About one-quarter of toy sales in Britain are license-driven.

英国销售的玩具中有四分之一属于特许经营。

To grow and eat a pound of potatoes sends less than one-quarter pound of carbon dioxide into the air.

种植和吃掉一磅土豆，向空气中排放的二氧化碳不超过四分之一磅。

When drive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late 1950's, some 4,000 existed in the United States, but today there are less than one-quarter that many.

在20世纪50年代末汽车影院最受欢迎的时候，美国大约有4000家汽车影院，但如今，这个数字还不到当时的四分之一。

More than one-quarter of the world's oil and almost one-fifth of the world's natural gas come from offshore, even though offshore drilling is six to seven times more expensive than drilling on land.

全球超过四分之一的石油和近五分之一的天然气来自近海，尽管近海钻探的成本是陆地钻探的六到七倍。

One-quarter of Chinese buyers pay cash.

中国有1/4的购房者选择现金支付。

Of those products, roughly one-quarter were textiles, apparel or shoes.

这些产品中大约四分之一为纺织品、服装或鞋类。

In other words, more than one-quarter of the population will be tuning in.

换句话说，全国四分之一以上的人都将收看。

Financially, that figure commands more than one-quarter of the total market.

这一数字占到了市场总量的四分之一。

In 2008, bilateral trade grew more than one-quarter to about $ 2.63 billion.

2008年，双边贸易增加了四分之一强，贸易额增长至大约二十六亿三千万美元。

Excluding oil, the trade deficit has fallen by almost one-quarter since 2006.

刨除石油，自2006年以来贸易赤字下降了近四分之一。

Again, the richest tenth of Americans captures more than one-quarter of the benefits.

还需要说明的是，最富的十分之一美国人获取了超过四分之一的税务优惠。

Estimates of dropouts vary, but it seems that about one-quarter more boys drop out than girls.

辍学的估计数字有别，但是看来男孩比女孩辍学数要多四分之一。

China is fast becoming the behemoth of the global economy; it already produces one-quarter of global production.

中国正在迅速成为全球经济中的庞然大物，其产量已占全球总产量的四分之一。

It's estimated that one half of women and one-quarter of men over age 50 will suffer an osteoporosis-related fracture.

据估计，在50岁以上的人口当中，有一半的女性和四分之一的男性将出现骨质疏松症相关的骨折。

One-quarter of the nation's household assets sit in the postal system, which has been beset by on-off privatisation plans.

国内资产的四分之一都在邮政系统中，但该系统也正受到断断续续的私有化计划的困扰。

Voters ages 65 and older account for more than one-quarter of the electorate and vote at higher rates than other age groups.

65岁及以上的选民占了总选民的四分之一还要多，而且投票的比例也比其他年龄组的人高。

One quarter of teachers in an American city said that children in kindergartens had no time for playing freely.

在美国一个城市，四分之一的教师说幼儿园的孩子们没有时间自由玩耍。

So you were gypped out of one quarter – twenty-five thousand dollars – of the promised amount?

所以你被骗了二万五千美元，相当于承诺数目的四分之一？

The largest terrestrial planet, Earth has a diameter only one quarter as great as the diameter of the smallest Jovian planet, Neptune, and its mass is only one seventeenth as great.

最大的类地行星地球的直径仅仅是最小的类木行星海王星的四分之一，而且地球的质量仅仅是其质量的十七分之一。

I ate one quarter of a mooncake.

我吃了四分之一的月饼。

Dreams take up about one quarter of our sleeping time.

做梦大约占我们睡眠时间的四分之一。

Fill in the remaining one quarter with lean meat or chicken, fish or eggs.

剩下的四分之一用瘦肉或鸡肉、鱼或鸡蛋填满。

Only one quarter of the study participants had what the researchers call "eudaemonic predominance"—that is, their sense of meaning outpaced their feelings of happiness.

只有四分之一的参与者拥有研究人员所称的“幸福感优势”——也就是说，他们（生活）的意义感超过了他们（生活）的幸福感。

The world's food system is responsible for about one quarter of the planet-warming greenhouse gases that humans produce each year.

人类每年产生的温室气体中，约有四分之一是由世界的食物系统产生的。

Married Americans are happier, ceteris paribus, by approximately one quarter of a happiness point on the 1-3 scale.

其他条件不变，已婚的美国人会更幸福，在1-3规模上约高四分之一的幸福点。

Cash growth in one quarter was higher than the market cap of many companies.

一个季度的现金增加超过了很多公司的市值。

Per capita consumption among rural Chinese is only one quarter or one fifth that of their urban Cousins.

在中国，农民的人均消费仅为城市居民的五分之一到四分之一。

Any sales Apple misses in one quarter, White says, are likely to get picked up the next.

怀特表示，即便苹果公司的销售额在一个季度内有所损失，也很可能会在接下来的季度里好转。