Those who began smoking within a month of the study's start were four times as likely to be depressed at the study's end than those who did not begin smoking.
那些在研究开始后一个月内就开始吸烟的人在研究结束时抑郁的可能性是那些没有开始吸烟的人的四倍。
Despite the ease with which the rich can acquire almost anything they desire, they are just as likely to be unhappy as the middle classes.
尽管富人几乎可以轻松地获得他们想要的任何东西，但他们也可能和中产阶级一样不快乐。
Blue-collar workers are twice as likely to be fired as white-collar employees.
蓝领工人被解雇的几率是白领员工的两倍。
They were twice as likely to be described in news reports as "optimistic" or "confident."
1美元年薪的CEO被新闻报道称为“乐观”和“自信”的几率也是一般上市公司CEO的两倍。
In this business, deals are as likely to be struck on the dance floor as in the boardroom.
在该行业中，舞室内达成交易的几率和会议室不相上下。
Boys are twice as likely to get suspended as girls, and three times as likely to be expelled.
男孩被停学的可能性是女孩的两倍，被开除的可能性是女孩的三倍。
An older user is as likely to be suspicious of information found on the Internet as to believe it.
一个年长的用户，怀疑与相信在互联网上找到的资料程度是一样的。
Those who had been exposed to high levels of pesticides were 1.41 times as likely to be affected.
而那些暴露于高水平杀虫剂的病人患病的可能是阴性对照的1.41倍。
Advisers, subordinates, spouses and friends are simply not as likely to be as engaged - or as honest.
顾问、下属、配偶和朋友，都不会同样地用心——或诚实。
Winds are just as likely to be gusty at sea as on land, and just as likely to change direction as not.
海上的风完全可能象陆上的风一样具有阵性，且它在两地改变方向同样频繁。
Russians and Poles are these days almost as likely to be found downing bottles of beer as shots of vodka.
现在俄罗斯人和波兰人很可能会像喝伏特加一样一口气把数瓶啤酒喝光。
In fact, his immortal “Suzanne” is just as likely to be found in poetry classrooms as it is in record shops.
事实上，他不朽的歌曲“苏珊”（Suzanne）在诗歌教室里被发现的可能性与在唱片店里差不多。
Today, astronauts are just as likely to be mild-mannered, nerdy and aging — and possibly balding and paunchy.
今天，宇航员很有可能脾气温和、形容普通，年龄较大-----可能头顶光光、大腹便便。
Today, a compost pile is just as likely to be associated with a suburban backyard as it is with an organic farm.
如今，一个郊区后院，正像它可能带有一个机农场一样，很可能带着一个堆肥堆子。
College graduates are 16 times as likely to be Internet surfers at home as are those with only elementary? School education.
大学毕业的人与只受过小学教育的人相比在家上网数相差16倍。
Put another way, we more than doubled the chance that it would happen, and it’s twice as likely to be human-caused than natural.
换个角度说，是我们导致这起极端天气事件发生概率提高了一倍之多，而且我们制造这起事件的可能性是自然因素引起的两倍。
These are then given scores according to what is seen as likely to be the company's business environment over the next few years.
这些都有可能在之后的几年里有利于公司的商业环境，从而为公司加分。
Among young drivers, young males under the age of 25 years are almost 3 times as likely to be killed in a car crash as young females.
在年轻驾驶员中，25岁以下的年轻男性在汽车碰撞中死亡的可能性几乎是年轻女性的三倍。
You may lose a few $50 deposits but you aren’t as likely to be left hanging with no options when child is born which is what happened to me.
你可能会花费50美元的定金，但当你的孩子降生之后你也不会漫无目的的寻找了，就像我以前那样。
Black people get cancer slightly more often than whites (despite smoking the same amount), and are more than twice as likely to be shot dead.
黑人患癌症的几率也略高于白人(即使吸烟量相同)，黑人受枪击死亡的概率是白人的两倍多。
They found those who have less than ten hours' sleep were twice as likely to be overweight five years later, with some even clinically obese.
他们发现，五年后，那些每天睡眠不足10个小时的儿童发胖的几率是睡眠充足的儿童的两倍，其中还有一些儿童已经患上临床性肥胖症。
They were also twice as likely to be successful as participants who reported the highest stress levels and got six or less hours sleep a night.
同样也有人称跟一些参与者一样，承受着巨大的压力，每晚睡6或少于6小时，也有两倍的减肥成功机会。
'It's just as likely to be someone local, someone who knew he was there. If they were poachers they perhaps knew the landowners were on holiday.'
同样可能的是当地人，知道它就在那儿的当地人。如果是偷猎者，他们可能知道这片土地的主人当时在度假。
In fact, none of these results are statistically significant, i.e., they're just as likely to be caused by chance as by real differences in the treatments.
事实上，这些结果没有一个在统计上是显著的，也就是说它们由偶然导致或由处理水平间真正差异导致的可能性相等。
Interestingly enough, the happy halo that shines over married couples isn't the result of having kids — those with children were just as likely to be happy as those without.
十分成有趣的是，萦绕在已婚夫妇身上的幸福光环并不是是拥有孩子带来的结果——有孩子的夫妇可能与没有孩子的夫妇一样幸福。
Mass-market retailing has changed the publishing industry: these days books are as likely to be found beside steaks and saucepans as they are to be bought in specialist stores.
图书市场零售业改变了自己的出版业策略：现如今，人们在牛排、炖锅旁找到售书点的概率就如在专门店买到书的概率一样小。
A study last year by the OECD, a rich-country think-tank, found that British youngsters with poor skills were five times as likely to be unemployed as their high-skilled peers.
去年经济合作与发展组织，这一富裕国智囊团研究发现，英国缺少技能的年轻人，比起他们掌握高技能的同龄人，失业率多了5倍。
A study last year by the OECD, a rich-country think-tank, found that British youngsters with poor skills were five times as likely to be unemployed as their high-skilled peers.
去年经济合作与发展组织，这一富裕国智囊团研究发现，英国缺少技能的年轻人，比起他们掌握高技能的同龄人，失业率多了5倍。
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