1. But you mustn´t come home after a quarter past eleven. 但你不能超过11点1刻回家。
2. But a series of new environmental laws, together with the creation of parks and nature preserves that cover one quarter of the country, are aimed at protecting Costa Rica’s remaining forests. 但是人们制订了一系列新的环境保护法,还新建了占四分之一国土面积的公园和自然保护区,目的是要保护哥斯达黎加现存的森林。
3. It requires 97 per cent less energy to travel the quarter of a million miles from the Moon to Earth-orbit than the 200 mile-journey from Earth´s surface into orbit! 因此,从月球到地球的25万英里所消耗的能量要比从地球表面进入地球轨道的200英里所耗能量少97%。
4. When the moon is like this, we call it a quarter moon. 这时的月亮我们称之为半月。
5. We see the change from new moon to quarter to full and back to new moon every twenty-eight days. 我们每二十八天就能看到从新月到半月、到满月再回到新月的变化过程。
6. The doctors removed a section of the mummy and sent it to a laboratory. 医生们从木乃伊身上取下一个切片,送去化验。
7. The parent company, Walt Disney Corporation, said Thursday that its income rose 33 percent in the quarter. 它的母公司沃尔特·迪斯尼公司星期四说欧洲迪斯尼的收入本季度上升了33%。
8. Doors connect the train tunnels to the smaller tunnel every quarter mile and provide escape routes. 每隔四分之一英里就有出口接通火车隧道和小隧道,提供安全通路。
9. A quarter of a pound of tea. 1/4 磅茶叶
10. A 200-bed section for new-mothers is being added to the hospital. 医院新增添了有200个床位的产房。