Since nitrogen is four fifths of the air we breathe, they are surprisingly optimistic about raising the temperature on Mars and believe it could be done in hundred years.
由于氮占我们呼吸的空气的五分之四，他们对提高火星的温度持惊人的乐观态度，相信这可以在一百年内完成。
Between 1912 and 2003, Mount Kilimanjaro lost about four fifths of itsice fields, and the rest of the mountain’s snowcap coulddisappear within the decade.
在1912年至2003年期间，气力马扎罗山丧失了约五分之四的冰原，山顶其余积雪有可能在十年内消失。
Nowadays, a number of people like HUAWEI phones better, and about four-fifths of them are adults.
现在，很多人更喜欢华为手机，这些人中大约五分之四是成年人。
The ivory Buddha carved by Shen Weizhong is the world's smallest piece of sculpture, its size being just four-fifths of a grain of rice.
沈为众雕刻的象牙佛像是世界上最小的雕刻，它只有一粒米的五分之四大。
The ivory Buddha carved by Shen Weizhong, a contemporary Chinese sculptor, is the world's smallest piece of sculpture, its size being just four-fifths that of a grain of rice.
中国当代雕刻工艺师沈为众雕刻的象牙佛像是世界上最小的雕刻。 这个象牙佛像只有一粒米的五分之四大。
In Europe, taxes account for up to four-fifths of the retail price, so even quite big changes in the price of crude have a more muted effect on pump prices than in the past.
在欧洲，税收占汽油零售价的比例高达五分之四，因此，即使是原油价格发生了相当大的波动，对油品价格的影响也比过去要更轻微。
Unfortunately, most of the water picked up from oceans – some four-fifths of the total – promptly falls back into the sea.
不幸的是，从海洋中蒸发出来的水，其中大部分——约占到总量的五分之四——会直接回落到海洋中。
This year, 57% of the fine wine that Sotheby’s sold globally, by value, was bought by Asians; four-fifths of those buyers were from China and Hong Kong.
今年，苏富比拍卖行在全球售出的高级葡萄酒中有57%（以价值计）为亚洲人购买；其中五分之四的买家来自中国和中国香港。
It's no exaggeration: four-fifths of the Earth remains largely unexplored and the Mariana Trench is the planet's deepest mystery.
毫不夸张地说：地球的五分之四还没有被探测，而马里·亚纳海沟就是这其中最具神秘的地方。
India imports four-fifths of its oil, mostly from the Persian Gulf, plus liquefied natural gas from Qatar and Indonesia.
印度五分之四的石油需要进口，主要来自波斯湾，它还从卡塔尔和印尼进口液化天然气。
The oil price has risen mainly because of strong demand in emerging economies, which have accounted for as much as four-fifths of the total increase in oil consumption in the past five years.
在过去五年中这些新兴国家对石油消耗量增长了五分之四，这表明石油价格飞涨的主要原因是这些国家对能源的巨大需求。
Ueberroth, 47, masterminded a triumph that involved four-fifths of the nations of the globe.
尤伯罗斯，47岁，他成功的使全球五分之四的国家参加奥运会。
Today, almost four-fifths of the globe's dollar reserves are held not by G7 central Banks but by emerging economies, notably China and oil producers such as Saudi Arabia.
今天，全球几乎五分之四的美元储备不是被G 7国家的央行掌控，而是被新兴的经济提所控制，主要是中国和产油国沙特阿拉伯。
Four-fifths of Canadian boreal forest products are consumed in the United States, and most of the purchasers there had given little thought to their paper’s origins.
来自加拿大北方森林的产品有五分之四最终都消费在美国市场，而这些产品的购买者压根就没有想过这些产品的来源。
Four-fifths of the top 20-ranked countries are in North America and Europe.
在排名前20位的国家中，五分之四位于北美和欧洲。
Almost four-fifths of passengers were commuters and business passengers in 2008, and three-fifths of all trips were made in London and the south-east, the two richest parts of the country.
2008年，铁路旅客中有将近五分之四是通勤旅客或商务旅客，五分之三的铁路旅行发生在最为富裕的伦敦地区及东南部地区。
According to the Venezuelan Prisons Observatory (OPV), an advocacy group, more than 43,000 prisoners are crammed into jails built for 15,000. Four-fifths of them have not even been sentenced.
据OPV(委内瑞拉监狱瞭望台，一家宣传组织)称，原本为容纳15,000人而建造的监狱被塞入43,000人，这些人中的五分之四未经判决。
According to the Venezuelan Prisons Observatory (OPV), an advocacy group, more than 43, 000 prisoners are crammed into jails built for 15, 000. Four-fifths of them have not even been sentenced.
据OPV(委内瑞拉监狱瞭望台，一家宣传组织)称，原本为容纳15,000人而建造的监狱被塞入43,000人，这些人中的五分之四未经判决。
More than four-fifths of the rural population of 675m work on tiny plots.
多于五分之四的农村人大概675万耕种在非常小块的土地。
Four-fifths of the world's fresh water is frozen.
世界五分之四的淡水都在冰冻状态。
The London bankers in the Astbury Marsden survey were asked which financial centre they expected to be the world's biggest in ten years' time. Nearly four-fifths picked one in Asia.
阿斯特·伯里·马斯登公司对伦敦银行家的调查中，当被问到他们认为未来十年哪座城市会成为世界最大的金融中心，几乎五分之四的人选择了亚洲的城市。
Foreign workers with temporary residence status make up about four-fifths of the population.
外籍临时居住的工作人员约占人口五分之四。
It imports about half of the oil it burns, a share that will rise to two-thirds by 2015 and four-fifths by 2030.
中国国内一半的石油是进口的，到2015年这个数字将达到三分之二，2030年达到五分之四。
More than four-fifths of the world's population can now read and write — including more than two-thirds of Africans.
世界人口的五分之四强现在能够读写——其中包括三分之二强的非洲人。
The creation of the council, however, depends on Congressional passage of a bill making its way through the Senate that would direct four-fifths of the spill penalties toward coastal restoration.
然而，委员会的成立取决于国会能否通过法案，让参议会将五分之四的石油泄漏罚款用于海岸恢复。
At the moment four-fifths of exports go to the United States.
目前，五分之四的出口是针对美国的。
It now takes four-fifths as many vehicle-kilometres of travel to generate a pound of GDP as it did in 1992 (see chart).
如今，GDP里每一英镑中车辆里程的作用已经是1992年的五分之四了(见图)。
It now takes four-fifths as many vehicle-kilometres of travel to generate a pound of GDP as it did in 1992 (see chart).
如今，GDP里每一英镑中车辆里程的作用已经是1992年的五分之四了(见图)。
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