In order to reduce the amount of residue ash Shelbyville generates this year to half of last year's total, the city has revamped its collection program.
为了将谢尔比维尔今年产生的灰渣数量减少到去年总量的一半，该市已经修改了其收集计划。
This means the northern and southern hemispheres will sometimes point toward or away from the sun depending on the time of year, varying the amount of light they receive and causing the seasons.
这意味着南半球和北半球会在一年的不同时间段朝向太阳或背向太阳，引起接受的光照量的变化和并产生季节变化。
“It’s a very strange thing for us to see that amount of influenza at this time of year, ” said Dr. Daniel B. Jernigan, deputy director of the agency’s flu division.
这个机构的流感司副司长DanielB. Jernigan博士说：“今年这个时候看到的流感数量，对我们来说是非常奇怪的事情。”
And the huge amount of Japanese debt rolling over this year need not be a problem.
今年日本必须要重新发行的巨额公债不一定会是问题。
Quality and amount of sleep have a big effect on the grades of teenagers and college students, according to two studies reported in Time magazine earlier this year.
《时代》杂志今年早些时候公布的两项研究显示，睡觉质量和时间对青少年和大学生的学习成绩有着重要影响。
From this year, it has abolished an ancient tax levied on peasants according to the amount of land they hold.
今年，废除了加在他们身上由来已久的、按照他们所占土地份额而需缴纳的农业税。
I talked about this balancing process last year, asking developers to balance the amount of work required to support a browser with the raw number of users that the browser provides.
我去年讨论过这个平衡策略，要求开发人员根据每种浏览器的用户数量，去平衡支持它所需的工作量。在最近为雅虎所做的一次演讲中，我也讨论过这个策略。
Earlier the operator of the bourse, which lies behind only new York this year in the amount of money raised from new listings, posted a 19% rise in quarterly profit.
早些时候，该所在上市公司方面的利润仅落后于纽约证交所，港交所的经营者曾公布本季度利润(环比)增长19%。
This year the increase in China's net exports (ie, less imports) is likely to account for about one quarter of its growth—a record amount.
今年中国的净出口增长（即减去进口额）有望创下历史纪录，占到经济增长的四分之一。
I have had a small harvest this year so devised a recipe requiring a relatively small amount of fruit.
今年我略有收获，所以我准备了一个只需要很少水果的食谱。
Budget deficits are expected to amount to 6.4% of euro-area GDP this year, rising to 6.9% in 2010.
财政预算赤字预计将达到欧元区GDP的6.4%，2010年将达到6.9%。
Nor does this figure include the effect of fire on dried-up bogs. That can double the amount of CO2 released in a year, in those places it affects.
上述数据还不包括燃烧干涸湿地的二氧化碳排放，如果再加上这一数据，在那些受到影响的地方，二氧化碳的年排放量将翻倍。
Even with the surge in bookings, though, the overall amount of business the company has on its books for the second of half of 2009 remains three percentage points lower than this time a year ago.
尽管下半年的预订也大幅增长，但2009年下半年的整体业务预订量与去年同期相比，还是要低3个百分点。
A study published earlier this year in the Journal of Food Protection found that natural hot dogs had anywhere from one-half to 10 times the amount of nitrite that conventional hot dogs contained.
在今年早些时候在食物保护杂志上刊登的一篇研究指出半个天然热狗中所含的亚硝酸盐是一整条传统热狗中所含亚硝酸盐的十倍。
The state controls most of the banking system, and has used this control to double the amount of bank lending in the first half of this year, as compared to 2008.
国家几乎控制了所有的银行系统，借此使银行贷款在今年上半年比起去年翻了一番。
Morgan Stanley forecasts that the amount of cash in European makers’ manufacturing operations will decline by euro 34 billion this year.
MorganStanley预测今年欧洲制造商的生产业务资金总额将会下滑340亿欧元。
The MSCI world index of global share prices is up by almost 24% so far this year, having fallen by a similar amount between January 1st and March 6th.
反映全球股票价格的MSCI世界指数今年以来已经上升了约24%，该指数在1月1日至3月6日间下跌了相似的幅度。
In other words, if I'm a rich, wealthy person in Corinth, I would say, "I'll be the local tax collector, and I'll guarantee you I'll send to Rome this amount of money for a year."
换句话说，如果我是科林斯的富人，我会说，“我想当本地税吏，我保证每年向罗马缴纳多少多少钱。”
The actual amount of such loans could be 2-3 trillion yuan this year, making the real lending figure far higher than the target.
本年这种贷款的实际金额应该在2到3万亿之间，以至于真正的贷款金额比预期目标高很多。
The sun's activity waxes and wanes on an 11-year cycle, and over this cycle the amount of ultraviolet light the sun emits changes a lot more than does the total amount of energy.
太阳活动的盛衰以11年为一个周期，在一个周期内，太阳放射的紫外线的变化幅度要比其放射的能量的变化幅度要大得多。
What new name will emerge from 2016? Don't be surprised if a good amount of parents watching Stranger Things this year decide to name their baby girls Eleven.
自2016年，会出现什么新名字呢？如果许多父母今年看了《怪物奇语》，那么他们决定给自己的宝贝女儿起名为伊莱文(十一)就没什么好惊讶的了。
So far this year the number of Chinese companies that have completed IPOs in the US stands at 15, the same amount at this point in 2007.
迄今为止，今年在美国上市的中国公司一共有15家，和2007年同期水平相当。
We must tighten control over the amount of land used for development projects, especially for industrial purposes, and hold the total amount of land used this year to last year's level.
从严控制新增建设用地特别是工业用地，今年土地利用计划总规模控制在去年水平。
The fans deserve it given the amount of miles they've covered and the number of away ends they've packed out this year.
球迷们应该得到它提供的金额和覆盖距离他们已经走了数完，他们已经挤满了这一年。
The gold mining sector is braced for asset writedowns and a fall in the amount of reserves in the ground after the precipitous drop in the price of the metal this year.
随着黄金价格在今年暴跌，金矿开采行业将迎来资产减记和储量下滑。
China told Banks Thursday to increase their reserves for the third time this year, cutting the amount of money available for lending in a new effort to cool an investment boom.
本周四，中国的银行再次提高准备金率，这已经是今年的第三次提高准备金率了，这次的目的仍然是通过减少可贷资金的数量来抑制投资热。
Economists expect similar reserve increases once every quarter this year to compensate for the swelling amount of money in the banking system amid multibillion-dollar export surpluses.
经济学家们期望每个季度准备金率都会以这个相同的数量增长，这样就可以补偿银行系统和百亿出口盈余的大量积累下来的货币数量。
Economists expect similar reserve increases once every quarter this year to compensate for the swelling amount of money in the banking system amid multibillion-dollar export surpluses.
经济学家们期望每个季度准备金率都会以这个相同的数量增长，这样就可以补偿银行系统和百亿出口盈余的大量积累下来的货币数量。
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