The Mount Pintaubo eruption in 1991 released more than 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, causing a drop in temperature by half a degree Celsius for about two years.
1991年皮纳图火山爆发时释放了超过20亿多吨的二氧化硫进入大气,致使两年左右气温下降了1度半。
If the stock market drops by half, households lose 20 per cent of GDP in paper wealth, similar to the impact of a 15 per cent drop of the us market on its economy.
如果股市下跌一半,中国家庭会损失相当于GDP 20%的账面财富,与美国股市下跌15%对经济造成的影响差不多。
The French Riviera is suffering, too: Nice airport reported a drop of 8% in passengers during the first half of the year.
法国里维·埃拉的旅游业也不景气,今年上半年尼斯机场就损失了8%的游客。
The 2000 speech scored barely half the 1993 rating, a drop from 41.2 million viewers to 22.5 million.
2000年的讲话,收视率只相当于1993年的一半,从4120万下降到2250万观众。
Incidentally, if you want to eat an apple and find a worm in it (and hopefully not half a worm), you can drop it in a bowl of salt water which will kill the worm.
顺带说一下,如果你想吃苹果然后发现里边有一条虫(希望不是半条),你可以把它扔到一碗盐水里,这样可以杀掉虫子。
The risk of heart attack and stroke starts to drop immediately after a person stops using tobacco products, and can drop by as much as half after one year.
好消息是在人们停止使用烟草制品后心脏病发作和中风的危险立即开始下降,并且在一年后可下降达一半。
He suspects that unreasonable expectations are an important reason about half of all people who start a running program drop out, usually in the first six weeks.
他怀疑,不切实际的期望是开始跑步计划的人中半数退出的一个重要原因,通常是在前六周。
Half of the circles that look clickable aren't; the other half jumble into a new rotation if you drag and drop them.
有一半的圈圈看上去是可以点的,实际上却不能。如果拖拽一个圈圈,它会跳到其他圆圈中去。
However, he is troubled that much of the drop in mortality recorded is the result of changes in the figures for a mere half-dozen countries.
但是,他认为死亡率纪录的降低大部分是由于一些人口不多的国家数据变化引起的。
The RIAA blames music pirates for a 31-percent drop in the sales of compact discs (CDs) in the first half of 2003 compared with the same period in 2000.
美唱协指责音乐盗版使2003年上半年的CD销量比2000年同期下降了31%。
MySpace suffered a drop in visitor traffic last month and is now less than half the size of its younger rival, Facebook.
Myspace上月的访问量有所下降,目前不及它年轻对手Facebook的一半。
Meanwhile, James Hamilton, a University of California economist, has found that a ten-cent rise in petrol prices is associated with a half-point drop in consumer confidence.
与此同时,一位加利福尼亚大学的经济学者詹姆斯·汉密尔顿发现汽油价格上涨10美分,消费者信心将相应下降0.5个百分点。
The lead author of the paper, Pierre Friedlingstein, wrote that, "the 2009 drop in CO2 emissions is less than half that anticipated a year ago."
文章的主要作者PierreFriedlingstein写道,“2009年二氧化碳排放降低量不到一年前所预期的一半。”
Beyonce admitted following it for two weeks to drop one-and-a-half stone for the film Dreamgirls, and Jared Leto used it to shed the two stone he'd gained to play Mark Chapman in the film Chapter 27.
碧昂斯承认曾经为了出演电影《梦幻女郎》坚持用了两个星期的这种减肥法,结果减掉了21磅。杰瑞德 列托用这种方法减掉了出演《第27章》中的马克查普曼时增重的28磅。
A drop in the marriage rate has resulted in a doubling of single-parent households over the past three and a half decades.
过去35年来,结婚率的下降使单亲家庭的数量增长了一倍。
After such a downpour, the price of a catty of grain might drop half a copper, but that couldn't make up for their losses.
虽然大雨过去,一斤粮食也许落一半个铜子,可是他们的损失不是这个所能偿补的。
A drop of water was cut in half by a plane passing through its bulbous front and tapered tail.
平面将水珠的鳞茎状前锋和锥状尾巴的分成两半。
For example, in men, drinking more than half a glass a day, there's a drop in life expectancy.
举例来说,对男子来说,每天饮用量超过半玻璃杯,预期寿命就会降低。
BYD said its profit for the first half of the year could plunge by as much as 95% because of a drop in car sales.
不仅仅是比亚迪公司的汽车业务下降,其公司的其他业务也在上半年遭遇了销量跳水。
The French capital registered a 11.1 percent drop in foreign visitors in the first half of this year compared to the first half of 2008, according to the Paris Tourism Office.
据巴黎旅游办公室称,今年上半年,法国的首都巴黎接纳的外国游客同比下降11.1%。
It also said the drop in combined cigarette and fine cut tobacco volumes is partly due to a change in U. K. trade buying patterns which will shift some volumes from the first to the second half.
该公司还说,卷烟与细切烟的合并销量下降,有部分原因是英国的商业购买模式出现了变化,这个变化会使一些销量从上半年转到下半年。
It also said the drop in combined cigarette and fine cut tobacco volumes is partly due to a change in U. K. trade buying patterns which will shift some volumes from the first to the second half.
该公司还说,卷烟与细切烟的合并销量下降,有部分原因是英国的商业购买模式出现了变化,这个变化会使一些销量从上半年转到下半年。
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