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 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%。

7. 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。

8. A quarter of a pound of tea.
    1/4 磅茶叶

9. You say you´ve got to get there at seven but it´s only a quarter to four now.
    你说你必须七点钟赶到那儿，可是现在才四点差一刻。

10. Caesar then decreed that the year should consist of 365 days, but every fourth year an extra day should be inserted at the end of February to make up for the quarter days that were lost.
    恺撒然后颁布命令，规定一年由365天组成，但每隔四年必须在2月底加一天，以补偿每年失去的1/4天。