The acting skill of the player is not a quarter as good as his professional brothers.
那位演员的演技远远不如他的师兄弟们。
The lawyer replied, "I'm right on time. I said I'd be home by a quarter of twelve, not a quarter to twelve".
律师回答说：“时间没错啊，我说过我会在十二的四分之一点回家，不是十二点差一刻回家。”
The introduction of new screen formats was put off for a quarter century, and color, though utilized over the next two decades for special productions, also did not become a norm until the 1950s.
新屏幕格式的引入被推迟了四分之一个世纪，而颜色尽管在接下来的二十年里被用于特制产品，它也是直到二十世纪五十年代才成为一种常态。
With its decidedly undecimal sidereal year of 365-and-a-quarter days, that is just not going to happen.
这种事不会发生，因为“恒星年（由365又1/4天所组成）是十一进制的”这一事实是确凿无疑的。
Business indicators have stabilised but this suggests only that the economy is likely to shrink at a similar rate in the current quarter, not that activity has stopped falling.
商业指标已经稳定下来，但这仅仅表示经济有可能在该季度以同样的速率下滑，并不是表明下降的趋势已经停止。
A quarter of the methylated cytosines in stem cells, however, were not followed by guanines.
然而，干细胞里四分之一的甲基胞核嘧啶却没有鸟嘌呤随后。
Then, in the second quarter of 2008, it started to fall—not just as a proportion of income, or after allowing for inflation, but in everyday dollars and cents.
然而，在2008年第二个季度，它居然下滑了—没按收入的比例算，也没扣除物价上涨因素，只是以日常的美元货币计算。
Hackel believes the ability to spot changes to cost of capital will bring superior performance over the long term, not a firm's free cash flows exceeding expectations in a given quarter.
哈克尔认为，发现资本成本变化的能力将给我们带来卓越的长期投资回报，而不只是企业在某特定季度中自由现金流超过预期的一时惊喜。
Figures from the World Bank, which track the value rather than the volume of trade, point to a deceleration in the final quarter, not the acceleration that the CPB's data suggest.
来自世界银行的，更看重价值而非贸易额的专家指出，最后一个季度其实是在减速，并非是像CPB数据所显示的那样是在加速。
"Many were expecting a strong fourth quarter but not a doubling of rate levels in a matter of weeks," said Mr Gaylard.
“许多人当初确实预计第四季度会比较红火，但没有料到运费水平会在几周内翻倍，”盖拉德表示。
Against that grape-shot, they could not hold out a quarter of an hour longer. It was absolutely necessary to deaden the blows.
在这样的连珠炮弹轰击下街垒在一刻钟以后就要垮了，必须削弱它的轰击力。
Until the production release (currently planned for this quarter), JAXB is not a practical alternative for use in real projects.
在该产品发行版(目前计划在这个季度发布)之前，JAXB还无法用于实际项目中。
Under the arrangement, inventory was soon turning over a stunning 70 times per year, and the company does not finish a quarter with a machine unsold.
在这种安排下，存货周转率达到了惊人的每年70次，并且公司每个季度产品都售罄。
Not more than a quarter of your income should go in rent.
你的收入用于房租不应超过四分之一。
I always tell people, if we have a good quarter it's because of the work we did three, four, and five years ago. It's not because we did a good job this quarter.
我总是告诉人们，如果我们某个季度业绩很好，那是因为我们在三年、四年，甚至在五年前所做的工作的功劳，而不是因为我们只在这个季度工作出色。
And then you'll have a lot of these areas that for that particular quarter were not looked at.
然后你们会得到很多的这些区域，那个特殊的地区没有观察到。
More than a quarter regularly drink too much and many isolate themselves from friends and family: almost a half had not left their homes for a long period and more than a quarter had lost friends.
超过四分之一的人时常饮酒过量，并且有许多人将自己与朋友和家人隔绝开来：几乎半数女性很长一段时间都足不出户，超过四分之一的人已经没有朋友了。
A practical example: End of quarter in a public company wreaks havoc on all departments not just sales.
一个实际例子：每到季度末，上市公司所有部门，不仅仅是销售都要忙做一团。
Inevitably, after about a quarter of a mile, he decided it was not fun.
不可避免的是，大约跑了一英里的四分之一，他决定，跑步并不适合他。
Studies have shown that not all these people are indigent: a quarter or more can afford insurance, but choose not to buy it.
研究表明并非所有人都是因为缺钱而不购买健康保险，超过四分之一的人能够买得起保险，但却选择不买。
Indeed, American consumer spending has not contracted for even a single quarter since 1991.
事实上，自1991年以来，美国消费者支出从未缩水过任何一季。
And modern life adds to the burden, with one in five forgetting important passwords and a quarter not remembering to charge their mobile phone battery.
现代生活加重了这一负担，五分之一的人忘记了重要的密码，四分之一人记不起给手机电池充电。
Fewer than a quarter of the promised jobs have materialised and not a single engine has rolled off the production line.
之前所承诺的工作岗位，现在兑现的不足四分之一，而且在组装线连一台机车也没有产出过。
It did not report first - quarter earnings last year and did not provide a comparison.
该行去年没有发布首季盈利数据，并且没有提供比较数据。
A stir began distinctly in the Saint-Leu quarter, but it did not resemble the movement of the first attack.
骚动很明显地在圣勒那方开始了，可是这次不象第一次进攻。
The reason for this is the lag between the change in rates and the time it takes to pass the higher costs on to customers. It's not unique to that first quarter, it's a traditional trend.
其原因主要是运价上涨和告知客户在时间上的滞后性造成的，这不是第一季度特有的表现，这是一个传统的趋势。
Which perhaps is not surprising. If you had a worm that constituted a quarter of your body weight, you'd eat more too.
这也并不奇怪，如果你携带占身体四分之一重量的寄生虫，也会吃更多。
Which perhaps is not surprising. If you had a worm that constituted a quarter of your body weight, you'd eat more too.
这也并不奇怪，如果你携带占身体四分之一重量的寄生虫，也会吃更多。
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