If servers in Pennsylvania regularly wrote "Thank you" on restaurant bills, their average income from tips would be significantly higher than it otherwise would have been.
如果宾夕法尼亚州的服务员经常在餐馆账单上写上“谢谢你”，他们从小费中获得的平均收入将大大高于其他情况下的平均收入。
The temperature in the Arctic is 18℃ higher than it was 125 years ago.
北极的温度比125年前高了 18℃。
There is considerable evidence that the number of new companies starting up this year will be no higher than it was last year.
有相当多的证据表明，今年新成立的公司数量不会比去年多。
Moreover, the likelihood of being caught is dramatically higher than it was a few years ago.
此外，贿赂行为被发现的可能性比前几年要明显高得多。
Without their help, the price of a college education would be even higher than it is currently.
没有他们的帮助，大学教育的费用会比目前更高。
Without it, the gentleman said, the value of the Deutschemark would be 50% or 75% higher than it is under the euro.
如果没有这个身份，这位先生说，德国马克的汇率将比欧元高出50%或75%。
Systemwide air traffic is down 22% since 2000, and controller head count is slightly higher than it was that year.
自2000年起，航空交通全系统缩减了22%，控制员人数却要比那一年稍微高一些。
By any calculation (for example, as a percentage of assets), this is higher than it has been in almost half a century.
无论按照什么样的方式计算(比如按资产的比例计算)，这在大约半个世纪内比其他时候都要高。
Another big difference is that inflation in India is much higher than it is in China, where consumer-price inflation is running at 3%.
另一大区别是，印度的通胀远高于中国，在中国其消费者物价通胀率是3%。
We know from studying ancient Antarctic ice cores that this concentration is higher than it has been for at least the past 650, 000 years.
我们通过研究古南极冰芯了解到，这个浓度至少高于过去65万年内的二氧化碳浓度。
Two years after the 1987 market crash, the Dow was 400 points higher than it had been on the Friday before Black Monday, a gain of 20%.
在1987年市场发生崩盘的两年后，道指比“黑色星期一”前的那个周五高出了400点，涨幅为20%。
HMIC predict that by March 2012 the proportion of the police workforce working in frontline roles will be higher than it was in March 2010.
HMIC预计到2012年3月在前线工作的警力比例会超过2010年3月的水平。
Its rate of malnutrition-nearly half the children under three weigh less than they should-is much higher than it should be given India's level of income.
印度的营养不良率高得出奇，三岁以下儿童近半数体重过轻，这与其收入水平远不成比例。
"Our network food Banks are calling us every day, telling us that demand for emergency food is higher than it has ever been in our history," said Escarra.
“我们食品库的网络每天打电话告诉我们，紧急食品的需求又创历史新高，”埃斯卡拉说。
Well, if you look at the annual reports of their asset allocation, in June of 1987, their equity allocation was higher than it had been for fifteen years.
如果你去看看，他们那时候的资产配置年报，1987年6月，权益资产的比重，达到15年来的最高点。
The oil price is 1.5 times higher than it was in 2007, the peak of general optimism?; inflation is heading down; employment is up and consumption is robust.
如今油价是2007年的1.5倍，总体乐观的最高峰；通货膨胀得到抑制；就业状况良好且国内消费稳定。
The office vacancy rate in downtown stands at 21%-higher than it was four years ago, during the dotcom slump, and almost twice as high as the Silicon Valley average.
城市中心区办公用房的空闲率达到21%，比四年前网络经济泡沫期间的空闲率还要高，更几乎是硅谷的两倍。
This may be keeping the rate at which big Banks borrow from each other higher than it would otherwise be, thinks Mr Whalen (though it has fallen from its peak last month).
这样一来，大行之间彼此拆借利率(？)将比正常时期更高(虽然自上月起它已从顶峰滑落)。
Families like mine are on the rise - nearly one in 10 British children now lives in a mixed-race family, a figure that is six times higher than it was when I was a child.
像我这样的家庭在增加——现在，近十分之一英国孩子生活在混血家庭。这个数字比我童年时高六倍。
At 70% of GDP, the average rich economy's net sovereign debt is 50% higher than it was in 2007, and more than twice as high as the average debt burden in emerging economies.
发达国家的平均主权债务相比2007年增加了50%达到了的GDP70 %，几乎是新兴经济体负债水平的两倍。
So even though more Britons than ever before describe themselves as comfortably off, the share of children being educated privately is barely higher than it was two decades ago.
尽管现在越来越多英国人过得十分宽裕，但孩子在私立学校的开销比以往的20年都高。
Employment has actually fallen since the end of the recession; and unemployment would be even higher than it is were it not for discouraged would-be jobseekers quitting the workforce.
失业率甚至升高了，原因是沮丧的员工辞职而成为求职者。【其间，本来即将就业的人们由于受挫而选择了待业，否则，失业率会比现在更高。】
Here, countries have escaped the fertility trap and the childbearing rate is around 1.8-not high, but higher than it was, and, in some cases, reaching the magic replacement level.
这里的国家逃离了生育陷阱，生育率大约1.8——不高，但已今非昔比，而且有时候达到了神奇的更替水平。
Here, countries have escaped the fertility trap and the childbearing rate is around 1.8-not high, but higher than it was, and, in some cases, reaching the magic replacement level.
这里的国家逃离了生育陷阱，生育率大约1.8——不高，但已今非昔比，而且有时候达到了神奇的更替水平。
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