In year three there was still nothing from the bamboo seed. But I would not quit. In year four.
到了第三年，竹子还是没有发芽。但我还是没有放弃。到了第四年。
Last year four Russians, one German and a Frenchman successfully completed a 105-day simulated trip to Mars.
去年，4名俄罗斯宇航员，1名德国和1名法国宇航员成功地完成了长达105天的模拟登陆火星的实验。
Last year four states went further, introducing laws that double the penalty for abortion if it is found that the woman is of "ill repute".
去年，有4个州更甚，他们提议，如果一个女人被发现“行为不轨”，其堕胎的惩罚将会加倍。
Last year four bears were found dead in New Hampshire after demolishing 90 pounds of chocolate and junk food - all four died of heart attacks.
去年，在新罕布什尔发现四只熊因为吃了90磅巧克力和垃圾食品后而死亡，死因都是心脏病。
Last year four-fifths of utility executives polled by Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a consultancy, expected mandatory emissions caps within a decade.
去年，一份剑桥能源研究组织的调查显示，4/5的公用事业管理人员期待未来10内推出强行限制排放措施。
For instance, earlier this year four children under 36 months died from choking on albendazole tablets (used to combat worms) during a de-worming campaign in Ethiopia.
例如，在今年早些时候的埃塞俄比亚除虫运动期间，4名不满36个月的儿童被用于除虫的阿苯达唑药片梗阻窒息而亡。
The same effect was true for the women – by the end of year four wives with a lower BMI than their husbands were significantly happier than those who weighed the same or more.
对于女人，结果也是如此——截止到第四年底，体重指数比丈夫低的妻子比那些体重和丈夫相当或更高的妻子要幸福得多。
At one point last year four of the top ten albums in Britain were Beatles recordings and the number-one album was a collection of songs by Vera Lynn, who was then 92 years old.
去年某一时点上，英国10佳专辑中的4个都是披头士乐队的专辑，而排行第一的专辑则是薇拉•琳恩的歌曲专辑，当时这位歌手已经有92岁了。
The four people were sentenced to a year in jail and fined a total of 30m SKr ($3.6m), although they will appeal.
这四人被判决有期徒刑一年并总共罚款3000万瑞典克朗（360万美元），不过他们将上诉。
Quartz is quartz—a silicon ion surrounded by four oxygen ions—there's no difference at all between two-million-year-old Pleistocene quartz and Cambrian quartz created over 500 million years ago.
石英是石英——由四个氧离子围绕的硅离子——200万年前的更新世石英和5亿年前的寒武纪石英之间没有任何区别。
"Each year the physical presence rule becomes further removed from economic reality and results in significant revenue losses to the States," he wrote in an opinion joined by four other justices.
他在一份与其他四位法官共同撰写的意见书中这样写道：“实体存在规则逐年脱离经济现实，使各州蒙受巨额税收损失。”
Our Susan Ann is twice as sharp as thee an' she's only four year' old.
我们的苏珊·安比你聪明一倍，她才四岁。
The Vatican draws more than five million people each year, and queues can reach four hours during peak season.
梵蒂冈每年游客量超五百万人，在旺季，游客排队所花的时间可达到四个小时。
Dicke heads a Netherlands-based four-year programme aiming to produce a scientific and business plan to bring insects to western tables.
迪克领导了一个以尼德兰为基地的四年期项目，这个项目旨在产生一个科学的和商业性的计划，从而把昆虫带到西方人的餐桌上。
Surgeons have successfully transplanted a liver into a four-year-old boy.
外科医生成功地给一个四岁的男孩移植了肝脏。
Livingston faces a four-year disqualification from athletics.
利文斯顿面临着为期4年的体育禁赛。
Next year, after a series of mergers is completed, just four railroads will control well over 90 percent of all the freight moved by major rail carriers.
明年，在一系列合并完成后，四家铁路公司将控制主要铁路运输公司90%以上的货运。
If you observed a four-year-old child, for example, my daughter is 4 years old; you might read up on Piaget's stages of cognitive development we covered those in class.
如果你观察一个四岁的孩子，例如我四岁的女儿，你可能要先研读皮亚杰的认知发展阶段理论，这一理论是我们在课堂上讲过的。
Not long afterward, the family was sitting having their dinner while the four-year-old grandson was sitting on the floor carefully checking pieces of wood.
没过多久，一家人坐在一起吃饭，四岁的孙子坐在地上，仔细地检查着木片。
The hypothesis is not undermined by observations that sea levels are falling relative to the Scandinavian coast by four millimeters a year.
尽管海平面被观测到相对斯堪的纳维亚海岸每年下降4毫米，这一假设并没有受到破坏。
Dad, a 68-year-old retired technologist and grandfather of four, had carefully considered my message, and crafted a response.
我爸爸，一名68岁的退休技术人员和四个孩子的祖父，仔细地考虑了我的话，并认真地回复了我。
It was a lovely day at the park and Stella Bianchi was enjoying the sunshine with her two children when a young boy, aged about four, approached her two-year-old son and pushed him to the ground.
今天天气很好，斯特拉·比安奇带着两个孩子在公园里享受阳光，这时一个大约四岁的小男孩走近她两岁的儿子，把他推倒在地。
The answer used to be two-year associate's or four-year bachelor's degree programs.
过去的答案是，需要完成两年制的副学士学位或四年制的学士学位课程。
Research shows that given 15 minutes of free play, four- and five-year-olds will spend a third of this time engaged in spatial, mathematical, and architectural activities.
研究表明，如果给定15分钟的自由玩耍时间，四到五岁的孩子会将其中三分之一的时间花在有关空间、数学和建筑的活动上。
Practicing a piece of music for four hours requires focused attention, but it is nowhere near as cognitively demanding as a sleepover with 14-year-old girls.
练习一段音乐4个小时需要集中注意力，但它远不及一个在外过夜的14岁女孩对认知的要求。
The four suspects—two 15-year-old boys, a 17-year-old girl and an 18-year-old man—were taken into custody on Saturday, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department said.
东京警察厅表示，四名嫌疑人，包括两名15岁的男孩、一名17岁的女孩和一名18岁的男子已于周六被拘留。
Worker with a four-year college degree earned $50,900, 62% more than the $31,500 earned by a worker with only a high-school diploma.
四年制大学学历的员工年薪为50900美元，比只有高中学历员工的31500美元要高62%。
The report recommends that more resources be devoted to teaching four-year-olds.
该报告建议投入更多的资源用于4岁儿童的教育。
In 1972, Professor Walter Mischel tested the willpower of 600 four-year-olds to six-year-olds.
1972年，沃尔特·米歇尔教授测试了600名4岁至6岁儿童的意志力。
An old man went to live with his son, his daughter in law, and a four-year-old grandson.
一位老人和他的儿子、儿媳以及四岁的孙子住在一起。
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