Only around half of consumer spending is taxed at the standard VAT rate of 20%, a low share compared with other rich countries.
只有大约一半的消费者支出按20%的标准增值税税率纳税，这一比例与其他富裕国家相比较低。
Coal prices also are low, owing to oversupply and the scaling-down of demand, especially from China, which bums half of the world's coal.
煤炭价格也很低，原因是供应过剩和需求下降，尤其是来自中国的需求，中国消耗了全球一半的煤炭。
Coal prices also are low, owing to over-supply and the scaling-down of demand, especially from China, which burns half of the world's coal.
因为供应过剩和需求下降，煤炭价格也很低，尤其是消耗了全球一半煤炭的中国的需求下降。
While bullying is parents' greatest concern over all, nearly half of low-income parents worry their child will get shot, compared with one-fifth of high-income parents.
尽管欺凌是父母最担心的事情，但近一半的低收入父母担心他们的孩子会被枪杀，而高收入父母中只有五分之一的人担心这样的问题。
Nearly half of high-earning, college-graduate parents enrolled their children in arts classes before they were 5, compared with one-fifth of low-income, less-educated parents.
将近一半的高收入、大学毕业的父母在孩子5岁前就让他们上艺术课；而在低收入、教育程度较低的父母中，这一比例仅为五分之一。
Half a century of town and country planning has enabled it to retain an enviable rural coherence, while still permitting low-density urban living.
半世纪以来，合理的城乡规划使英国得以保留令其他国家羡慕的乡村协调性，同时还允许低密度的城镇人口。
It is important to note that if there is no bias in the estimates, then half of the estimates are high and half are low.
很重要的是要注意，如果估计中不存在偏置，那么有可能是一半估算值高，一半低。
There, they recruited local people whose standard of living was low: 26% had no formal education, only half owned TVs, none had a car and only a tiny minority had a telephone in the house.
在这里，他们选择那些生活水平低下的当地人为实验对象，其中26%的人没有接受过正规教育，只有一半人有电视机，没有一个人有汽车，极少数人家里有电话。
Even though we as U.S. military here in Japan have very low crime rate, half that of the local population, still we are guests here and one incident is one too many.
即使驻日美军的犯罪率很低，只有一般人口犯罪率的一半，但是我们在这里是客人，即使只出一件事也是不可容许的。
Cheap phones and charges as low as half a cent a minute are fueling growth.
廉价的手机以及每分钟半分钱的收费也大大刺激了手机销量的增长。
The new chips are 37 percent faster than the company's current ones when operating at low voltages to keep power consumption low. And they require half the power to perform at a given switching speed.
在低功耗的低电压模式下，它比公司当前产品的速度提升37%，而在规定的开关速度下，功耗则较之降低一半。
Ofsted found that about half the schools and nursery providers visited used low attainment and relatively slow progress as their principal indicators of SEN.
Ofsted发现在所参观的近一半的学校和幼儿园都用低成就和相对缓慢的进步作为他们特殊教育需求的主要指标。
The European Central Bank also lowered its key lending rate by a half point to a record low of 1.5%.
欧洲央行同时也下调了贷款利率0.5个百分点，创历史新低达1.5%。
Collectively, these low-level, “quality of life” crimes account for nearly half of all arrests.
总体来说，低社会阶层的“生活质量”犯罪（注：一些针对财产的犯罪，如涂鸦、破坏财务等，以及一些存在受害人的犯罪被归入此类犯罪）占到了所有逮捕数量的差不多一半。
For example, say a manufacturing company is experiencing low product demand and therefore decides to sell off half its factory equipment at liquidation prices.
例如，一家制造企业正经历产品低需求阶段，因此决定以清算价格卖掉一半的工厂设备。
Only one child in nine from a low-income background reaches the top income quartile; almost half with parents in the top quartile remain there.
处在低收入家庭中的孩子，只有九分之一到达收入的上层阶级；一半的富二代却能留在那个阶级里。
Chelsea's elementary school was about 60 percent black, and more than half the kids were from low-income families.
切尔西就读的小学里有大约60%的学生是黑人，超过一半的学生来自低收入家庭。
These rates, which are already at a half-century low, mainly reflect expected future short-term rates.
这个利率反映的是未来的短期利率，它已经处在半个世纪以来的低水平。
Followers of the grapefruit diet eat half a grapefruit or a serving of grapefruit juice with every low-calorie, high-protein meal.
葡萄柚餐的追随者吃半个葡萄柚或者一份有葡萄油汁的低卡路里，高蛋白的套餐。
Even before the current price boom started two years ago, food aid was running at historically low levels, perhaps half the real-terms total of two decades earlier.
即使在此次粮价开始上涨的两年前，食品援助已处于历史较低水平，以实值计算或许只有二十年前的一半。
The surging waters of Hurricane Katrina submerged half of the low-lying islands.
卡特里娜飓风所引起的汹涌海水淹没了地势低洼岛屿的一半。
And if so, when, at what price and how would [Oracle] avoid cannibalizing [its] low-end, half-rack Oracle database machine running on Sun?
如果是这样的话，价格改如何界定？甲骨文怎样避免同自身的低端数据库发生冲突？
He rattled the far post with a low left-footed effort in the first-half but when opportunity knocked in the 84th minute to become the match-winner, he fluffed a golden chance with his right foot.
在上半场，他有一个左脚低平球远射至远门柱，但在84分钟的时候的一个机会被犯规，本可以有机会让他成为本队的获胜功臣，但他却用右脚踢飞了这个黄金机会。
The report warned that US corn and soybean stocks were also dangerously low, with the department of agriculture projecting supplies at about half typical levels.
报告同时警告美国的玉米和大豆库存已经降到了危险的程度，在参考了农业部计划供应量的因素后，也就是正常库存水平的一半的样子。
Oil prices have more than doubled from the low point they hit in the spring, but are still around half the all-time high of nearly $150 a barrel they reached in early summer last year.
比起今春的价格低谷，油价如今已涨了一倍多，但这仍只是去年初夏创纪录的每桶近150美元价格的一半左右。
It is about to renew half of its models and had the foresight to begin low-cost production in eastern Europe, with a factory in Slovakia and another, shared with Toyota, in the Czech Republic.
要实现这种期望结果，主要依靠更新其一半的款式以及通过其在东欧斯诺文尼亚与另一家在捷克与丰田合作的生产厂为了长远利益而降低生产成本。
Milk producers say that milk prices have fallen so low that they are selling their milk at about half its production cost.
奶农称，现在牛奶价格非常低，仅有生产成本的一半。
Milk producers say that milk prices have fallen so low that they are selling their milk at about half its production cost.
奶农称，现在牛奶价格非常低，仅有生产成本的一半。
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