Kelly couldn't focus his eyes well enough to tell if the figure was male or female.

凯利无法看清那个人影是男的还是女的。

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KPMG wants women to account for a quarter of partners by 2010; Deloitte is aiming for a figure of 31% for its female partners and directors by 2009, up from 26% now.

毕马威[1]希望，到2010年，女员工可以占到四分之一；德勤[2]的目标则是，到2009年，女性员工及主管的比例从现在的26%增加到31%。

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The claviform figure - which looks somewhat like a numeral 1 - may even be a stylised form of the female figure, she says.

诺维尔还说，棒状的图象看起来有些象数字1，它也可能是女性形体的一种特有的形式。

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The fountain depicts a life-size female figure pouring water from an urn into a bowl with the inscriptions "take the water of life freely" and "water is best".

BBC: Rebecca Fountain in Bath

Rosewood lent itself admirably to carving African figures, too, as shown by a delicately modeled German figure of a "Black Female Nude" (1600-10) that suggests an African-inspired trope on the ancient Greek and Roman sculptures of "Crouching Aphrodite, " versions of which had been engraved by the early 16th century.

WSJ: Less Familiar Faces | Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe | Princeton University Art Museum | By Barrymore Laurence Scherer

The message has sunk in in Bahrain, where a third of finance-sector employees are female, and in Kuwait, where, including property, the figure rises to 40%.

ECONOMIST: Finance in the Middle East