A quarter of 4-year-olds frequently wet the bed.
4岁的孩子中有1/4经常性尿床。
More than a quarter of seven-year-olds cannot add properly.
超过1/4的7岁儿童不会正确地做加法。
It has consequences: South Africa's ongoing drought—the worst in three decades—will cost at least a quarter of its corn crop this year.
它的后果是：南非持续的干旱——三十年来最严重的干旱——将导致它今年至少四分之一的玉米作物受损。
All that 15.4 million working days were lost to work related stress last year, a jump of nearly a quarter.
去年那1540万个工作日由于工作相关的压力全损失了，减少了近四分之一。
That target suspended during the financial crisis, but in the second quarter of this year, the company came within a whisker of achieving it.
这个目标在金融危机期间暂停搁置，但在今年第二季度，该公司差一点就实现这一目标。
It produces nearly a quarter of the world's greenhouse gases each year and has stubbornly made it clear that it doesn't intend to do a whole lot about it.
它每年产生全球近四分之一的温室气体，并顽固地表明它不打算为此做什么。
Every year, if people used just a quarter of that wasted food, the world hunger would end.
每年，如果人们只使用四分之一的被浪费的食物，世界饥饿问题就会结束。
With its decidedly undecimal sidereal year of 365-and-a-quarter days, that is just not going to happen.
这种事不会发生，因为“恒星年（由365又1/4天所组成）是十一进制的”这一事实是确凿无疑的。
But a new survey of marketers across Asia has found that the majority expect their AD budgets to shrink next year, with a quarter expecting a decline of more than 20% from this year.
但对亚洲广告客户的一项最新调查发现，大多数企业预计他们的广告预算明年将会下降，其中四分之一预计将比今年下降20%以上。
That's down from the 5.6% performance in the fourth quarter of last year, but constitutes a good showing by developed nation standards.
虽则与去年第四季度增长5.6%的表现相比，增幅有所下跌，但按发达国家标准来讲也算表现良好。
And even that rebound (in 2005) was followed by a temporary slowdown in the second quarter of last year.
而即使是那次反弹(2005年)，也是随后紧接着就是去年第二季度的一次短暂放缓。
The IMF has compared house prices in the first quarter of this year with their level a year ago in 52 rich and emerging housing markets.
国际货币基金组织对52个富裕国的房市和新兴房市在本年第一季度的价格与去年同期做了比较。
American raw domestic steel production is down 47% year on year; railway traffic in May was almost a quarter below its level of a year earlier.
美国国内未加工钢铁产量较去年下降47%；五月铁路交通运输量几乎比一年前水平下降四分之一。
I think it means the rate of decline in the economy, which during late last year and the first quarter of this year was like a free-fall, is definitely slowing down.
我认为，这表示，经过去年年底和今年第一季度自由落体式的经济下滑后，现在经济衰退的速度绝对是放慢了。
A quarter of a million children could die next year due to the effects of climate change, Save the children warned today.
“拯救儿童”今天警告说，由于气候变化的影响，明年可能会死亡二十五万名儿童。
In fact, emissions are going in the wrong direction as well, up 1.2% in the first quarter of this year, a reversal of another trend.
事实上，二氧化碳排放也正朝着错误的方向前进，今年第一季度上升了1.2%，扭转了另一股趋势。
He expects to get only about a quarter of his typical harvest this year.
他预计今年他只能收获往年四分之一的量。
After successive years of improvement, the first quarter of this year saw a big reversal, with energy intensity increasing by 3.2%.
在连续几年实现改善后，今年的第一季度出现重大倒退，能源消耗提高了3.2%。
The negative quarter followed a year of mostly-anemic growth, and, while the fourth quarter has yet to be completed, economists believe it, too, will show significant contraction.
在此之前，美国经济增长已经持续疲软了一年。 今年第四季度虽然尚未结束，但是经济学家相信，美国经济在今年最后三个月也将是大幅度收缩。
Latvia became the worst-performing economy in the European Union when it announced a fall in GDP in the fourth quarter of 2008 of 10.5% over a year earlier.
拉脱维亚宣布在前一年中，2008年第四季度的GDP负增长10.5%，成为欧盟成员国中经济表现最差的国家。
The ABX index, whichrepresents a basket of credit swaps on bonds tied to high-risk mortgages, fellmore than a quarter in the first three months of the year.
ABX指数，衡量的是那些互换对象为与高风险抵押贷款证券紧密相联的债券的金融互换，在今年的前三个月跌去了超过四分之一。 （译者注：这句子翻译的哦。。。
The company's 1.6% share of personal computers in the second quarter of this year marks a steady rise from the 1.1% share in the first quarter of 2007.
该公司今年第二季度个人电脑市场份额达到1.6%，较2007年第一季度1.1%的份额稳定上升。
Output grew by 5.3% in the fourth quarter of 2008, compared with the same quarter a year ago, its slowest pace for four years. The figure was well below expectations.
2008年第四季度产出同比增长了5.3%，创下四年内的新低，这个数据是低于预期。
Despite these steps prices in the island nation rose by nearly 40% in the year to the end of the second quarter, after a rise of just over 25% in the year to the end of the first quarter.
尽管出台了这些措施，该国房价继第一季度增长了25%之后，第二季度又增长了近40%。
The GDP of the 15 countries in the euro zone fell by 1.5% in the final quarter of 2008 compared with a year earlier, according to the European Union’s statistics office.
据欧盟统计处统计，同一年前相比2008年最后一季度欧元区15国GDP下降15%。
I've been on two real dates in my life, both of them in my freshman year of college, nearly a quarter century ago.
在我的生活中有过两次真实的约会，两次都是在我的大学一年级，那是差不多25年以前。
Some 5m Indians die of cardiovascular diseases every year, more than a quarter of them under 65.
每年有500万印度人死于心血管疾病，而且这些人中超过四分之一低于65岁。
Some 5m Indians die of cardiovascular diseases every year, more than a quarter of them under 65.
每年有500万印度人死于心血管疾病，而且这些人中超过四分之一低于65岁。
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