This means a television is a much less considered purchase than it has been in the past, because it represents a far smaller proportion of someone's salary.

这意味着与以前相比，购买电视不再是一个重大决定，因为它在工资中的比重大大降低了。

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Well over 60% of U.S. jobs were in agriculture in the 19th century, and the proportion has been declining ever since. Today it's less than 2%.

19世纪，美国农民占总就业人数的比例远超过60%，此后该比例一路下滑，到今天已经不足2%。

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Roughly two-thirds of African-Americans now believe that Martin Luther King's dream has been fulfilled-a proportion that has doubled in less than a year, a CNN poll says.

CNN的一项调查显示，大约三分之二的非洲裔美国人现在都认为马丁·路德金的梦想已经实现——这项数字在不到一年的时间里增长了一倍。

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An investigation by the Washington Post concludes that special interests have increased their spending fivefold compared with the 2006 mid-terms, and that the disclosed proportion has declined from more than 90% to less than half.

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In the latest census, in 1999, immigrants numbered 4.3m and made up some 7.4% of the population (overseas territories excluded), a proportion that France's national statistics office reckons has been more or less constant for a quarter of a century.

ECONOMIST: France, race and immigration

Even so, less than 19% of their portfolios are in euros, a proportion that probably has not risen much this year.

ECONOMIST: The dollar