That year American public debt was just over two-fifths of GDP.
那一年,美国的公共债务仅仅占到GDP的五分之二.
Two-fifths of the Iraqi professional class have fled the country.
伊拉克五分之二的职业阶层已逃离国家。
Two-fifths of Britain’s exports go to the 17-country currency block.
英国五分之二的出口销往欧元区的17国。
Or again: about two-fifths the height of Scafell Pike, the highest peak in England.
或者说：大约是英格兰最高山峰斯科费尔峰高度的五分之二。
Robot workers offer more hope to some: two-fifths of all the world's industrial robots are in Japan.
对有些人来说机器人提供了更多希望：世界上五分之二的工业机器人在日本。
It occupies only one-fifth of the world's farmland but contributes two-fifths of the world's food output.
灌溉农业用地只占到世界农业用地的五分之一，但是却供应着世界粮食产量的五分之二。
Yet if two-fifths of Britain’s population does end up with swine flu, that seems a particularly heavy toll.
但如果英国2/5的人口都感染上了猪流感，那意味着该国的确受影响严重。
One out of every four Germans today is older than 60, and in 30 years the proportion will rise to two-fifths.
今日每四个德国人中有一个年龄超过60岁，30年后这一比例会上升到五分之二。
Were the Treaty of Rome signed today, the EU would not choose to spend two-fifths of its budget on agriculture.
如果《罗马条约》【4】是今天签订的，那么欧盟就不会将其五分之二的预算花在农业上了。
And almost two-fifths (38 per cent) say they would not have started their course had they not received the grant.
将近五分之二（38%）的人说，如果他们没有收到拨款，他们就不会开始上课。
America's export prowess meant that by the end of the 1920s it held almost two-fifths of the world's gold reserves.
美国的强劲出口导致到了20世纪20年代末，它几乎掌握着世界五分之二黄金储备。
Since by that reckoning China’s GDP is currently only two-fifths the size of America’s, that day may still seem distant.
按这种方式计算，中国目前的GDP只是美国的2/5，赶超美国的日子可能仍然十分遥远。
According to one study, two-fifths of all boys of secondary-school age in urban India are getting some after-school tutoring.
根据一项调查显示，在印度城市里，上中学的男孩中的五分之二都上课外家教。
Sony, for example, expects to outsource about two-fifths of the 25m TVs it will sell this year - double that of recent years.
例如，索尼预期今年将售出2500万台电视机，其中约五分之二将外包——是近几年的两倍。
By 2015 these countries could be buying as many diamonds as America, which currently accounts for two-fifths of global demand.
到2015年，这些国家的购买量可能会与美国并驾齐驱，目前美国的钻石消费量占全球需求量的五分之二。
The median female income has risen faster than the male median, growing from about two-fifths in 1960 to three-fifths in 2008.
（——求指点，译者）中间阶层女性的收入比男性快，从1910年的五分之二增长到2008年的五分之三。
Some 231m Indonesians account for two-fifths of the population of ASEAN, the ten-country Association of South-East Asian Nations.
东南亚国家联盟由十个国家组成，而印尼人口约2.31亿，占东盟的五分之二。
Earlier this year more than two-fifths of TDC Play users told Megafon, a pollster, that they were downloading fewer illegal files.
据今年早些时候Megafon(民意调查公司)的调查，五分之二的TCD用户减少了非法文件的下载。
HOME to nearly two-fifths of humanity, two neighbouring countries, India and China, are two of the world's fastest-growing economies.
作为将近五分之二人类的家乡，两个邻国印度和中国是世界上增长最快的两大经济体。
The Charity Commission has revealed no formal plans to assess more private schools, but two-fifths of those it did scrutinise failed.
慈善委员会并无计划评估更多私立学校，但五分之二受评估的学校没有通过审核。
Today's four most populous emerging markets-china, India, Indonesia and brazil-will make up two-fifths of global GDP, measured at PPP.
当今的4个人口最多的新兴市场-中国，印度，印度尼西亚和巴西-将会占据5分之二的世界GDP，以购买力差异评算。
Last month Westlands water District, in which two-fifths of Mr Errotabere's land lies, learnt that it would get no water from the federal canal this year.
上个月，西部水源地区，也就是艾罗塔·贝尔先生五分之二的土地所在的区域，被告知今年将不会从联邦运河里得到一滴水。
But gas already provides two-fifths of the nation's power and most of its heating, and the prospect of becoming even more reliant on it makes many people nervous.
但是天然气已经占据了全国五分之二的供电，以及大部分的供热，许多人对于更加依赖天然气这一前景感觉很紧张。
Storage is essential to provide supplies in winter (two-fifths of the Indus's flow comes from the summer melting of glaciers) but Pakistan's two big dams are silting up.
蓄水对于冬季供水至关重要（五分之二的印度河流量来自夏季冰川融水），可巴基斯坦的两个大水坝已经淤塞。
The volcano is one of the most activein Africa -- Nyiragongo and its sister volcano Nyamuragira areresponsible for two-fifths of the African continent's volcano eruptions.
这座火山是非洲最活跃的几座火山之一，和它的姐妹火山尼亚穆拉吉拉一起承包了非洲大陆2/5的火山活动。
Progress is slow, partly because two-fifths of the group’s members are illiterate, and partly because of resistance to change, admits Arnoldo Ñanculef, the group’s leader.
组织的领导阿诺尔-南柯尔夫承认,进展是缓慢的，一部分是由于2/5的协会成员没有受过教育，另一部分原因是一些成员对于转变的抵制态度。
Progress is slow, partly because two-fifths of the group’s members are illiterate, and partly because of resistance to change, admits Arnoldo Ñanculef, the group’s leader.
组织的领导阿诺尔-南柯尔夫承认,进展是缓慢的，一部分是由于2/5的协会成员没有受过教育，另一部分原因是一些成员对于转变的抵制态度。
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