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。
Honda added a production line this year, hoping to boost domestic sales.
本田公司今年增加了一条生产线，希望提高国内的销售额。
Last year the millionth truck rolled off the assembly line.
去年，第100万辆卡车驶下了装配线。
More than 3,000 police officers were wounded in the line of duty last year.
去年三千多名警官在执行任务时受伤。
Last year Mattel, the company that makes Barbie dolls, added some Barbies to its line that have different skin tones and hair textures.
去年，生产芭比娃娃的美泰公司在其产品线中增加了一些有不同肤色和不同发质的芭比娃娃。
John, wearing a harness and line, actually caught 25-year-old Jenny Goodman before she hit the ground.
约翰系着安全带和绳索，在25岁的珍妮·古德曼摔在地上之前接住了她。
According to this line of thought, the verbal abilities that blossom in the two year old allow events to be coded in a form radically different from the action-based codes of the infant.
根据这个思路，两岁的儿童发展出的语言能力可以使他们对事件的组织方式与婴儿基于动作的组织方式有根本的差异。
It is feared that a failure to address early-year challenges, such as poor handwriting, leads to much more serious problems down the line with these pupils facing reduced career prospects.
人们担心，如果不解决小时候面临的挑战，如书写糟糕，将会导致更严重的问题，这些学生面临的就业前景会更严峻。
It was reported that she waited for her friend to catch up for about 5-6 hours so that they could cross the finishing line together, but this year she took part in the marathon by herself, and chose the longest distance.
据悉，为了和朋友一起冲过终点线，她等了5-6个小时，但今年她独自参加了马拉松比赛，并选择了最长的距离。
It is almost half a year since workers started building the underground Line 1 in Nantong.
南通地铁1号线建设已经开始快半年了。
This year Hebei Province will speed up the building of an express line between Xiongan and Beijing Daxing International Airport.
今年河北省将加快建设雄安至北京大兴国际机场的快线。
Phillips figures that each robot will be capable of covering 80 miles of line twice a year.
据菲利普斯测算，一台机器人一年可以覆盖80英里的线路两次。
The people took a year of persuading; but they built the line.
她花了一年时间来说服这些人，但最终他们着手修建了水渠。
As the line 5 subway will open within this year and the Olympic special line and airport line are almost completed, a huge underground transportation network is taking shape.
随著5号线于今年内通车，奥运专线和机场线即将完工，一个庞大的地下交通网已初具规模。
With a line for 10 year, 5 year, and one year goals, you’ll find this card is a great starting point for goal setting.
每一行分别代表你十年，五年和一年的目标，你会发现这张卡片对于目标设置是一个很重要的起点。
Line 10 opened just last year as one of the city's newest subways.
10号线是去年新开的地铁线之一。
Safra Catz, Oracle’s president, expects Sun to contribute more than $1.5 billion to Oracle’s bottom line in the first year and more than $2 billion in the second.
甲骨文总裁萨弗拉•卡兹期望Sun公司在第一年中能为公司贡献不少于15亿美元的营业利润，在第二年则希望能超过20亿美元。
Some 44m Americans live below the official poverty line ($21, 954 a year for a family of four).
约44,000,000美国人生活在官方贫困线（一个家庭每年21945美元）以下。
If the Dreamliner starts rolling off the production line towards the end of this year, as Boeing promises, it will be billions over budget and three years behind schedule.
如果梦幻客机在今年年底开始投入生产线，就像波音承诺的那样，将会超过预算数十亿美元，而且比计划晚三年时间完成。
The costs of chronic care can be catastrophic for patients as well as health systems, driving many millions of households below the poverty line each year.
对病人和卫生体系而言，长期治疗的费用可能是灾难性的，每年将数以百万计的家庭逼至贫困线以下。
They cause billions of dollars in losses of national income, and they push millions of people below the poverty line, each and every year.
每年它们都会使国家收入产生数十亿美元的损失，并将数百万人推向贫穷线以下。
Faris says the company plans to build its pilot line next year, and will start by making batteries for portable electronics to prove the viability of the printed solid-state batteries.
法里斯说公司计划明年建一条试验性生产线，将开始生产可移动电子设备用电池，以证明印刷固态电池的实用性。
Carmakers have reckoned on slower sales this year. “The trend line is 10 to 15 per cent continuing growth levels,” said Kevin Wale, GM's head of China operations.
汽车制造商们已经料想到今年汽车销售增量会放缓. “预计会有10%至15%的增长水平. ”通用汽车公司总裁甘文维表示.
Out-of-pocket expenditure at the point of service is the least efficient, and the most impoverishing - already pushing millions below the poverty line each year.
在服务站点自费支付效率最低，而且最可能导致贫穷——这种办法已经每年将数百万人推至贫困线以下。
This month, it was reported that 15.1 percent of Americans live below the poverty line last year, the high level since 1993.
据本月报道显示，去年有15.1%的美国人生活在贫困线以下，这个比例是自1993年来最高水平。
The ECB had kept inflation at 2% a year, in line with its target (below but close to 2%)—and its record in Germany had been better than that of the Bundesbank over similar stretches of time.
欧洲央行把通货膨胀保持在年均2%，达到了目标（低于2%，但又接近2%）—在相同的时间里，它在德国的记录比德国联邦银行要好。
A number of New England ski resorts now offer year-round zip line Tours in addition to their ski slopes.
这个新英格兰地区的度假村现在除了提供他们的滑雪场外还提供全年的树冠之旅。
That twist may come as a refreshing surprise to planned-obsolescence conspiracy theorists - and everyone who stood in line last year.
这个转变对那些过时的阴谋论者而言简直是一个巨大的惊喜，尽管每个人去年都是这么想的。
That twist may come as a refreshing surprise to planned-obsolescence conspiracy theorists - and everyone who stood in line last year.
这个转变对那些过时的阴谋论者而言简直是一个巨大的惊喜，尽管每个人去年都是这么想的。
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