There has been a dramatic rise in the number of extreme weather events over the past 20 years, caused largely by rising global temperatures, according to a new report from the United Nations.
根据联合国的一份新报告，在过去20年里，极端天气事件的数量急剧增加，这主要是由全球气温上升引起的。
Bear markets are normally pitted with some vigorous rallies, as investors in Japan have discovered over the past 20 years.
就像过去20年间的在日本的投资者所发现的那样，熊市常常伴有些强力反弹。
Over the past 20 years, they have accounted for 41 percent of all gains in U.S. labor productivity-but just 11 percent of private-sector job gains.
在过去的20年里，它们在美国的劳动生产率中占据了41%的份额，但是在所有私营领域的工作岗位上却只占到了11%。
Research over the past 20 years have pointed to the importance of micronutrients - substances found in small amounts in foods that make a big difference.
过去20多年的研究已经指出微量营养素的重要性—食物中发现的极少量的物质起着很大的作用。
But there have been no arrests in connection with the latest shootings, and few prosecutions over the past 20 years.
但是并没有就近日的枪击事件采取任何逮捕行动，过去的20多年也鲜有诉讼。
Although over the past 20 years investors have been overweight in equities, asset allocation is now tipping in favour of fixed-income bonds.
尽管在过去20年间投资者持有股票的比重过高，如今的资产配置比重却在向固定收益型债券倾斜。
Indeed, change in Indonesia over the past 20 years has been breathtaking.
的确，印尼在过去20年发生了翻天覆地的变化。
Over the past 20 years, he points out, income per head has grown in countries with private oil industries, but has shrunk in those with nationalised ones.
他指出，过去20年里，私营石油企业的人均收入在不断增加，而在那些国有公司里却不断下降。
Myanmar has, over the past 20 years, developed an extremely close relationship with China, and yet here again was a case of America reasserting its influence in the region.
过去20年当中，缅中两国关系紧密至亲，但当下美缅恢复建交则成为美国努力在该地区重新找回影响力的又一事例。
Praziquantel has been used successfully over the past 20 years to control schistosomiasis in Brazil, Cambodia, China, Egypt, Morocco and Saudi Arabia.
在过去20年里，吡喹酮已被成功地用于在巴西、柬埔寨、中国、埃及、摩洛哥和沙特阿拉伯控制血吸虫病。
The problem has changed very little over the past 20 years. It’s time for everyone to take password security seriously; it’s an important first step in data security.
这个问题在过去20年都没什么变化，现在是人们应该认真对待密码的时候了，这是数据安全的第一步。
According to the Economist's global house-price indices, housing has yielded double-digit returns (including rental income) in most countries over the past 20 years.
根据经济学家杂志的全球房价指数来看，房产已经为许多国家提供了两位数的回报率在过去的20年中。
Although divorce is traditionally discouraged in China, over the past 20 years the rate has soared.
尽管离婚在传统意义上不被提倡，但在过去20年中，我国的离婚率大幅上升。
That evil day has been delayed, over the past 20 years, by the downward trend in interest rates.
在过去20年里，由于利率的下降趋势，这可怕的日子在不断推迟。
Over the past 20 years, the Nobel statement said, Ahtisaari has played a prominent role in resolving serious and long-lasting conflicts in Namibia, Indonesia, Kosovo and Iraq - among other areas.
诺贝尔奖委员会的声明说，在过去20年里，阿赫蒂萨里为解决纳米比亚、印度尼西亚、科索沃和伊拉克等地旷日持久的严重冲突发挥了无与伦比的作用。
The past 20 years have seen a marked increase in the control exercised by manufacturers over their products.
过去20年中，制造商对他们的产品很明显有了更大的控制。
But over the past 20 years, trust in news organizations - particularly in the United States and the United kingdom-has plummeted to new lows.
但20年过去了，对新闻机构的信任——尤其是在美国和英国——跌到了新低。
The drops in mortality rates have meant 767,000 people who would have died prematurely from cancer over the past 20 years did not, the organization said.
美国癌症协会说死亡率下降意味着在过去20年767,000人没有因癌症过早死亡。
The common narrative is that consumers in Britain and America were allowed to build up too much debt over the past 20 years by central bankers who were desperate to avoid recession.
大路化的主体故事是，过去20年来，在央行奋不顾身避免通胀的纵容政策下，美英消费者借了太多的贷款。
Mesa enjoyed a 20 percent increase in profits last year, and its best-selling product, Diabolique Salsa, has had increased sales over each of the past three years.
去年台地的利润上升了20%，其最畅销产品迪亚·波利克调味汁连续三年销量增加。
I'm increasingly convinced that the behavior of global consumers in general, and of U.S. consumers in particular, over the past 20 years was an aberration.
我越来越相信，全球需求总体而言，尤以美国为甚，过往20年里都不正常。
Taxes in the United States have come to just 27% of GDP, on average, over the past 20 years.
过去20多年里，税收占美国GDP的比率平均只有27%。
In the past 10 years, Chinese firms have won the most of international competitive bids worth over USD 20 billion for goods and services financed by World Bank loans and grants.
在过去10年，中国企业赢得了大部分由世界银行贷款和赠款资助的货物和服务合同的国际竞争性招标，总值超过200亿美元。
Issuance of longer-dated bonds maturing over 15 years or more has risen to 20 per cent over the past three months compared with 10 per cent in December last year, according to Dealogic.
Dealogic的数据显示，过去三个月内，到期期限为15年或更长时间的较长期债券发行量比重，已增至20%，而去年12月份为10%。
And in the stampede for university places that has taken place over the past 20 years, clever children from poor families have indeed lost out to dimmer peers from prosperous ones.
在过去二十年间进入大学的热潮中，贫困家庭聪明的孩子确实受到富裕家庭相对愚笨的孩子的挤压。
Take YUM (YUM), parent company of fast-food restaurants including KFC and Taco Bell. Over the past five years, its sales in China have grown by 20% annually.
以肯德基(kfc)、塔可钟(TacoBell)的母公司——百胜餐饮为例，过去5年间，它在中国的销售额每年增长20%。
Over the whole planet, there will be a threefold increase in the average acidity of the oceans, which is unprecedented during the past 20 million years.
在整个地球，海洋平均酸度将增加三倍，这是在过去两千万年里从未发生过的。
Similar results have been achieved in Denmark, where the next-day forecast error has been reduced from 36% to 18-20% over the past ten years, says Mr.
在丹麦也获得了相似的结果，在过去的十年里，丹麦第二天预测误差已经从36%减少到18%- 20%。
Similar results have been achieved in Denmark, where the next-day forecast error has been reduced from 36% to 18-20% over the past ten years, says Mr.
在丹麦也获得了相似的结果，在过去的十年里，丹麦第二天预测误差已经从36%减少到18%- 20%。
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