A third of Africa is under threat of desertification.

三分之一的非洲大陆面临着荒漠化的威胁。

Nearly a third of the children were severely underweight.

约有三分之一的孩子曾严重体重过轻。

A third of the population is living at or below the poverty line.

三分之一的人口生活在贫困线或以下。

The Japanese routinely purchase more than a third of U.S. Treasury Bills.

日本通常购买三分之一以上的美国短期国债。

In the past, about a third of the babies born to women with diabetes died.

在过去，患有糖尿病的妇女生的婴儿中大约有三分之一都死了。

More than a third of workers said they called into the office while technically on holiday.

三分之一以上的员工说他们在按规定休假期间被召回过办公室。

A third of companies reviewing pay since last August have imposed a pay freeze of up to a year.

自去年8月以来，在审检工资发放的公司中，有三分之一已经强行实施工资冻结长达1年。

There are only 24 hours in a day, and usually about a third of that is spent sleeping.

一天只有24个小时，而且通常三分之一的时间是用来睡觉的。

Globally, a third of Sumatran cubs in zoos don't make it to adulthood, so I decided to give them round-the-clock care at home.

在全球范围内，动物园里三分之一的苏门答腊老虎幼崽活不到成年，所以我决定在家里全天候照顾它们。

It has already completed a third of its 6,000 mile trip to Victoria.

它已经完成了前往维多利亚的6000英里旅程中的三分之一路程。

People spend almost a third of their lives doing one thing: sleeping.

人们一生中几乎三分之一的时间都花在一件事上：睡觉。

He expects about a third of the city's lighter manufacturers to fold.

他预计这个城市大约三分之一的打火机制造商会倒闭。

From steel mills to paper factories, industry eats up about a third of the world's energy.

从钢铁厂到造纸厂，工业消耗了世界约三分之一的能源。

He has spent up to a third of every year on the remote archipelago in the central South Pacific.

他每年有三分之一的时间都在这个位于南太平洋中部的偏远群岛上度过。

Still, I find it strange that only a third of young people report preparing meals at home regularly.

尽管如此，我还是觉得很奇怪，只有三分之一的年轻人称他们经常在家做饭。

As much as a third of the total tree cover has been lost since agriculture began some 10,000 years ago.

自从一万年前农业开始发展以来，已有三分之一的树木被砍伐殆尽。

Over a third of mums felt they needed more training and around half said they missed going out with friends.

超过三分之一的妈妈认为她们需要更多的训练，大约一半的妈妈说她们想念和朋友出去的时候。

Last week the scientists warned that a third of the world's polar bears could disappear in the next 40 years.

上周，科学家们警告说，世界上三分之一的北极熊可能会在未来40年里消失。

You will be working with two other head brokers, in another words, you will be handling about a third of our clients.

你将与另外两名首席经纪人一起工作，换句话说，你将负责大约三分之一的客户。

According to Iran's New Islamic Penal Code, prisoners can apply for conditional release after serving a third of their sentence.

根据伊朗的《新伊斯兰刑法典》，囚犯可以在服满三分之一刑期后申请有条件释放。

According to estimates, about 120,000 tons of imported grain fed about 600,000 people: that is about a third of the Dutch population.

据估计，大约12万吨的进口粮食养活了大约60万人，约占荷兰人口的三分之一。

If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans, you probably get at least a third of your daily calories outside the home.

如果你一天吃三顿饭，并且表现得像大多数美国人一样，那么有可能你每天至少三分之一的卡路里是在外面吃饭摄取的。

To work it as a feature film, Mr.Carré's book had to be condensed into 127 minutes, almost a third of the length of the television version.

要将它制作成一部故事长片，卡雷先生的书必须被浓缩进127分钟之内，这几乎只是电视版本时长的三分之一。

However they did it, the Lapita spread themselves a third of the way across the Pacific, then called it quits for reasons known only to them.

不管他们怎么做到这点，拉皮塔人穿越了太平洋的三分之一，分散居住在那里，并称其离开是出于一些只有他们才知道的原因。

The giant bill of the chestnut-mandibled toucan makes up a third of the bird's body length, but thanks to a honeycomb structure, it's not as heavy as it looks.

栗嘴巨嘴鸟很大的喙占据了它身体的三分之一长度，但由于其为蜂巢式结构，它并没有看起来那么重。

Research shows that given 15 minutes of free play, four- and five-year-olds will spend a third of this time engaged in spatial, mathematical, and architectural activities.

研究表明，如果给定15分钟的自由玩耍时间，四到五岁的孩子会将其中三分之一的时间花在有关空间、数学和建筑的活动上。

Professionalism has turned the acquisition of a doctoral degree into a prerequisite for a successful academic career: as late as 1969 a third of American professors did not possess one.

专业主义已经把获得博士学位变成了学术生涯成功的先决条件：直到1969年，三分之一的美国教授没有博士学位。

In a survey conducted for eCornell, the DL division of Cornell University, less than a third of the respondents expected the quality of the online course to be as good as the classroom course.

康奈尔大学远程教学部 eCornell 的调查结果显示，不到三分之一的受访者期待网络课程的质量和传统课堂一样好。

The US has already lost more than a third of the native languages that existed before European colonization, and the remaining 192 are classed by UNESCO as ranging between "unsafe" and "extinct".

美国本土语言在欧洲殖民以前就已经存在了，现在美国已经丢失了超过三分之一的本土语言。剩下的192种语言被联合国教科文组织列为介于“不安全”和“灭绝”之间。

A third of the cost went into technology and services.

1/3的成本用于技术和服务。