1. In a time of increasing specialization, a time when 90 percent of all the scientists who have ever lived are currently alive, more than ever, we need to know what is truly important in life.
    在一个日益专业化的时代，在一个本时代所有科学家的90%现在都还健在的时代里，我们比过去任何时候更需了解什么是生活中真正重要的东西。

2. In 95 percent of the cases a sympathetic, reasonable decision can be made after appropriate discussion.
    有95%的病例，在恰当磋商之后，都能做出人道而合理的决定。

3. In 5 percent of cases where such a judgment cannot immediately be reached, the proper decision will become apparent after a few days or weeks of basic treatment, observing the patient's progress.
    另外的5%不能立即达成这样的决议。遇上这种病例，做上几天或数周的基本治疗，观察病人的进展之后，正确的决定就一目了然了。

4. In his recent book Earth Politics, Ernst Ulrich von Weizsacker wrote that "perhaps 90 percent of the destruction of animal and plant species, soil erosion, forest destruction and creation of deserts is taking place in developing countries."
    在其新作《地球政治学》一书中，厄恩斯特·乌尔里克·冯·魏茨泽克写道："动植物物种灭绝，土壤受侵蚀，森林被毁，沙漠产生，在这些破坏中，也许有90%正发生在发展中国家。"

5. In studies of seventeen less-developed countries, women's work hours exceeded men’s by 30 percent.
    对17个欠发达国家的研究表明，妇女的工作时间超过男性的30%。

6. In the Philippines, women were found to contribute about a third of households’ cash income, but 55 percent of household support if the economic value of their activities at home, such as growing food or gathering hay to feed the family donkey, is in
    在菲律宾，人们发现三分之一家庭的现金收入来自妇女，若是将她们家务劳动的经济价值计算在内，比如种粮食和捡干草喂家里的驴，那她们提供的家庭经济支持将占55%。

7. Forty percent of the patients died.
    百分之四十的病人在医院里死去。