Somewhere along the line, holiday tipping went from an optional thank-you for a year of services to a Mafia-style protection racket.
一路走来，节日小费从对一年的服务表示感谢的选择变成了黑社会性质的勒索保护费。
Reserves proposed earlier this year for Australia's southwestern and northwestern coastal regions have also been criticised for failing to give habitats adequate protection.
今年早些时候提议的设立在澳大利亚西南及西北沿海地区的保护区因未能给予栖息地足够的保护而受到批评。
The vaccine is derived from the most commonly circulating strain of rotavirus, and also offered good protection against some other strains across the two-year period.
这种疫苗是根据最常见的轮状病毒毒株制成的，而且在两年的时间里也能很好地保护人体不受其它一些毒株的感染。
In stark contrast, the department approved only 39 per cent of protection visa requests for non-boat arrivals in the first half of this financial year, or 909 people from the 2321 people who applied.
作为鲜明的对比，本财年的前半，移民部仅批准了39%的非坐船抵达人的保护签证申请，即从2321位申请者中批准了909人。
Brian Kristensen, of the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, estimates that between 200 and 500 premature deaths each year in Denmark are due to noise.
布莱恩·克里斯·藤森(丹麦环保局人员)估计道，在丹麦每年有200至500起早夭事件与噪音有关。
Earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency began regulating greenhouse-gas emissions at some energy plants and factories after efforts to address the problem through legislation stalled.
今年早些时候，当解决温室气体排放问题的努力在立法机构搁浅后，环保署开始径自对温室气体排放进行规制。
It instructed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reconsider its decision last year to bar California from regulating greenhouse-gas emissions from cars.
该指令要求美国环保署重新考虑去年做出的禁止加州规范汽车排放温室气体的决定。
Dr. Makhijani said that if a billion passengers were screened with the dose assumed by the radiation protection council, that would mean 10 more cancer deaths a year.
Makhhijani博士说，如果数10亿的乘客经受辐射防护委员会所假设的剂量的扫描，那将意味着一年有10列以上癌症死亡。
This year alone sees significant steps forward in the protection of employees' rights, with the new Labour Contract Law (effective since January this year).
今年，中国颁布新《劳动合同法》今年1月开始施行，在保护员工权利上迈出了重要的一步。
ON JUNE 1st last year, General Motors, the world’s largest car company until 2008 (when Toyota overtook it), filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with liabilities that were twice its assets.
去年6月1日通用汽车援引11号法案申请破产保护时，其债务是资产的两倍。 通用是世界上最大的汽车公司，直到2008年丰田超过它。
A study published earlier this year in the Journal of Food Protection found that natural hot dogs had anywhere from one-half to 10 times the amount of nitrite that conventional hot dogs contained.
在今年早些时候在食物保护杂志上刊登的一篇研究指出半个天然热狗中所含的亚硝酸盐是一整条传统热狗中所含亚硝酸盐的十倍。
Each year, the nation's factory farms, collectively produce 2 billion tons of manure, a substance that's rated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as one of the country's top 10 pollutants.
每年，全国的农场，总共要生产20亿吨粪肥，环境保护署(EPA)认为这是排名前10位的污染物之一。
Last year, however, in response to a court decision, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was forced to limit the number of farms covered by its rules on permits and manure management.
然而在去年，在回应法院的裁决中，环境保护局(EnvironmentalProtectionAgency)按照许可制度和粪肥管理的规定被迫限制农场数量。
Swaps are available on a variety of corporate and sovereign debts and with varying periods of protection; one- and five-year contracts are common.
掉期合约可以针对任何企业债或主权债，同时也有各种不同的保护时限，其中一年期和五年期合约最为常见。
Given the hundreds of thousands of new threats recorded each year, a really solid anti-virus protection should update every few minutes, notes Mr McPherson.
麦克弗森指出，鉴于每年都有成千上万的新威胁记录下来，一个真正坚固的反病毒保护应该每几分钟就进行更新。
Polar bears were listed as threatened last year, the first time any species had been given protection primarily because of climate change.
北极熊在去年被列进濒临物种名单，此为首例因气候变迁而引起的保护行为。
The past year has been a rough one. People are less disposed to make costly gestures towards environmental protection in a slump.
过去的一年是艰难的一年，由于经济衰退，人们越来越不愿为了环保而花大价钱。
Individuals born in the year of the tiger areknown for their love of competition and fierce protection of lovedones.
虎年出生的人热爱竞争，能自己所爱的人挡住狂风暴雨。
IN THE challenge by Ilse Aigner, the German minister of consumer protection, to Mark Zuckerberg, the 25-year-old founder of Facebook, it is hard to say who is the David.
在德国消费者保护部部长伊尔莎艾格纳向25岁的Facebook创始人马克扎克伯格发起的挑战中，很难说谁是大卫王，谁是歌利亚。
Last year American spent 22.5 billion dollars on dietary supplements, hoping to buy a protection against the whole range of illnesses.
去年，美国人花在食物添加品上的钱高达两百二十五亿，他们花这些钱是希望买到一种对多种疾病的预防。
If it takes a company a year to get up to speed, that is one year of lost sales-and a year of patent protection squandered.
如果一家公司花费了一年时间步入正轨，那就是一年销售额的损失——也是一年专利保护期的损失。
If it takes a company a year to get up to speed, that is one year of lost sales-and a year of patent protection squandered.
如果一家公司花费了一年时间步入正轨，那就是一年销售额的损失——也是一年专利保护期的损失。
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