In America, the period of huge productivity gains in transportation may be almost over, but in most countries the process still has far to go.
在美国,交通运输业生产率大幅提高的时期可能即将结束,但在大多数国家,这一阶段仍有很长的路要走。
But in most countries its effect was mercifully mild.
不过在大部分国家,它却手下留情,效果温和。
Exports to Asia have been strong, especially from Germany, but in most countries nervous consumers remain reluctant to spend.
对亚洲的出口,尤其是源于德国的出口一直强劲,但是在大多数国家里,紧张的消费者依然不愿消费。
But in most countries, the survey found a strong sense of progress in treating and preventing H.I.V.Yet finding new drugs and other treatments for public health problems is one thing.
但在多数国家,调查发现在治疗和预防HIV方面都有所进展。然而,发现新药以及针对公众卫生健康问题的其他治疗方法是一件事。
In most countries in Europe, people expect a lot of eye contact when you talk to them, but in many Asian countries, a lot of eye contact seems unfriendly.
在大多数欧洲国家,当你和人们说话的时候,他们希望有很多眼神交流,但是在很多亚洲国家,很多的眼神交流看起来很不友好。
Food and aid poured in from most developed countries into the continent, but thanks to the absence of efficient distribution system, the hungry remained empty-stomach.
粮食和援助从大多数发达国家涌入这片大陆,但由于缺乏高效的分配系统,饥饿的人们仍然饥肠辘辘。
"Chinese language and culture were mysterious and not known by people in most countries then, but now, more and more people in the world are learning Chinese, even Chinese history, traditional Chinese medicine and so on, " Sears added.
“当时,中国语言和文化非常神秘,不为大多数国家所知,但如今,世界上越来越多的人开始学习汉语,乃至中国历史、中医等。”西尔斯补充说。
There are wild elephants in Malaysia, Thailand and several other countries but most people will never see them.
在马来西亚、泰国和其他几个国家都有野生大象,但大多数人永远不会看到它们。
Moreover, the biggest impediment to the spread of renewables in most countries is not an antiquated grid, but the lack of a price on carbon.
进一步来讲,在大多数国家这种可再生能源普及的最大障碍并不是落后的电网系统,而是煤炭的低价。
But the broad trend in most countries is still slightly upwards.
但是这种趋势在大多数国家仍在缓慢推进。
Their concerns start and end with fishermen, who in most rich countries are few in number but well organised as lobbyists.
他们关切的始终是渔民,在一些最富的国家,渔民在数量上很少,但是被完全组织成了游说者。
AUSTRALIA may lie towards the bottom of the map, but its economy has been top of most rankings of developed countries in recent years.
澳大利亚也许坐落于接近世界地图的最下边,但是近年来她的经济已经跻身于发达国家的前列。
GDP picked up in most countries through 2010 but there were marked differences in performance.
虽然多数国家的GDP在2010全年都有所抬升,但在表现上却有显著的差异。
But most other advanced countries do have a VAT, which is in effect a national sales tax.
但是大多数其它发达国家采用增值税,它实际是相当于一种全国性的营业税。
The 1968 pandemic began relatively mild, with sporadic cases prior to the first wave, and remained mild in its second wave in most, but not all, countries.
1968年大流感最初较轻微,在第一波之前出现了零星病例,在多数国家(而并非所有国家)暴发第二波疫情期间仍较温和。
Nutrition labels are not only inconsistent but often not in English, the common language spoken in most Pacific island countries.
营养标签不仅标准不一致,往往还不使用英文——大多数太平洋岛屿国家的通用语言。
But Banks in countries with lower savings rates and shakier public finances, most obviously Spain and Britain, still have to find buyers for their debt.
但是身处那些低储蓄率或是公共财政不稳定国家的银行(最明显的是西班牙和英国)仍然不得不为他们的债券寻找买家。
"The migrant worker phenomenon has led to separation of families in other countries, most notably the Philippines, but that's on a much smaller scale, and mostly cross-border," he says.
“流动打工者造成家庭成员分离的现象在其它国家也有,其中首推菲律宾,但他们的范围较小,而且大多都是跨国打工,”他说。
But within most countries inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient, has increased in recent decades (see chart 2).
但是根据基尼系数来衡量,大多数国家的贫富差距在最近几十年内都有所增加(如图2)。
Full-time workers in most countries all received paid vacation days, but no one forces you to use that time.
大多数国家的全职工作者都有带薪假期,不过,没人强迫你一定要休假。
But most are in poor countries and many, if not most, of their inhabitants live in slums.
但这些城市多数是在贫穷国家,并且即便不是大部分,仍有数量众多的城市居民生活在极度的贫困之中。
Rich-world budgets remained deeply in deficit but at least those gaps generally shrank, most of all in countries, like Greece, undergoing austerity (chart 6).
富裕国家的财政预算仍然深陷“赤字”泥沼但至少其程度大多得以减轻,大部分此类国家(像希腊)正施行紧缩政策(图表6)。
"In 1970, five per cent of pregnant women were over 35, but in most European countries the figure is now 20 to 25 per cent," he says.
他说,“1970年,5%的怀孕妇女超过35岁,但是在大多数欧洲国家里,现在这个数字是20 - 25%。”
States are required for U.S. addresses but do not exist (and have no equivalent) in most other countries.
对于美国国内的地址需要 state,但是多数其他国家没有州(或者类似的划分)。
This had come to pass in Japan in the late 1990s and again in the early 2000s, but had not occurred in most Western countries since the late 1950s.
这种情况上世纪90年代末发生在日本,21世纪初再次发生,但从20世纪50年代末以来在大多西方国家并没发生这种情况。
But Japan is already the most indebted in all developed countries with every national saddled with average 5.2 million yen in debt.
但日本已经是发达世界中负债最重的国家,平均每位国民背负着520万日元的总债务。
The ascent of Barack Obama has boosted America’s image in most countries, but only modestly in places like Poland and Romania.
奥巴马(Barack Obama)上台后,美在许多国家形象获得提升,但在波兰和罗马尼亚等国仅有微小改善。
The ascent of Barack Obama has boosted America’s image in most countries, but only modestly in places like Poland and Romania.
奥巴马(Barack Obama)上台后,美在许多国家形象获得提升,但在波兰和罗马尼亚等国仅有微小改善。
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