"Rather than a case of abject failure, Rapu Nui is an unlikely story of success," they claim.
他们声称:“拉普努伊不是一个悲惨的失败案例,而是一个不太可能成功的故事。”
But both claim their planes will consume at least 15% less fuel than the current A320 and 737. They will also be much cheaper.
但是,他们都声称他们的飞机的耗油量将比现在的A320和737少15%,而且它们的价格也更加便宜。
Dearer oil is pushing the dollar down, they claim, because oil exporters import more from Europe than America and hold less of their oil revenues in dollars.
他们认为珍贵的石油正在使美元贬值,因为石油出口国从欧洲进口商品的数量要多于美国,从而获得的美元石油收入较少。
Girls' performance at school may be boosted by what they perceive to be their teachers' belief that they will achieve higher results and be more conscientious than boys, the academics claim.
由于老师普遍认为女孩应该比男孩成绩更好,上课更加专注,这种鼓励让她们在校的表现相应得到提升。
“When they can claim a better result than [traditional diagnostic methods], that’s pretty amazing, ” Grimm said.
“当他们能够宣布一个比传统诊断方法更好的结果时,那是相当令人高兴的,”格瑞姆说。
Republicans claim they will not agree on a penny less than $61 billion, which is too little for some more aggressive freshmen.
共和党声称,即使比610亿美元少一分钱,他们也不会同意。这个数目对一些更具雄心的众议院新议员来说太少了。
They claim to have founded more than 500 places of learning in 90 countries.
他们声称在全球90个国家建立了超过500个教学点。
In recent days, some have defended Mortenson by noting that a number of C.A.I. schools were built and are still functioning, and they claim this is better than nothing at all.
最近几年来,一些为摩顿森辩护的人总是将目光聚集于中亚协会盖了多少所学校,有多少学校现在还在使用这些问题上,他们宣称这总比无所事事要来得强。
Not only do the surveys undermine Mr Obama's claim that Americans can keep their insurance if they like: they also suggest that the exchanges' subsidies will gobble up more money than expected.
这份报告不仅仅破坏奥巴马关于美国人可以保持他们喜欢的保险的宣称,还指出兑换补贴将会吃掉比预期更多的钱。
They claim IPCC investigators failed to notice police had taken more than 24 hours to write accounts of his arrest and death.
他们声称IPCC的调查员们没能成功注意到警方拥有超过24小时,用来书写有关阿尔安尼逮捕和死亡的陈述。
The Serbs have confiscated more than 25 properties which they claim belong to him or to his associates.
塞尔维亚没收了他们声称属于萨里奇和其同伙的25处以上的房产。
Most people, when asked, claim they would rather lose their hearing than their sight.
大多数人被问起时都会说他们宁可失聪也不愿失明。
Ghost hunters who repeat the claim that Einstein's theories provide a sound basis for ghosts reveal less about ghosts than they do about their poor understanding of basic science.
一直反复宣称爱因斯坦的理论为幽灵的存在性提供了基本依据的搜鬼者揭露的并不是幽灵的存在性,而是他们对基础科学的理解的匮乏。
How can we flawed humans claim to be the only species created 'in His image,' when by their very nature they are surely closer to the Creator than we are?
当鸟类毫无疑问的比人类更接近创造者(上帝)的时候,满是瑕疵的人类却还敢说自己是上帝以自己的形象创造的唯一的种族。
Bonds have the merit of providing steady income, at rates that are now very high; they tend to be less volatile than stocks; and they have a higher legal claim on a company's assets.
债券具有提供稳定收益的优点,目前的债券收益率非常高;债券和股票相比,其价格波动小;而且对公司资产具有更高的法律索偿权。
For example, they will claim to find potential alternative partners less attractive than single people do.
例如,他们会觉得可选择的潜在伴侣吸引力不如单身异性。
Critics claim that Banks' high-paying bonus culture encouraged a short-term vision that pushed institutions into over-lending and taking more risks than they could afford.
批评者表示,银行的高额奖金文化鼓励短期目标,将金融机构拖入过度借贷的泥潭之中,甘冒比超过自身承受能力的更大风险。
This is because blondes believe they are more attractive to men than other women and so are used to getting their own way, researchers claim.
研究人员表示,这是由于金发女子自认对异性更具吸引力,因此养成了为所欲为的个性。
There are translators who claim they never allow a less-than-perfect translation to leave their desk. They are lying.
有些译者说他们决不允许自己的翻译有半点瑕疵,他们在撒谎。
So let me go on now to more radical claims, a claim about the logic of good and bad, rather than about how they happen to show up in the world.
接下来是更激进的观点,关于好坏逻辑的观点,而不是,它们如何碰巧出现的问题。
The reason, they claim, is that dogs evolved bigger brains because friendly, social mammals need more grey matter than solitary, aloof ones.
他们这么说的原因是狗狗们更勤地使用大脑,因为像它们那样友好的、社会型的哺乳动物的大脑比那些喜欢独处的、冷漠的动物拥有更多的灰质。
Even more people than claim they invented Facebook.
应该要比自称发明了Facebook的人多吧。
More than 120 million Americans now claim a religious affiliation; and a recent Gallup survey indicated that 44% of them report that they attend church services weekly.
现在美国有一亿两千万人信奉宗教;最近一项民意调查显示这些信徒中44%的人每周都去教堂作礼拜。
Ronald Lauder, a founder of the Neue Galerie, was actively engaged with restitution issues for more than 20 years, advising the family as they pursued their claim.
新画廊的创建人罗纳德•劳德(RonaldLauder)在“偿还运动”中活跃了20多年,当克利姆特追寻其所有财产时,他也不时地提出忠告与建议。
Some of them claim they were not paid, or received much less than the agreed amount.
其中有些人说,他们没有拿到薪水,或者得到的报酬比原先同意的要少得多。
China does not have a long memory any longer than any other nation as Westerners inclines to claim. They simply suffered more than the most.
中国并不拥有比其他民族更强的记忆力,很多西方人更倾向这么认为。他们只是比其他大多数民族遭受更多的苦难。
China does not have a long memory any longer than any other nation as Westerners inclines to claim. They simply suffered more than the most.
中国并不拥有比其他民族更强的记忆力,很多西方人更倾向这么认为。他们只是比其他大多数民族遭受更多的苦难。
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