The number 13 has long been considered unlucky by superstitious people around the globe. How fitting, then, that Bill Gates' reign as the world's richest person ends after his 13th year at the top.
很久以来，人们将13视为一个不吉利的数字，巧合的是，曾连续13年占据全球富豪榜首席的比尔·盖茨，今年也从从世界首富的宝座上滑落下来。
The latest Home Office estimate for the number of innocent people on the DNA database is 980, 000 according to the crime and security bill regulatory impact assessment published last Friday.
按照上周五公布的犯罪和安全法案管理影响评估的说法，内政厅对DNA数据库内无辜人数的最新估计值为980 000人。
Their bill would limit greenhouse gases by requiring polluters to receive or buy emission permits, with the number of available permits - the "cap" in "cap and trade" - gradually falling over time.
他们的提案要求那些温室气体的排放者接受或购买排放许可，可获得的许可的数量将会渐渐减少，以此来限制温室气体。这就是“总量管制与交易制度”的“管制”那一环。
The container number is listed in the bill of lading.
集装箱编号是列在提货单里的。
The building was so big that the heating bill alone ate up a lot of the budget, and the growing number of elderly patients put it under increasing strain.
堂皇的医院大楼耗能惊人，仅仅是供暖的账单都已经用掉大部分预算资金，再加上不断增加的老年病患入院就医，更是火上浇油。
According to various studies, defensive medicine adds perhaps 2 percent to the overall bill—a not-insignificant number when more than $2 trillion is at stake.
各种研究表明，被动医疗总计起来大概占总费用的2%——当2万亿美元濒临危险时，这不是个无足轻重的数目。
At one point, Mr. Jobs was asked by the Microsoft founder Bill Gates to give a majority of his wealth to philanthropy alongside a number of prominent executives like Mr. Gates and Warren E. Buffett.
有一次，微软创始人比尔盖茨劝说乔布斯把他的大部分财富捐善事业，像很多杰出的高管一样，如盖茨先生和沃伦巴菲特。
'the global credit crunch has seen the number of international Banks lending to the power and water sector decline,' said Medley energy director Bill Farren-Price.
Medley能源主管普赖斯(Bill Farren - Price)表示，全球信贷危机已经使得能为电力和水力项目提供贷款的跨国银行数量减少。
Solo entrepreneurs in particular must be versatile and play a number of roles, from chief salesperson and bookkeeper to head marketer and bill collector.
尤其是单打独斗的创业者必须是多面手，发挥多种作用，从销售、会计，到市场营销、收款，他要无所不能。
The bill extended regulation in a number of ways: consumer protection, higher capital standards for major institutions, greater transparency for complex financial instruments.
法案以多种方式扩大了监管，诸如消费者保护；提供主要机构的资金标准；要求复杂金融工具提高透明度。
Fortunately, we have a number of existing heat sources already in our homes-and by harvesting some of the heat from these unusual places-you can actually lower your total home heating bill.
幸运的是，我们在家中有很多已经固有的加热源，而且通过这些来自不同地方寻常地方而获得的热量——你真的能在这里节省整个家庭的取暖费用。
Bill Shine, the number two at Fox News, thinks these two characteristics are related.
福克斯新闻的节目编导组长比尔•夏因认为这两个特点是彼此相关的。
The number of people using these methods to minimise their tax bill is burgeoning.
使用这些方法来进行大幅避税的人正与日俱增。
In the world that Bill Masen confronts, there are a number of different models for how to build society in the aftermath of the disaster.
在比尔梅森的故事中，有着一系列各种各样的在灾后废墟中重建社会的模型。
So this time, if you send me an appropriations bill that does not cut the number and cost of earmarks in half, I will send it back to you with my veto.
因此，这一次，如果你们送给我一份未能将专项拨款的数目和金额减少一半的拨款法案，我就会否决它，把它退还给你们。
Bill Foulkes holds the third highest number of appearances for the club at 683.
比尔·福克斯有着球队历史上第三高的俱乐部出场纪录，他为曼联出征683场比赛。
The Federal Trade Commission said that last year it received some 70, 000 consumer complaints about bill collectors, about double the number of five years ago.
联邦贸易委员会(Federal Trade Commission)说，去年它收到70,000起针对催收公司的投诉，这个数字几乎是5年前的两倍。
Humanity's greatest accomplishment of the past five decades, declared Bill Gates this week, is the reduction in the number of deaths among young children by half, to 10m a year in 2007.
本周，比尔·盖茨宣布，2007年全球儿童死亡人数为1000万人，较半个世纪前减少了一半，这不愧为人类在过去50年当中所取得的最伟大的成就。
They type in the license plate number of returning cars, and their portable, which has a built-in printer, calls the main computer, gets the rental information, and prints out the bill on the spot.
机场工作人员输入运送汽车的拍照号码，随后，带有内置打印机的移动计算机会呼叫主机，获取汽车的租赁信息，然后当场打印出帐单。
With the comparison between the provisional sums in FIDIC and the other item bill, this paper sets up a number of recommendations.
结合FIDIC中的暂定金额进行对比，对其他项目清单的设置提出了一些建议。
Bill is a thirty-five-year-old father whose friends are concerned about the large number of cigarettes he smokes each day.
比尔是一个三十五岁的父亲，他的朋友正为他每天抽掉大量香烟而担忧。
The main reason for the impasse up to this point was a disagreement about the number of amendments that would be debated during consideration of the farm bill.
此前导致僵局的主要原因在于，围绕农业法案审议期间需要讨论的修订数量存在分歧。
The function, design, and performance index of the system are described, and the techniques of non-contact IC card, OCR of passport number, bill printing and cash acceptor are mainly discussed.
介绍了系统的功能、硬件设计、软件设计和性能指标，重点分析了非接触式ic卡、证件号码光学字符识别(ocr)、票据打印及分时传送和纸币接收器等关键技术的实现。
HUMANITY's greatest accomplishment of the past five decades, declared Bill Gates this week, is the reduction in the number of deaths among young children by half, to 10m a year in 2007.
本周比尔·盖茨表示，人类在过去五十年里的最大成就是儿童死亡人数的减少，2007年儿童死亡人数是一千万，比五十年前减少了一半。
Is gate guard or shipping personnel verifying the seal number against the bill of lading on containers when they leave the gate or premises?
当货柜离厂时，保安或船务人员有没有对照提货单核对封条的号码。
The researchers examined the relationship between the size of tips in restaurants and the number of meals charged on the bill.
研究人员们分析了饭馆里小费的数额与餐费之间的关系。
The researchers examined the relationship between the size of tips in restaurants and the number of meals charged on the bill.
研究人员们分析了饭馆里小费的数额与餐费之间的关系。
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