尽管中国的人均生活标准仍然是美国的六分之一,而印度的则是十四分之一,在购买力差异汇率下,但是其中的差距已经变得小多了,并且正在快速地消失。
Average living standards in China are still only a sixth and in India a fourteenth of those in America at PPP exchange rates, but the gap is already much smaller than it was and is closing fast.
1959年,物理学家Richard Feynman打赌1000美元,预言不可能有人制造出边长不超过六十四分之一英尺的马达。
In 1959, physicist Richard Feynman bet $1000 that it was impossible to build a motor no bigger than 1/64 of an inch on each side.
根据世界银行的统计数据,它的人均GDP是美国的十四分之一,大约是哈萨克斯坦的二分之一。
S. Its GDP per head is one fourteenth of the U. S., roughly half that of Kazakhstan, according to the World Bank.
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