Compared with the rest of the population, older people are also more likely to own their own homes and be less mobile than renters, who can move to new job markets.
与其他人口相比，老年人更有可能拥有自己的房子，他们的流动性也比租房的人小，因为后者可能转移到新的就业市场。
Six months out, more people who had quit abruptly had stuck with it—more than one-fifth of them, compared to about one-seventh in the other group.
六个月后，选择突然戒烟的人中有超过五分之一的人坚持了下来，而另一组只有七分之一。
More than twice my size, she seemed too solid and stout to be real, especially when compared to the skinny body of the boy I had assumed.
她的体形是我两倍有余，看起来那么坚固结实，特别是跟我所假扮的这个清瘦的男孩相比，简直不像真的。
A study coming out in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science found that in most poor countries, higher temperatures are more than 90% likely to have resulted in a fall in economic output, compared to a world without global warming.
发表在《美国国家科学院院刊》的一项研究发现：与不存在全球变暖的世界相比，大多数贫穷国家的经济产量有超过九成的可能性会因温度升高而下降。
Clearly, this condition is of a different magnitude than cancer when compared to the individual types of tumors.
显然，当特定类型的肿瘤相比，这种状况和肿瘤不是一个规模的。
Wind costs more than $2.5 billion per gigawatt to build, compared with $600 million for gas.
风能发电25亿美元每千兆瓦的建造成本，对比汽油只需要6亿。
They were compared to more than 2, 700 people who didn't play any brain games, but spent a similar amount of time surfing the Internet and answering general knowledge questions.
还有一组人员，共2700多人，他们不玩什么益智类游戏，只是用同样的时间上上网，回答回答知识问答而已。 然后我们将这两组人员进行对比。
To make matters worse, the Patent Office is rejecting applications at an unprecedented pace-with fewer than 50% being approved, compared to 70% a decade ago.
事情更糟的是，在专利局驳回申请的速度是前所未有的，相比于十年前的70%，现在低于50%的专利获得批准。
On the other hand, those eating more than once a week of Fried fish or fish sandwiches were 44 percent more likely to suffer ischemic stroke compared those who consumed less than once a month.
从另一方面来说，那些每周吃一次以上的油炸鱼或鱼肉三明治的人比每月吃不到一次油炸鱼或鱼肉三明治的人患缺血性中风的几率要高44%。
Turns out I’m always able to get them cleared less than an hour, compared to the few hours I’d have taken if I attended to them in the day.
结果是我总能不到一个小时就完成这些任务，相比较而言，如果在一天中分散处理这些任务就要花几个小时。
On this view, America and Britain are better compared to Japan than to Greece.
从这个观点来看，美国和英国比较适合与日本比较，而不适合与希腊比较。
Much better, too, to do so in a small group where offers can be compared and ambitions bid up, rather than trying to engage the whole world at once.
先在小范围内实行要比试图立即应用于全世界要好多了。在小范围内，互相间可以比较，也可以增强野心。
Access to electronic media widened across the continent with the number of computers per thousand people rising more than 30 percent in 2003 compared to 2000.
在整个非洲大陆，电子媒介的使用范围有所扩大，2003年每千人计算机拥有量比2000年增加了30%多。
Nearly half of public health professionals were willing to pull the plug on a patient's life support to save others, compared with less than a third of doctors.
有接近一半的专业人士愿意拔掉病人的生命维持插头来拯救其他人，相对于只有三分之一的医生会这样做。
But women are more likely to fret, with almost half admitting that they worry a lot, compared to less than a third of men.
但女性更容易操心，近一半的女性承认她们操心很多事，而男性的这一比例则不到三分之一。
A new study suggests involvement in a positive sports team environment and learning to improve oneself, rather than being compared to others, are important life skills fostered by youth sports.
一项新的研究表明，与其他活动相比，积极加入体育团体并学会如何不断地改善自我是青年体育培养的重要生活技能。
Mortgage approval rates are down by more than 70 percent this year compared to 2007.
英国的房屋贷款批准率今年和2007年相比下降了百分之70以上。
And almost a quarter of the 2006 rich owed their fortunes to the finance sector, compared with less than a tenth back in 1982.
2006年，大约有四分之一的商人的收益来自金融部门，而1982这一数字占不到十分之一。
In May, the number of single-use bags increased slightly from May 2009, with 45% fewer bags used this May than in May 2006, compared to 48% fewer in 2009.
与2009年减少48%相比，5月份相对2006年5月减少45%来看，2009年5月起，一次性塑料袋使用的数量有轻微的增长。
It said women working full-time in the finance firms surveyed earned 55 percent less annual gross salary than men, compared to a pay gap of 28 percent for the economy generally.
该机构称，在受调查的几家金融公司中，全职女员工的年总收入比男员工低55%，而全国的总体平均差距为28%。
A whopping 30% of $1 CEOs were on the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans, compared to an average of less than 5% among CEOs in general.
在只领取1美元年薪的CEO里，高达30%的人都登上了福布斯全美富豪400强排行榜，而在一般上市公司的CEO里，这个比例还不到5%。
For example, trying to guarantee that two values will be compared as Numbers rather than strings.
比如，要保证比较的两个值是数字而不是字符串。
The days of the 9 to 5 job are long over and despite huge advances in technology, our lives seem to be a lot busier compared than that of previous generations.
每天早9晚5的工作时间很长，尽管科技日益发达，但比起我们的上一代，我们的生活似乎要忙碌得多。
DNA was compared to ensure the animals were not tested more than once.
进行DNA比对，以确保动物没有被重复测试。
The number of home vegetable gardens is predicted to jump more than 40 percent this year, compared with two years ago, according to the National Gardening Association.
据全国园艺协会说，与两年前相比，本年家庭菜园数量预计能跳涨40%以上。
Among women, 53 per cent of those who had died, never touched alcohol, compared to just 33 per cent who less than 14 units a week.
在去世的妇女中，53%的人从不碰白酒，而每周喝不到14单位酒的人只占33%。
But in reality, you're actually using more bandwidth than you need when compared to a comparable 64kbps HE-AAC encoded stream.
但在现实中，你事实上正在使用比你本身需要的频宽更多的，例如使用64kbps的HE -AAC格式的流。
But in reality, you're actually using more bandwidth than you need when compared to a comparable 64kbps HE-AAC encoded stream.
但在现实中，你事实上正在使用比你本身需要的频宽更多的，例如使用64kbps的HE -AAC格式的流。
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