That India cannot seem to do any of these things suggests that it will always be a second-rate power.
然而印度似乎无法做到其中任何一条，它永远是个二流国家。
It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power.
据说大英帝国很大，很可敬，而美利坚合众国是一等强国。
Britain is a "second-rate power" which has been in decline for a century - yet London remains the most influential city in the world.
据英国《每日电讯报》报道，尽管大英帝国经过一个世纪的衰落，已沦为一个“二流强国”，但伦敦仍是全球最具影响力的城市。
The steady-state creep strain rate is a power function of deviatoric stress and exponential function of temperature and energy.
稳定蠕变应变率本构方程是作用在盐岩上的应力偏量的幂次函数和能量与温度的指数函数。
Assuming all requests cause equal load on the servers, this incoming rate enables the system to compute the required computing power needed to handle the demand.
假设所有请求造成服务器上相等的负载，则此传入速率可让系统计算处理需求所需的计算能力。
The unprecedented power which China possesses in its bargaining with foreign firms, is based on its size, growth rate and dynamic market.
中国与外国公司的讨价还价时的力量前所未见，这源于其市场之大、增长之快速、活力之充沛。
In principle, Chinese smelters are supposed to pay a market rate for the power they consume, which can account for as much as 40% of costs.
原则上来说，中国熔炉理应为其消耗的能量支付市场利率，这笔开支可能占到成本的40%之多。
Baseload power is delivered at a steady rate around the clock, while diesel is more suited to meeting spikes in demand.
基载电力需要全天候地稳定传输，而柴油机发电更能顺应急剧上升的供应需求。
Such predictive power could, they think, speed up the rate at which letters are chosen and words formed by those attempting to type by eye.
他们认为这种预测能力能够加快用眼睛打字时选择字母和构成词语的速度。
The batteries take one hour to charge and can provide enough power for 15 minutes of autonomous aerobatics at speeds of up to 250kph and a climb rate of around 5.3m per second.
电池可以在完成1小时的充电后，并能在航速250公里/小时的情况下提供15分钟的飞行，同时满足5.3米/秒的爬升速度。
Plotted against time, CCD performance, measured in pixels, has grown at close to the same dizzying logarithmic rate that computing power has (see below).
画出CCD的性能(用像素度量)随时间变化的曲线，可知它跟计算能力的增长曲线接近，都是以令人炫目的指数速率增长的(见下图)。
When the Conservatives came to power in 1979, the top rate stood at 83%, but was soon cut.
保守党在1979年当政时，最高税率曾达83%，但是很快就削减下来。
At that rate, a one-mile stretch of four-lane highway could power about 500 homes.
以这样的速率，一段1英里4车道的公路段将可以为500个左右的家庭供电。
Households with equal earning power and Shared responsibility for kids and chore typically have half the divorce rate, Sandberg said.
桑德伯格指出，夫妻收入能力相当，且一同分担家务和育儿责任的家庭，其离婚率只有平均值的一半。
For all its overwhelming industrial and mercantile dominance, the United States remained a tenth-rate military power (except for its navy) until galvanized by Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.
比如，由于拥有压倒性的工业与商业优势，直到日本袭击珍珠港之前，美国一直是个低等军事国家（海军除外）。
The index is based on the idea of purchasing-power parity (PPP), which says currencies should trade at the rate that makes the price of goods the same in each country.
指数在购买力平价（PPP）这一概念基础上产生，购买力平价是指货币应以使商品价格在各个国家保持一致的汇率兑换。
But when the new power from the use of tools has been exploited, the rate of world population growth fell and became almost stable.
但当工具的使用所产生的新动力被充分利用以后，世界人口增长率下降并且趋于稳定。
At first the machines' power doubled every three years; then in midcentury the doubling came every two years (the rate that inspired Moore's Law); now it takes only about a year.
起初机器水平还是三年翻一倍；到了上世纪中叶就两年一翻倍(摩尔法则就是从这来的)；现在大概一年就翻一倍。
Jammed roads, power blackouts and the inability to fill managerial and professional jobs could all bring Vietnam's growth rate crashing down.
交通杜塞，电力切断以及没有管理专业人才会使越南增长率急速下降。
According to its data, the true value of the yuan in real purchasing-power terms is almost exactly double its official exchange rate.
据它的数据，人民币按实际购买力计算的真实汇率差不多刚好是官方汇率的两倍。
Certain solar projects will receive as much as euro0.57 (73 cents) for each kilowatt-hour of electricity generated, compared with the going rate for dirtier power of around euro0.05.
某些太阳能发电工程每发一度电将会收到多达0.57欧元(73美分)的补贴，而与之相反，不可再生能源发的电每度要上交0.05欧元。
That is roughly the same rate as for wind power, even though most of the processes in CCS are already widely used in other industries, suggesting that the scope for improvement is slender.
即使CCS技术的绝大多数流程已经广泛地运用于其他产业，表明其技术改进余地有限，它的资本使用成本仍然与风电相似。
For as well as conveying a rise in purchasing power to consumers, the high exchange rate is exerting a powerful force for structural change.
同时对消费者购买力也传递着一个上升，高汇率对结构改变正在施加力量。
That's clearly not enough to power the whole economy: Germany's growth rate is slipping below 2% this year and is likely to be zero next year.
这显然不足以带动整体经济：今年德国的增速下滑至2%以下，明年很可能会降到零。
That's clearly not enough to power the whole economy: Germany's growth rate is slipping below 2% this year and is likely to be zero next year.
这显然不足以带动整体经济：今年德国的增速下滑至2%以下，明年很可能会降到零。
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