Today, 28 per cent of graduates in the UK are in non-graduate roles, a percentage which is double the average among the OECD countries.
如今,英国28%的本科毕业生在从事无需本科学历的工作,这一数字是经合组织成员国平均水平的两倍。
At its peak in 2007 it was worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics, a research firm—double the figure five years earlier.
ArtsEconomics研究公司的创始人克莱尔·麦克安德鲁估算,在2007年的巅峰期,它的价值约为650亿美元,是五年前的两倍。
One Gallup poll found that 20 percent of Americans, who have been unemployed for at least a year report having depression, double the rate for working Americans.
一项盖洛普民意调查发现:在失业至少一年的美国人中,有20%的人都存在抑郁的情况,这一比率是在职美国人的两倍。
Another experiment demonstrated that physical exercise, which was sufficiently vigorous to double the rate of breathing, had no effect on the frequency of yawning.
另一项实验表明,体育运动——尤其是剧烈的运动——可以使呼吸频率增加一倍,但这对打哈欠的频率没有影响。
The offer was to start a new research laboratory at double the salary he was then getting.
提议当时是他创办一个新实验室拿双倍工资。
Next year, I might even double the amount of time I spend fasting.
明年,我甚至可能把我禁食的时间增加一倍。
Today, China is the world's largest automobile producer, with more than double the capacity of the United States.
如今,中国是世界上最大的汽车生产国,生产能力是美国的两倍多。
If I win the game, I'd like one grain of rice for the first square of the chessboard, two for the second, four for the third, and then double the amount for each of the rest of the squares.
如果我赢了,我想在棋盘的第一个方格里放一粒米,在第二个方格里放两粒米,在第三个方格里放四粒米,然后在剩下的方格里依次放两倍的米。
Over the past decade, prices leaped by more than double the inflation rate.
在过去的十年里,物价的上涨速度是通货膨胀率的两倍多。
Separate the eggs, beat the yolks and sugar in a mixer until pale to double the size.
把鸡蛋分开,把蛋黄和糖放在搅拌机里打至颜色发白,搅拌至原来两倍体积。
Plus, when it comes to practising our musical instruments, I have to practise more than double the time.
另外,练习乐器的时候,我要练习两倍以上的时间。
Over the past century, human use of fresh water has increased at more than double the rate of population growth.
在过去的一个世纪里,人类对淡水的使用以超过人口增长率两倍的速度增长。
In the US, studies have shown that doubling the size of a road can simply double the traffic, taking us back to the starting point.
研究表明,在美国,将道路的规模扩大一倍,只会使交通量增加一倍,这样我们又回到了事情的起点。
Lightbox, Inc., owns almost all of the movie theaters in Washington County and has announced plans to double the number of movie screens it has in the county within five years.
Lightbox公司几乎拥有华盛顿县所有的电影院,并宣布计划在五年内将该州的电影院数量增加一倍。
In 2015, the US Forest Service for the first time spent more than half of its $5.5 billion annual budget fighting fires—nearly double the percentage it spent on such efforts 20 years ago.
2015年,美国林务局首次使用55亿美元年度预算的一半以上用于灭火——这几乎是20年前火灾支出所占比例的两倍。
"You should pay me double the tuition fees," said Socrates.
“你应该付给我两倍的学费,”苏格拉底说。
After all, HP makes nearly double the revenue that Apple does each quarter.
毕竟,每个季度惠普挣到了几乎是苹果两倍的收入。
And while it's been cool, it's also exhausting because it's double the work.
当然这很酷,同时也很累因为等于是有两倍的工作量。
Or even producing double the amount of work you do now in the same amount of time.
或者说,甚至在同样时间内完成你现在所做工作的双倍工作量。
It packs double the fibre, which helps the body process fats more efficiently.
它富含双倍的纤维素,能够帮助机体更有效地消耗脂肪。
They also want to almost double the tonnage of ships the port currently handles.
他们还希望把这个港口目前的船只吞吐量吨位提高一倍。
XML messages in text format could more than double the amount of bandwidth of binary data.
文本格式的XML消息可能是二进制数据带宽量的两倍之多。
Some 237 aid vehicles have also been hijacked this year, already double the number for 2007.
同时今年有大约237辆救援车辆被劫持,已经是2007年的这一数字的一倍。
Retail numbers are hazy, but IDPF suggests that it would be about double the wholesale number.
零售数据是模糊的,但是国际数字出版论坛认为零售市场是批发市场的两倍。
Farmers who planted fertilizer trees reported double the maize production of other farmers.
种植肥料树的农民的玉米产品比其他农民高出一倍。
During economic crises her first instinct has been to double the guard around the German Treasury.
在经济危机中,她的第一直觉是为德国财政上双重保险。
America aims to double the production of energy from renewable sources in the next three years.
在未来三年内,美国意图能从可再生资源中得到双倍的能源产量。
The procedure accounted for 13 per cent of operations last year, double the number seen previously.
去年,进行抽脂术的人增加了13%,增加幅度是前一年的两倍。
The procedure accounted for 13 per cent of operations last year, double the number seen previously.
去年,进行抽脂术的人增加了13%,增加幅度是前一年的两倍。
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