As promising as the tool seems in enclosed quarters, the wand might not work well against forest fires and other widespread conflagrations, he said.
他说，尽管这种工具多用于室内灭火，但这根魔杖可能无法很好地对付森林火灾和其他大面积火灾。
Not the next two months or quarters or years, mind you. Decades.
注意，不是以后两个月或两个季度甚至两年，是几十年。
Yet prudence has not spared them: both economies contracted in the second and third quarters, and seem set for a further retreat in the current one.
然而，谨慎也不能使他们幸免：两个经济体在第二季度和第三季度都收缩了，而且似乎本季还将进一步衰退。
Lehman Brothers made losses in the two quarters before it collapsed yet continued to accrue a compensation pot not far off the levels of 2007.
雷曼兄弟公司在破产前，连续两个季度亏损，然而其员工报酬并不比2007年的水平差到哪里去。
Four quarters would have amounted to only forty francs, and he could not owe four, because six months had not elapsed since Marius had paid for two.
四个季度也只是四十法郎，他也不可能欠上四个季度，马吕斯在六个月以前便替他付了两个季度。
However, the quarterly statements are timelier. That said, be aware that the quarterly cash flow columns reflect the year-to-date (cumulative) totals, not the individual quarters' results.
但是季度性的流量表更及时，要知道它表明的季度现金流量是指从年初至今的累计值，而不只是这个季度的状况。
Contrary to popular belief, recession does not require two consecutive quarters of falling output.
和流行观点相悖，衰退并不要求连续两个季度的产出下降。
If England get knocked out in the quarters, people will say that's not good enough.
如果英格兰队在四分之一赛被击败，人们会说这还不够好。
Not only do you have to provide quarters for servicemen, but you also have to handle, store and retrieve large amounts of supplies and weapons without access to dockside cranes.
基地内不仅要为工作人员提供生活空间，而且还要在没有码头吊车可用的状况下管理、储存、调用大量的物资和武器装备。
Laws against inadequate quarters do not always cover such dwellings, and responsibility for inspecting them falls on the same local councils that would have to re-house their tenants.
法律列出的不合格的住宿条件通常不包括这类住处，而检查住宿条件的责任则落在当地议会的头上，当地议会必须为工人们安排新的住处。
It carried no weapons, provided cramped quarters, and required a "mother ship" for transport and recovery, but it could slip into regions that normal ships could not.
它不携带武器，藏身之处狭窄无比，需要“母舰”投放和回收，但它能偷偷溜进正常船只无法进入的区域。
The sense of a future has been amputated. According to the Levada Centre, three-quarters of Russians do not plan more than two years ahead; only 3% plan more than ten years ahead.
勒瓦达中心调查显示，四分之三的俄罗斯人民对两年以后的生活没有计划，仅有3%的人有超过十年的长期计划。
Three quarters said London's policymakers were business - friendly - though 23 per cent said they were not.
四分之三的人表示，伦敦的决策者对企业很友好——不过，23%的企业表示他们并不友好。
When I arrived it was not merely a home-coming from travel, it was also a return from my exile in the servants' quarters to my proper place in the inner apartments.
我回到家，对我来说不仅仅是旅行归来，而且也结束了仆人房里的流放，回到内屋里我应得的地位上去。
And between 2010 and 2015, the price is predicted to fall by another 40 percent — not least because LED prices will fall by three quarters thanks to new manufacturing techniques.
预计2010年到2015年，这一价格还会降低40%，尤其是，受益于新的制造技术，LED的价格会降低四分之三。
According to the Levada Centre, three-quarters of Russians do not plan more than two years ahead; only 3% plan more than ten years ahead.
据勒瓦达中心称，四分之三的俄罗斯人没有超过两年的计划；只有3%的人有十年计划。
Development cycles are not counted in quarters and years, but in months or even weeks.
开发周期不再以季或年计，而是以月甚至周来算。
So dismal is its reputation that three-quarters of crimes are not even reported.
由于三个季度的犯罪案件甚至都没有被报道，这个部门的声誉令人担忧。
He had an idea that he would slip out of sight for a while and then take up quarters in some outlying section of the city where he'd not be likely to stumble upon her.
他有一个想法，想溜走一段时间，然后再在巴黎某个偏僻的地方住下来，在那儿他不大可能会遇见她。
The key to living in a city and peacefully co-existing as a social animal in tight quarters is to set a delicate balance of seeing and not seeing.
作为一个社会动物，在城市里生活，在狭小的空间里和平共处，关键在于要在可视与勿视之间保持微妙的平衡。
And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.
我要使四风从天的四方刮来，临到以拦人，将他们分散四方(方原文作风)。这被赶散的人没有一国不到的。
Three-quarters of the farmland used to grow soya is now sown with a genetically modified variant, and the figures for cotton are not that far behind, thanks to its success in India.
四分之三曾种植大豆的农田现已种上转基因大豆，而棉花的数量由于在印度试验成功也不逊色。
Let them call their first quarters profitable as long as losses are not counted, so that investors can hope, at least for a while, that these fictions will come true.
那就把第一季度叫做盈利季度只要不算上损失就行暂时让投资者期盼着虚幻会变为现实。
Not all the comforts of home are to be found in our living quarters, but a great deal more are present than exist on deck.
虽然生活舱里不像家里那样应有尽有，但总比在甲板上要好许多。
It's also not good news for those in their fifties as three-quarters are confident the retirement age will have risen to 70 by the time they reach pensionable age.
四分之三的人确信当他们到领取养老金的年龄时，退休年龄会延长到70岁。
It's also not good news for those in their fifties as three-quarters are confident the retirement age will have risen to 70 by the time they reach pensionable age.
四分之三的人确信当他们到领取养老金的年龄时，退休年龄会延长到70岁。
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