But there've been times in the past when monsoon rains soaked the Empty Quarter and turned it from a desert into grassland that was dotted with lakes and home to various animals.
但过去也有过一些时候，雨季的雨水浸透了这片“空白之地”，把它从沙漠变成点缀着湖泊的草原，成为各种动物的家园。
In the first quarter oil firms drilled the same number of Wells to delineate past discoveries as they had a year before, according to Deloitte, an accounting firm.
据德勤会计师事务所的统计，第一季度石油企业按照以前发现的石油储藏而钻探的油井数量与去年持平。
Making a simple forecast based on the past few months 'data suggests that world GDP will fall from 3.8% in the first quarter to 3.3% in the second quarter.
根据过去几个月的数据，可以做出一个简单的预测：全球GDP的增速将会从第一季度的3.8%降至第二季度的3.3%。
She rode her bicycle to the streetcar depot at a quarter past four and was on the streetcar to Schwetzingen at four-thirty.
她四点一刻骑自行车去了有轨电车车库，四点半就上了开往施韦青根的有轨电车。
Spaghetti, which the Japanese love to eat with seaweed and cod's roe, has risen by over a quarter in the past year, and at the end of April hoarders cleared the nation's supermarket shelves of butter.
日本人喜欢伴着海鲜和鳕鱼籽一起吃的意大利面条去年涨价四分之一还要多，四月末囤积者把超市里的黄油抢购一空。
They have stabilised since the nadir of the fourth quarter of 2008 and the run rate is about 80% of the average over the past decade, according to Dealogic, a financial-analysis firm.
根据Dealogic -一家金融分析公司的数据，并购数量在经历08年四季度的最低点后一路企稳，目前大概是过去10年平均水平的80%。
Soaring prices now look a thing of the past: values were essentially flat in the year to the fourth quarter of 2011.
如今看来，飙升的房价已呈回落之势：2011年第三季度房价走势基本平缓。
For the past year and a half, Taiwan's export-oriented economy managed to surpass nearly all expectations, most recently marking 6.2 per cent growth in the first quarter of this year.
在过去的一年半时间里，台湾的出口导向型经济成功地超越了几乎所有预期，最近的数据是今年一季度增长6.2%。
It was to be a thoroughly modern programming language, embodying all the major advances in computer theory of the past quarter-century.
它要成为一种全新的编程语言，要体现出过去二十五年中计算机理论上的所有巨大进展。
Bill: : The past four years have shown the greatest increase in history, but this chart shows we're halfway to the deadline and only a quarter of the way to the goal.
比尔：这一数字在过去四年中增长幅度最大，但如上图所示，任务时间已经过半，但目前我们只完成了既定目标的四分之一。
The past few decades, the pomegranate tree node can be a lot of fruit in each quarter, the father will be told Hui-Zhen Li and her brothers to the alley's neighbors sent.
在过去几十年中，石榴树节点可以大量水果在每个季度，父亲会被告知李惠珍和她的兄弟胡同的邻国发出。
She gets up at seven every day. She has breakfast at a quarter past eight, and starts work at a quarter to ten. She works until half past twelve.
她每天七点起床，她八点一刻吃早饭，九点三刻开始工作，一直工作到十二点半。
I was pleased to see my XIRR ROI climb in the past quarter a full percentage point as I received fewer defaults.
我很高兴看到我的XIRRROI在上一季度攀升了一个百分点，同时违约有所减少。
Although the world is eager to fly and thirsts for oil, it has had little appetite for new nuclear power for the past quarter of a century.
尽管人类渴望飞行和石油，在过去的25里人们对于核电的需求并不是那么强烈。
She gets up at six. She has breakfast at a quarter past six and then goes to school.
她六点起床，六点一刻吃早饭，然后就上学。
She gets up at six. She has breakfast at a quarter past six and then goes to school.
她六点起床，六点一刻吃早饭，然后就上学。
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