In most years since 1960 some 7-8% of driving-age Americans bought a car.
自从1960年以来的大多数时间里,大约7- 8%的驾龄美国人会购买汽车。
In most years this makes them a lot of money (because, in fact, disasters rarely happen).
在大多数年份,这使他们赚了许多钱(因为事实上,灾难极少发生)。
Most years, our New Year dinner would have some form of taro: claypot chicken and taro, or taro in a version of Buddha's Delight.
多年来,我们新年的大餐有些由芋头做成:claypot鸡肉与芋头,在菩萨的欢欣的版本的芋头。
In most years the number of homicide victims between 11 and 19 in London hovers in the mid-teens. Last year it hit 26 and this year is heading higher.
多年来,伦敦城内十几岁的谋杀案受害者的平均年龄集中于15岁左右,而去年达到了26岁,今年平均年龄更高。
Considering the tremendous risk assumed by investors who back major insurance and reinsurance companies, the returns in most years are woefully inadequate.
考虑到那些一直支持主要保险业务的人和再保险公司所预测的巨大风险,使得在大多数年份利润总是可悲地不足。
My calculations on historical data show that, in most years, it makes little difference whether earnings are calculated by market value or by using the simple sum as S&P does.
我基于历史数据的计算表明,在大多数的年份,用市值还是标准普尔的简单加总来计算盈利仅有细微的差别。
Most years when these two planets meet, they meet only once and then go their separate ways. But in 2009, they will meet three times in conjunction, on May 27, July 10, and December 21.
大多数年份这两个行星只相遇一瞬就分道扬镳,但2009,他们将相遇3次,在5月27,7月10和12月21。
Most boilers have a lifespan of 15 to 20 years.
大部分锅炉的使用期限是15到20年。
The most ancient parts of the continental crust are 4000 million years old.
该大陆地壳最古老的那些部分有40亿年了。
He faces at most 12 years in prison and could be paroled after eight years.
他面临最多12年的监禁,可以在8年后获得假释。
It's expected to raise $410 million over the next five years, most of which will go toward funding a universal pre-kindergarten program for the city.
预计未来五年将筹集4.1亿美元,其中大部分将用于该市的一通用学前教育项目。
In most industrialized countries over the past few years, the fastest growth has been seen in the area of services.
过去几年,在大多数工业化国家,增长最快的领域是服务业。
It took humans 10,000 years to learn how to grow most of the crops we now take for granted.
人类花了1万年的时间,才学会种植我们现在习以为常的大部分农作物。
I found, as Hacker observed years before, that most wives want their husbands to be, first and foremost, conversational partners, but few husbands share this expectation of their wives.
我发现,正如哈克多年前观察到的那样,大多数妻子希望丈夫首先是谈话伙伴,但很少有丈夫对妻子有这样的期望。
The Romans began a campaign to expand the Roman Empire, and in 300 years they had conquered most of the Mediterranean area and parts of Europe.
罗马人开始了一场扩张罗马帝国的运动,在300年的时间里征服了地中海的大部分地区和欧洲的部分地区。
The feud between Porsche and Volkswagen, and between the Piech and Porsche families that own most of them, had dragged on for two years.
保时捷和大众之间、皮耶希和拥有多数大众的保时捷家族之间的恩怨,已经持续了两年。
Over the next two years, they made their most groundbreaking work, turning the recording studio into a magical instrument of its own.
在接下来的两年里,他们做出了最具开创性的工作,即把录音室变成了一个拥有自身魔法的乐器设备。
It was during the ages of the iron horse that delivery really starts to become fast. The United States translated most folk mails by train by nearly 100 years.
在那个时代,铁马才真正地提高了速度。在美国,主要使用铁路运送邮件有将近一百年了。
Most people's minds function at a high level even in their later years, according to researcher Timothy Salthouse.
研究人员蒂莫西·索尔特豪斯称,大多数人即使到了晚年,思维能力仍处于较高水平。
Most people spend much more time interacting with digital media than they did ten years ago.
大多数人花在与数字媒体互动上的时间要比十年前多得多。
In recent years the Austrian economy has outperformed most other industrial economies.
近年来奥地利的经济已经超过了其他大多数的工业经济。
The former US ambassador to Ireland has behaved most undiplomatically by describing his two years in Dublin as "very, very boring."
前美国驻爱尔兰大使称他在都柏林度过的两年“非常非常无聊”,这是不符合外交习惯的。
After its invention, it became an almost indispensable part of most households within the space of just a few years.
它在被发明后的短短几年时间里几乎成为了大多数家庭不可或缺的一部分。
For many, the most visible result of their four years is the loan payments, which now average hundreds of dollars a month on loan balances in the tens of thousands.
对于许多人来说,这四年来最明显的结果就是偿还贷款,现在有数以万计的贷款余额,每月需要偿还数百美元。
The chemical compound, ethanol, has risen in recent years as the most viable alternative to fossil fuels.
化合物乙醇近年来作为最可行的化石燃料替代品开始兴起。
Of the outstanding ladies listed below, who do you think was the most important woman of the past 100 years?
在下面列出的杰出女性中,你认为谁是过去100年中最重要的女性?
While the public sees greater workplace equality between men and women now than it did 20-30 years ago, most believe more change is needed.
尽管相较于20至30年前,现在公众认为职场中性别平等问题已经有所改善,但大多数人认为需要进行更多变革。
Humans arrived in the Kaliko Islands about 7,000 years ago, and within 3,000 years most of the large mammal species that had lived in the forests of the Kaliko Islands were extinct.
人类大约在7000年前到达加里科群岛,在3000年内,生活在加里科群岛森林中的大型哺乳动物物种大部分灭绝。
The Pleistocene epoch, most commonly known as the Ice Age, stretched from 1.8 million to 11,500 years ago.
更新世,也就是众所周知的冰河时代,从180万年前持续至11500年前。
The Pleistocene epoch, most commonly known as the Ice Age, stretched from 1.8 million to 11,500 years ago.
更新世,也就是众所周知的冰河时代,从180万年前持续至11500年前。
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