When he condescended to speak, he contradicted himself three or four times in the space of half an hour.
当他屈尊讲话时,半小时内有三四次前后矛盾。
During the second half of the 20th century, grain prices rose dramatically several times.
在20世纪下半叶,粮食价格经历了几次大幅上涨。
Between 1920 and 1960, big cities in developed countries increased two and a half times in size, but in other parts of the world, the growth was eight times their size.
1920年到1960年期间,发达国家大城市的面积增长了2.5倍,但在世界其他地区,城市的面积增长了8倍。
The number of students taken to hospitals increased one and a half times from nineteen ninety-seven to two thousand seven.
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Even in peacetime, military expenditures take up almost half of the budget of any European state, and in times of war, eighty percent.
即使在和平时期,欧洲任一国家的军费开支,也几乎占据了其预算的一半,在战时,更是达到了80%
But now if you have a twenty-ounce bottle, your cue for when the drinking event ends is completely different than when I was a child, and its two and a half times different then when I was child, and so people have become calibrated to what difference sizes are.
但现在如果你喝了一瓶二十盎司可乐,会觉得现在的饮用量,和我小时候已经完全不同了,是我小时候的2.5倍,人们已经校正了其中差异的大小
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