BA, for instance, has been offering carbon offsets with its flights for the past four years, but finds that only around 3% of customers buy them.
比如英国航空公司就在过去四年里提供碳补偿项目,发现只有3%左右的顾客会购买。
Thanks to its large and rapidly rising Hispanic population, Texas is one of only four states in America where “Anglos” (non-Hispanic whites) no longer form the majority.
由于得克萨斯州西班牙裔人口急剧膨胀,它成为美国四个西班牙裔聚居的州中唯一一个“盎格鲁人”(非西班牙白人)不再占据大多数的一个州。
For the first three months for 2011, its volume is up 39%, despite a lineup of only four models, and it is nipping at the heels of slumping Lexus.
尽管只有四款车型,2011年第一季度,Verano的销量已经增加了39%,开始撵上一蹶不振的雷克萨斯(Lexus)。
The new company retains only four key brands—Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC—and intends to reduce its American workforce from 91,000 at the end of last year to 64,000 by the end of 2009.
新通用只保留四个关键品牌——雪佛兰、凯迪拉克、别克和GMC,打算今年年底前将美国员工由上一年的91000人减少到64000。
With only 133 horsepower coming from its 1.8-liter four-banger, the MG6's power won't set the world on fire either.
凭借来自1.8 L四汽缸发动机的仅仅133匹马力,MG6的功率还不足以征服世界。
Canon also deserves credit for being the only vendor among these four not to put a proprietary USB plug on its camera.
佳能还有一点值得称赞:它是这四款照相机中唯一一个无需专用US B连接口的。
Its four submarines, bought second-hand from Britain, can operate under the ice cap only for short periods.
那四艘从英国购得的二手潜水艇只能在冰盖停留一小会儿。
Prediction: Gates's 286-page book mentions the World Wide Web on only four of its pages, and portrays the Internet as a subset of a much a larger "Information Superhighway."
预言 :盖茨这本286页的书涉及到万维网的部分仅有4页,而且将互联网描述为一条更为宽广的“信息超级高速公路”的一个子集。
To make this happen, the company designs and cuts its fabric in-house and it acquires fabrics in only four colors to keep costs low.
为了实现这个,公司在组织内部设计和裁剪面料并要求面料只有4种颜色来降低成本。
The power of a programmable query construction API is limited only by the inventiveness of its user. I'll present four examples.
编程序查询构造API的威力是无穷的,但它的利用还取决于用户的创造能力。
Alarmingly, my advert was not the only one of its kind: the London edition of Gumtree had four similar ones.
令人震惊的是,我这样的广告不是唯一的:在伦敦版的Gumtree有四个类似的。
Despite being available only in America, and having been on sale just four weeks, Apple sold its millionth iPad.
尽管iPad只允许在美国销售,且刚刚销售4周,苹果公司已经卖出iPad 100万台。
Launched in early 2004, it took Facebook nearly four years to add its first 100 million users, but only five months to add its most recent batch.
Facebook自2004年年初开始运营,用了将近4年时间拥有了1亿用户,但仅仅5个月过后,这个数字达到了5亿。
In a statement regarding the recent oil spill, Chevron noted its team acted "immediately" and went to great efforts to stop the source of the seep flow "within only four days of first detection."
雪佛龙在有关最近这次漏油事故的声明中指出,“在首次发现漏油情况后的短短4天之内”,其团队就“立刻”展开行动,竭力封堵漏油源。
Only four storeys high, with long rows of windows but no hint of corporate gloss, its beige and grey box sits anonymously in the drizzly northern Pacific light.
基金会大楼只有四层高,窗户成排,却没有公司的光鲜华丽,在北太平洋朦胧的阳光映衬下,米色和灰色的格子间看起来毫不起眼。
The mind can handle seven pieces of information in its short-term memory and can generally deal with only four concepts or relationships at once.
人类大脑的短期记忆可以处理7条信息,而且一次可以大致处理4个概念或关系式。
Earth, with its four-kilometre-deep oceans, responds only slowly to changes of carbon dioxide.
拥有4千米深海洋的地球,对二氧化碳含量的变化只能作出缓慢的回应。
He was the only one of the four Grand Admirals aboard the second Death Star who did not escape its destruction.
他是四位登上第二死星的帝国元帅中唯一一个未能逃离其毁灭过程的。
The leave campaign argued during a bitter four-month referendum campaign that the only way Britain could "take back control" of its own affairs would be to leave the EU.
“脱欧派”认为在为期四个月的艰苦公投运动中英国能够“夺回其内务控制权”的唯一途径便是离开欧盟。
Let me see. Oh my god! Its price is in six figures, but I only have a four-figure income monthly.
我看看,哦,天哪!它的价格居然是六位数,可我每个月只有四位数的工资啊。
Phase one saw the completion of the four-storey building, but the finishing of only two of its floors.
第一阶段见证了四层建筑的完成,但是仅仅完成了两层。
The town of Piracicaba is currently its only customer and the two have signed a four-year, $1.1 million deal.
现在皮拉西卡巴是它的唯一顾客,并且他们双方已经签署了为期四年、价值110万美元的订单。
This reptile was distinguished from others of its kind by the fact that it had only four toes on its front feet.
这种爬虫和其它同类不同的是,它的前脚只有四个脚趾。
The space shuttle used ejector seats during its first four test flights - but only for the two pilots up front.
航天飞机在最初四次试飞阶段安装了弹射座椅,但仅仅是为前面两个驾驶员加装了这一装置。
The space shuttle used ejector seats during its first four test flights - but only for the two pilots up front.
航天飞机在最初四次试飞阶段安装了弹射座椅,但仅仅是为前面两个驾驶员加装了这一装置。
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