under-achievement, benefit dependency, ill health, lack of aspiration, poor parenting and child poverty that blights so many areas of Britain.
这个星期英国广播公司提出了辩护诉讼,控告托克公司清楚知道它们的化学品是“剧毒的、潜在的致命性和构成对公众健康的严重威胁”。
The BBC filed a fighting defence this week, accusing Trafigura of knowing its chemicals were "highly toxic, potentially lethal and posed a serious risk to public health".
英国陶瓷学会是规模虽小但颇有影响力的协会,《英国陶瓷会刊》是他们的核心刊物。最新一期会刊中,有六篇文章构成了三件瓷器的专题。
Transactions, the bible of the small but influential English Ceramic Circle, has included a series of six papers about the pots in its latest issue.
DrownedInSound (drownedinsound.com)和英国的Pitchfork相似,是个多次获奖的音乐网上杂志,有趣的作者和可靠的评论,构成一个活跃的社区。
Drowned In Sound (drownedinsound.com) is like a British Pitchfork, a multi-award-winning music webzine with sparky writers, reliable reviews and a lively community.
英国气象局(MetOffice)负责发布冰岛火山灰对飞机构成威胁的气象报告;它使用切尔诺贝利核灾难事故后建成的模型预测火山灰的运动。
Britain's Met Office, which is responsible for advisories on risks to aircraft from Icelandic ash, predicts the movement of ash clouds with a model built after the Chernobyl disaster.
5月26日,英国石油公司开始将重型钻探泥浆用泵抽运进防喷装置- - - - -它是由多个气阀构成,位于油井顶部,连接着那根已断裂的立管。
On May 26th BP started to pump heavy drilling mud into the blowout preventer, the set of valves at the top of the well to which that broken pipe is attached.
MailToday(一家英国每日邮报和今日印度周报的合资媒体)编辑巴拉特·布尚称,互联网尚未构成威胁。
“It’s no threat yet, ” says Bharat Bhushan, the editor of the Mail Today, a joint venture between the Daily Mail (another British paper) and India Today, an Indian weekly.
事实上,我们将拒绝向任何人出售,我们有理由怀疑打算发芽,成长的,因为这会构成刑事罪行,英国研究。
In fact we will refuse to sell to anyone whom we have reason to suspect intends to germinate and grow them as this would constitute a criminal offence in the UK.
英国国防部U FO调查局的工作内容是评估英国境内的U FO目击事件是否构成威胁,该机构自成立以来共受理了超过1.2万次不明飞行物目击报告,其中去年收到报告135例。
The MoD department, which has dealt with more than 12,000 reports - including 135 last year - was used to assess threats posed by any Unidentified Flying Objects sightings throughout Britain.
19世纪的前三分之一基本上构成了英国文学的浪漫主义时期。
Roughly the first third of the 19th century makes up English literature's romantic period.
就美国公司的海外利润构成而言,英国、加拿大和日本依次是三个最重要的海外市场。
The three most important overseas markets for US companies' earnings are the UK, Canada and Japan, in that order.
然而,英国现在打算增加预备役的规模,传统上只构成英国陆军的一小部分,而美国的预备役数量就很多了。
However there is a move towards increasing the size of the reserves which traditionally have been only a small part of the British army compared to (for example) the US army.
总的来说,这些人构成当今英国的权势集团。
Broadly speaking, it amounts to the contemporary British establishment.
据英国广播公司报道,马尔代夫内阁定于17日召开水下会议,以呼吁各国重视全球变暖对这个岛国构成的威胁。
The cabinet of Maldives is to hold a meeting underwater scheduled on October 17 to highlight the threat of global warming, BBC reported.
生活只是由一系列下决心的努力所构成- - -托马斯。富勒,英国教士和历史学家。
Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind. — Thomas Fuller, English churchman and historian.
生活只是由一系列下决心的努力所构成- - -托马斯。富勒,英国教士和历史学家。
Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind. — Thomas Fuller, English churchman and historian.
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