It accounts for the bulk of Apple's revenues and profits; sales were 18% lower than a year ago.
它是苹果公司财政收入及利润的主要来源，销售额与去年同期相比降低了18%。
In the quarter ending in August its revenues were 10% lower than a year before, at $4.2 billion.
8月份季度总结时，它的总收益比去年减少了10%，为42亿美元。
Retail sales fell again in March, the fourth drop in the past six months, leaving them 1.6% lower than a year earlier.
三月份的零售业销售量再度下降，这已是过去6个月以来的第四次下降，使得它们相对于1年前降低了1.6%。
This report lists the source files whose percentage of line coverage are lower than a specified minimum threshold level.
该报告列出了哪一个源文件的代码行覆盖率百分比，低于特定的最低阀值水平。
Basically, passengers on board will feel like they are at an altitude of 6, 000 feet, 2, 000 feet lower than a standard flight.
基本上，旅客会感觉他们在6000英尺的高空，该高度比标准飞行高度低2000英尺。
Most striking is the plunge in copper imports - 13 per cent lower than a year ago in dollar terms and 20 per cent lower in volume.
最明显的是铜进口的下跌- - -美元价值比一年前低13%，数量比前一年低20%。
Steep declines in most of the second half of 2008 mean that the American index is still more than 20% lower than a year earlier.
2008年下半年就业指数的急剧下跌意味着美国的指数比一年前的要低20%还多。
So even though house prices in America were still roughly 18% lower than a year earlier, many now suspect that the worst is over.
因此，尽管美国的房价依然较一年前低了18%，很多人怀疑最坏的时候已经过去了。
Output in most of the smaller Asian economies is still lower than a year ago, because they suffered steep downturns late last year.
多部分亚洲小的经济体的增长率比仍然低于去年，因为它们去年经历了严重的经济衰退。
Mortgage lending is still profitable, yet in June it was 3% lower than a year earlier, while net consumer borrowing fell for a second month.
按揭贷款仍然是有利可图的，然而6月比去年同期下降3%，并且净消费贷款连续两个月下滑。
For instance, Japan's vehicle production in the first two months of 2009 was 50% lower than a year before, but global car sales fell by only 25%.
例如，日本的车辆生产在2009年头两个月就比一年前下降50%，但是全球汽车销售只下降了25%。
For instance, Japan’s vehicle production in the first two months of 2009 was 50% lower than a year before, but global car sales fell by only 25%.
例如，日本的车辆生产在2009年头两个月就比一年前下降50%，但是全球汽车销售只下降了25%。
Some 180,000 new jobs were created in March and the unemployment rate fell to 4.4%, three-tenths of a percentage point lower than a year ago.
三月份新增180，000个就业岗位，失业率降至4.4％，低于去年同期水平0.3个百分点。
It was not clear to me how I’d arrived at this juncture gradewise, because before entering Ault, I’d never received lower than a B plus in any class.
我不明白自己在成绩上怎么沦落到如此田地，进奥尔特之前，任何功课我的分数都不低于B+。
The Case-Shiller index may have risen in May but it remained 17.1% lower than a year earlier, when prices had already been falling for almost a year.
更不用提达到峰值了五月份，Case - shiller指数也许已经上升，但是同一年前相比，仍然低17.1个百分点。在近一年的时间里，价格不断下跌。
The agreement, which has yet to be ratified by the Senate, would allow a maximum of 1,550 deployed warheads, about 30 percent lower than a limit set in 2002.
该协议对部署核弹头设定的最高限额为1550枚，与2002年相比降低了百分之三十左右，不过它尚未得到参议院的最终批准。
First-half profits at the division were almost 30 per cent lower than a year before as revenue slipped at its core fixed income, currency and commodities division.
由于其核心的固定收益、外汇和大宗商品部门收入下滑，该部门上半年利润比去年同期下降了近30%。
It can also hear sound frequencies across a span of 17 octaves, spanning pitches far higher than the whine of a mosquito and far lower than a rumbling foghorn.
该设备还能收听跨越17个八度音阶的声频，其音调范围远高于蚊子的蜂鸣，而远低于低沉的雾角。
Britain's industrial production was 5.8% lower in the three months to February 2009 than it had been in the previous three months, and 12.5% lower than a year earlier.
到2月份为止的三个月中，2009年英国工业产量比前三个月少5.8%，比去年同期少12.5%。
Somewhat surprisingly, there was a modest slowdown in 2014, with investment in the first half lower than a year earlier, largely due to a fall in spending on energy projects.
有点令人惊讶的是，中国2014年投资额缓慢减小，上半年的投资额比上一年少，这主要是由于能源项目上的花费减小了。
In June, the latest month for which data are available, German exports leapt by 7 per cent compared with the previous month. Nevertheless they were still 22.3 per cent lower than a year before.
今年6月(数据可得的最近月份)，德国出口较前一个月环比大幅增长7%，但同比跌幅仍达到22.3%。
The latest Case-Shiller indices, released on June 30th, showed that prices continued to fall in April: the ten-city index was 0.7% lower than a month earlier, and the 20-city index went down by 0.6%.
6月30日发布的最新Case - Shiller指数显示，四月房价继续下跌：十城市指数较一个月前下跌0.7%，二十城市指数下跌了0.6%。
Sara Johnson acknowledges that the global economic benefit from a fall in oil prices today is likely to be lower than that in the past.
萨拉·约翰逊承认，今天油价下跌给全球经济带来的好处可能比过去要低。
Perhaps that once was true, but today elderly Americans as a group have a lower poverty rate than the rest of the population.
也许这曾经是对的，但是今天美国老年群体的贫困率比其他人群要低。
The global economic benefit from a fall in oil prices today is likely lower than it was in the past.
今天油价下跌给全球经济带来的好处可能比过去要低。
Most of Africa is urbanizing at a lower level of income than other regions of the world did.
和世界其他地区相比，非洲大多数地区的城市化进程是在一个较低的收入水平上进行的。
After several years of cultivation and harvest, the site would be restored at a cost much lower than the price of excavation and reburial, the standard practice for remediation of contaminated soils.
经过几年的耕种和收获，该遗址将以远低于挖掘和重新掩埋费用的成本进行修复，这也是修复污染土壤的标准做法。
Economists projected that the federal government would collect a far lower percentage of total tax owed by delinquents than did state governments implementing similar programs.
经济学家预计，联邦政府征收的拖欠税款占总税款的比例，将远低于实施类似计划的州政府。
Turns out the Cremonese violins were made from trees that grew during a Little Ice Age, a period when temperatures across Europe were significantly lower than normal.
事实是，克雷蒙小提琴由生长在小冰河时期的树木制成，当时整个欧洲的气温明显低于正常水平。
Very low concentrations of vanadium, which is scarce in meats and somewhat lower in nuts than in other plant resources, are good evidence of meat consumption and thus a better-balanced diet.
极低浓度的钒在肉类中很少见，在坚果中的含量也比在其他植物资源中较少，这很好地证明了吃肉的好处，从而使得饮食也更加均衡。
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