Steamboats were not only faster but also transported upriver freight for about one-tenth of what it had previously cost on hand-propelled keelboats.
蒸汽船不仅速度更快，往上游运送货物的成本也只有以前手推运货船的十分之一。
The process is possible only with certain materials (plastics, resins and metals) and with a precision of around a tenth of a millimeter.
这个过程只能用特定的材料（塑料，树脂和金属），精度在0.1毫米左右。
The music kept playing 30 minutes later, I could see only one tenth of my screen while the rest was black.
之后音乐持续播放了30分钟，我只能看到十分之一的屏幕，其余的都是黑色的。
A tenth of all A-levels are in art and design, or drama, film and media studies-but only a twentieth of those taken by students who gained places at top universities.
艺术设计、戏剧、电影，或者传媒学专业的申请者占所有A级申请者的十分之一，但是只占那些申得顶尖大学名额学生的二十分之一。
The astronomers found an "X-ray mass" only a tenth of the mass found using the gravitational lens method.
天文学家发现“X射线估算的质量”仅有“引力透镜”方法估算的质量的十分之一。
Israel wastes only about a tenth of its water, and if everyone were equally efficient, the world's water problem would be much less pressing.
以色列灌溉只浪费约十分之一的水，如果每个国家都同样高效用水的话，世界水问题压力将大大减少。
But these costs typically represent only a tenth of a printed book's retail price, estimates Credit Suisse, an investment bank.
投资银行瑞士信贷评估说，这些代表性的印刷和运输成本仅仅占书籍定价成本的十分之一。
Because their density is only just smaller than sea water, a portion around one tenth of the iceberg usually sits above the surface.
由于冰山的密度比海水要小，一般露出海面的部分只占冰山的十分之一左右。
In 1980 financial-sector debt was only a tenth of the size of non-financial debt.
在1980年，金融行业的债务仅占非金融行业债务的十分之一。
You may find yourself bitterly disappointed when you only get a tenth of the requests-per-second (or worse) in production than you measured when performing benchmarks in your lab environment.
您可能会感到非常失望，因为您在生产中所得到的每秒请求数量仅仅是在实验环境中执行基准测试时所测数量的十分之一(或者更少)。
The researchers then narrowed down the X-ray beam so that it was just a tenth of a millimetre across and found that the fractal-like regions occurred only where the beam struck the sample.
研究人员随后将X射线的光束收窄，使其只有十分之一毫米宽，这时他们发现，碎片形的区域只出现在射线照射的地方。
Women make up only a tenth of the directors of FTSE-100 firms.
只有十分之一的妇女进入FTSE-100公司董事地位。
It orbits its star every 4.7 days, in a moderately elliptical orbit at a mean distance of only 0.04 AU (one tenth of Mercury's distance from the sun).
它每4.7天环绕恒星一周，其轨道为一个适度的椭圆，平均距离仅0.04个天文单位(为水星距太阳的十分之一)。
This is not only because Israel's casualties have been, at the very most, a tenth of those of the Palestinians and Lebanese.
这不仅是因为以色列的伤亡人数至多不过巴、黎之和的十分之一。
But current commercial thermoelectric devices only achieve about one-tenth of that limit, Hagelstein says.
哈格尔施泰因说，目前商业上热转变电的设备只能达到这个极限的大约十分之一。
In 1425 the note issue was valued at only slightly more than 1 percent of its face value; by 1450 it had fallen to less than one-tenth of 1 percent of face value.
1425年纸币的价值已经跌到了仅仅比其面值的1%多一点的程度；1450年跌到了其1%面值的十分之一。
Our age, race, gender, personal history, and, yes, wealth, only make up about one-tenth of our happiness.
我们的年龄、种族、性别，个人经历、是的，还有财富，这些只占幸福感的10%。
Meanwhile, financial-sector debt, only a tenth of the size of non-financial-sector debt in 1980, is now half as big.
同时，金融部门的债务额达到了非金融部门债务额的一半，而在[font=Calibri]1980[font=宋体]年只有十分之一。
In this characteristic the black rural-urban migrants were far different from the white migrants, only one-tenth of whom had moved interregionally from the South to the rest of the country.
在这方面，黑人移民和白人移民大相径庭，在后者中，只有10%的人从南部移居到美国的其他地区。
Even if we had another, similar low, he says, it would probably only cause temperatures on Earth to drop by the order of a tenth of a degree Celsius - peanuts compared to recent hikes.
即使这种情况会发生，他说，大概也只能导致地球温度下降0.1摄氏度左右，实在是微不足道。
That places it on a par with the Chernobyl disaster 25 years ago this month (though the radiation released at Fukushima is only a tenth of Chernobyl's, and nobody has died from it yet).
这使福岛达到了在25年前这个月发生的切尔诺贝利核灾难的高度(尽管福岛泄露的放射性物质只是切尔诺贝利泄露的十分之一，而且没有人死于泄露的放射性物质)。
And India, second only to China in the size of its population, has only a tenth as many researchers.
印度的人口规模仅次于中国，但其科研人员的数量仅为中国的十分之一。
Although stock prices and earnings move up and down violently, dividends have been more reliable, typically falling from the peak of a cycle to its trough by only one-tenth in real terms.
尽管股票价格和收益上下波动的很厉害，但是红利是比较稳定可靠的，按实值计算从波峰跌落到波谷也就十分之一的差距。
We think of our bodies as our own, but actually only a tenth of our cells are human.
我们认为自己的身体是只属于我们自己的，但事实上身体中只有十分之一的细胞属于人类细胞。
The exception to the urge to move appears to be in Asia, where only a tenth of respondents were keen on the idea, a lower rate than in richer Europe or the Americas.
亚洲的期望移民情况是个例外，只有十分之一的受访者表示会移民，比富裕的欧洲或美洲还要少。
Remarkably, the new technique, which the researchers call absorbance modulation, makes it possible to create lines that are only about one-tenth as wide as the wavelength of light used to create them.
这项了不起的新技术，研究人员成为吸光率调制，使得制造出所用光线波长十分之一粗细的线条成为可能。
Remarkably, the new technique, which the researchers call absorbance modulation, makes it possible to create lines that are only about one-tenth as wide as the wavelength of light used to create them.
这项了不起的新技术，研究人员成为吸光率调制，使得制造出所用光线波长十分之一粗细的线条成为可能。
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