In the Middle Ages about one in ten Europeans could read; today, with a few exceptions, such as India and parts of Africa, the global rate is comfortably above eight out of ten.
中世纪，十个欧洲人里有一个能够阅读；今天，除了印度和非洲的一些地区极个别例外，全球识字率在80%以上。
The ECB, the U.K. central bank and Sweden's Riksbank took part in a coordinated global rate cut on Oct. 8 with the U.S. Federal Reserve, lowering their key rates by a half percentage point.
欧洲央行、英国央行、瑞典央行都与美国联邦储备委员会(Fed)一起参与了10月8日全球联合减息的行动，均将基准利率下调了50个基点。
In turn, many proponents of "peak oil" theory, the idea that the global rate of oil production has entered a terminal decline, have insisted that the cable confirms their view on resource scarcity.
相应地，许多“石油峰值理论”的支持者认为这封电报恰恰证实了他们关于资源短缺的观点。石油峰值理论认为，全球石油生产率已经进入了最后的衰减期。
In recent decades, environmental threats have expanded beyond regional boundaries to have global reach and, most hauntingly, are multiplying at a dizzying rate.
近几十年来，环境威胁已经超越了地域边界，发展到全球范围，最令人不安的是，环境威胁正以极快的速度成倍增长。
Thoughts turn first to some sort of global statistic, some indicator which would rate the wealth of nations in both economic and environmental terms and show a relationship between the two.
人们首先想到的是某种全球统计数据，某种指标，它将对各国的经济和环境条件进行评级，并显示出两者之间的关系。
Their annual death rate is about twice that of the global average.
他们的年死亡率大约是全球平均水平的两倍。
Understanding this cycle is important, both because it sustains life on Earth and because it is bound up with the rate of global warming.
理解这种循环很重要，不仅因为碳循环维持地球上的生命，而且因为它对于全球变暖的速度有密切关系。
Previous studies have shown how falling aerosol pollution will affect the rate of global climate change.
此前的研究表明气溶胶污染的降低将影响全球气候变化的速率。
The result of the IMF's plans could well be a global tax of symbolic value, set at a very low rate.
IMF的税收计划的结果很可能是设定一个非常低的税率，最终收取少量具有象征意义的全球税。
This helps slow the rate of global warming but also increases ocean acidity, posing a serious threat to Marine life.
这有利于降低全球温室效应的速率，但也提高了海水的酸性，给海洋生物带来了严重的威胁。
They knew there was strong global demand for food, and a growing rate of protein consumption in Asia.
他们认为全球对食品有强烈的需求，亚洲蛋白质的消耗率在不断增长。
Look no further than the European Central Bank, which was notably absent when the Fed made its emergency rate cut amid falling global stocks on Tuesday.
只要看看欧洲中央银行，当美联储星期二在全球证券市场下跌中紧急降低汇率时，它却不见人影。
This year, despite the global financial crisis, the approval rate for Chinese applicants was 80 percent, as compared to 75 percent in 2008.
尽管在全球金融危机的情况下，与2008年的75%相比，今年中国申请人的通过率达到80%。
The rise in global incidence is slowing because HIV epidemics are slowing in Africa, but it is unclear when the global incidence rate will begin to decline.
由于HIV流行正在非洲减缓，全球发病率的增加正在减速，但是不清楚何时全球发病率将开始下降。
Given the losses they have already suffered through the pound's fall, will they step up their purchases, especially as the growth rate of global foreign-exchange reserves is slowing?
由于英镑贬值已使他们损失良多，尤其在全球外汇储备增速放缓时，他们是否会增加购买量便成了个疑问。
This effect is taken by climate scientists as explaining a slower rate of global warming over the 20th century than carbon-dioxide levels alone would suggest.
照气候科学家解释，这一影响减缓了20世纪由二氧化碳导致全球变暖的速度。
This helps slow the rate of global warming but increases ocean acidity, posing a potentially disastrous threat to Marine ecosystems.
虽然这有利于减缓全球变暖的趋势，但却增加了海洋的酸性，有可能对海洋生态系统构成灾难性威胁。
Climate model High levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may have less of an impact on the rate of global warming than feared, a new study suggests.
一项新的研究表明，大气中二氧化碳含量增多可能不会造成全球气候变暖，而只单单引起恐慌。
Arctic temperatures have increased at almost twice the global average rate in the last 100 years; 70,000 square kilometres of sea ice (an area about the size of Ireland) is disappearing annually.
北极的温度上升率在过去的100年中比全球温度的上升率高出了一倍，每年都有7万平方公里的冰海消失，而这一面积相当于整个爱尔兰的面积。
Arctic temperatures have increased at almost twice the global average rate in the last 100 years; 70, 000 square kilometres of sea ice (an area about the size of Ireland) is disappearing annually.
北极的温度上升率在过去的100年中比全球温度的上升率高出了一倍，每年都有7万平方公里的冰海消失，而这一面积相当于整个爱尔兰的面积。
Honeybees are disappearing at an alarming rate - and that's bad news for the global food chain.
蜜蜂正在以惊人的速度消失——对于全球食品连锁商来说，这绝对是个坏消息。
When we need someone's utilization rate we can get it from global variables instead of the server, so that report building time can be saved.
当我们需要某一个人的使用频率时，我们可以从全局变量而不是服务器那里得到这种信息，因此可以节省报表构建时间。
It is estimated that the global TB incidence rate peaked in 2004.
据估计，全球结核病发病率在2004年达到最高峰值。
Never short on ambition, Mr Sarkozy wants the G20 to become the forum for talks about global economic stability and governance, including exchange-rate volatility.
从来就不乏野心的萨科奇想让20国集团成为讨论全球经济稳定和治理以及汇率浮动的论坛。
Never short on ambition, Mr Sarkozy wants the G20 to become the forum for talks about global economic stability and governance, including exchange-rate volatility.
从来就不乏野心的萨科奇想让20国集团成为讨论全球经济稳定和治理以及汇率浮动的论坛。
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