Lower reading achievement scores and grades in fifth grade contributed to reduced grades in middle school and thereby contributed to a 40% lower high school graduation rate.
五年级学生的阅读成绩分数较低,导致其进入中学后成绩下降,进而导致高中毕业率下降40%。
But if winds continue to pick up at the same rate, hurricanes could become far more damaging by the middle of the century.
但是假如风持续的以一个相同的速率增长的话,那么在本世纪中叶,飓风将变得更具破坏力。
Still, many experts say we don't need to raise the tax rate on the middle class; we just need to get rid of some of those despised loopholes (or beloved incentives).
尽管如此,许多专家表示我们不需要提高中产阶层的税率;我们只是要消除一些被忽视的税务漏洞(或者叫被深爱着的税务激励)。
India's inflation rate has now shrunk to a third of the more than 13-year highs in the middle of 2008 as the global economy slows and commodity prices tumble.
随着全球经济增速放缓,大宗商品价格暴跌,印度通货膨胀率目前已经回落到了2008年年中所创超过13年高点的三分之一。
Fortunately there is a very considerable amount of work in which new circumstances call for new skill and a man can go on improving, at any rate until he has reached middle age.
幸而有相当数量的工作随新的情况出现而需要新的技巧,人们可以不断提高自己的技巧,至少可以一直继续到中年以后。
The proportion of existing mines in flabby middle-age is growing as the rate of discovery of new tier-one assets has slowed over recent years.
近年来因新的“核心”资产发现率已下降,现有矿山中处于江河日下的中等年龄的比例一直在上扬。
The overall suicide rate rose 0.7% during this time, but the rate for white men aged 40 to 64 rose 2.7% and for middle-aged women 3.9% , the team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore found.
巴尔的摩约翰-霍普金斯大学的研究小组发现,美国的总体自杀率在这一期间增长了0.7%,其中,40岁至64岁白人男性的自杀率上升了2.7%,而中年白人女性的自杀率则上升了3.9%。
The move aims at ensuring millionaires pay a minimum rate of tax that at least matches that of middle-class families.
这项行动的目的在于确保百万富翁所缴的最低税率不低于中产阶级家庭。
South East Asia now has the world's second highest growth rate of smokers after the Middle East, Mr Yach said.
戴莱克-亚科说,现在东南亚是仅次于中东的世界上烟民增长速度最快的地区。
The real culprits are the strong global growth rate and turmoil in the Middle East.
真正的原因是强劲的全球经济增长和中东乱局。
In the West Bank, women make up less than 15 percent of the workforce, despite a female literacy rate of 90 percent-the highest in the Middle East and North Africa.
在约旦河西岸,女性在劳动力中所占比重不到15%,尽管其识字率高达90%且位列中东和北非地区首位。
The Middle East and Africa will have the highest compounded annual growth rate (CAGR), with a rate of 133%.
中东和非洲将拥有高达133%的最高复合年增长率(CAGR)。
Nevertheless, the report says that even by the middle of this year, the stimulus bill would have a positive effect on the unemployment rate.
尽管报告中称,今年中期刺激方案将会对失业率起到积极作用。
He argues that the interest-rate cuts that have prompted the dollar to fall have produced a surge in liquidity in fast-growing emerging markets such as China and the Middle East.
他说,降息使得美金下跌,提高的流动性进入高速增长的新兴市场,例如中国及中东地区。
In the Latin American and Caribbean region, 60 million people were lifted from poverty between 2002-2008 and a growing middle class boosted import volumes at an annual rate of 15 percent.
在2002到2008年间,拉丁美洲和加勒比地区有2000万人脱贫,不断壮大的中产阶级推动进口贸易额每年的增长达到15%。
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。
When middle-class incomes barely grow while the incomes of the wealthiest rise by a factor of six, how could the tax share of the rich not go up, even if their tax rate is falling?
中产阶级收入几乎没有增长,而富人的收入却增长了6倍,即使他们的税率下下降,他们交纳的税占总税额的份额怎么能会不升高?
Asked to rate their personal position on a ten-point scale of satisfaction, middle-class respondents are far more likely to put themselves near the top than are poor ones.
当被要求以10分制满意度表示个人立场时,中产阶级收访者远比穷人愿意给出近10分满意度的人。
Women who apply for jobs in middle or senior management have a higher success rate than men, according to an employment survey.
女人比男人在申请中级或是高级的管理职位时有较高的成功比率,根据一个雇用调查。
Fuelled by soaring populations and rapid industrialisation, new cities in China, India and the Middle East grew at a phenomenal rate.
由于飙升的人口和快速的工业化,中国、印度和中东地区的新城市以惊人的速度增长。
While economic growth is likely to resume from the middle of this year, the actual rate of growth will be subdued, perhaps at only half the pace of the previous cycle.
尽管经济增长是有可能从今年年中开始恢复,然而实际增长率将有所阻滞,也许只有之前的周期速度的一半。
High insect density, high attacked trees rate, middle crowded degree.
第类,高虫口密度、高被害株率、中拥挤度。
The children of the wealthy and the upper middle class are prepared for their futures in private schools or first-rate public systems in wealthy suburbs.
富人和上层中产阶级的孩子在私立学校或是一流的富裕郊外的公共系统中筹备他们的未来。
Severe pneumococcal pneumonia still occurs, even in young to middle aged persons (not just the very young and the very old) and has a mortality rate of 20%!
严重肺炎球菌性肺炎仍然发生,甚至在青年到中年人中(并非小儿和老年人)发生,死亡率为20%。
The rising per capita income, high savings rate and the increasing affluence of an expanding, young, educated middle class will continue to drive domestic consumption.
人均收入的增加、高储蓄率,以及日趋庞大且接受过良好教育的年轻一代中产阶级,一直是推动国内消费的主要动力。
The rate of attrition in the middle ranks has slowed a bit in recent years, but the most senior jobs remain almost exclusively male.
近几年女性在中层职位的淘汰率稍微减缓,但是大多数高层职位仍然仅限于男性。
The rate of attrition in the middle ranks has slowed a bit in recent years, but the most senior jobs remain almost exclusively male.
近几年女性在中层职位的淘汰率稍微减缓,但是大多数高层职位仍然仅限于男性。
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