Thanks to its industrial past, in Germany you are expected to arrive at least ten minutes earlier for any planned meeting.

由于过去的工业化，在德国，任何计划好的会议你都要提前至少十分钟到达。

Heir to an industrial past, the region has turned towards tourism.

曾经工业的继承者，而如今这里已转向旅游业。

Nord-Pas-de-Calais. Heir to an industrial past, the region has turned towards tourism.

北部-加来海峡。 曾经工业的继承者，而如今这里已转向旅游业。

The result is a neighborhood that remembers its industrial past through its scale, layout and materials.

成果是通过它的规模、外观和材料让周遭记住它原本的工业历史。

These little fragments of history could help shed light on the city's industrial past and its working-class slums.

这些历史的片段可以帮助我们更了解这个城市的工业历史和劳动阶层贫民窟。

Thanks to its industrial past, in Germany you are expected to arrive at least 10 minutes early for any scheduled meeting.

由于过去的工业习惯，在德国你应该比任何预定的会议时间提前10分钟到达。

IT HAS been a tough summer for Muncie, a small city 60 miles north-east of Indianapolis and half way between an industrial past and a possible future as a college town.

小城芒西，位于印地安娜维尔斯东北部60英里远。 小城过去以工业为重心，未来可能会成为大学城。 这个夏天对于小城的居民来说，日子可不好过。

Frustrated by these restrictions, Subra left her job in 1981, created her own company, and has devoted the past two decades to helping people fight back against giant industrial polluters.

由于对这些限制感到失望，苏布拉于1981年离职，创建了自己的公司，并在过去20年里致力于帮助人们对抗工业污染巨头。

China's exports over the last few months have only managed to stabilise, but its industrial production jumped by an annualised 25% in the past three months.

前几个月里中国的出口只能持稳，但是在过去三个月里其工业生产值以25%的年增长率猛增。

The Dow Jones industrial average, hovering near 11,000, is up 70 percent in the past 13 months, and auto sales in the first quarter were up 16 percent from 2009.

过去13个月间，道琼斯工业平均指数已上升70%，目前在11,000点附近徘徊，今年第一季度的汽车销售量比2009年增长16%。

The Dow Jones industrial average, hovering near 11, 000, is up 70 percent in the past 13 months, and auto sales in the first quarter were up 16 percent from 2009.

过去13个月间，道琼斯工业平均指数已上升70%，目前在11,000点附近徘徊，今年第一季度的汽车销售量比2009年增长16%。

In another study, Mr Slacalek finds that in industrial countries, the effect of a change in housing wealth on spending has risen in the past 15 years.

斯拉·卡勒的另一项研究发现工业国家中的房产财富对消费支出的影响已在过去持续增长了15年。

In the past 50 years, bureaucrats helped develop the industrial policies that turned Japan from post-war collapse to the second-biggest economy in the world.

在过去的50年间，这些官僚们大力发展工业政策，使日本在战后废墟上建成了世界第二大经济国家。

The Dow Jones industrial average has lost 380 points over the past three days.

道琼斯工业平均指数在过去3个交易日内骤降380点。

Over the past two decades the old guard has taken a rusting industrial base and from it made gleaming corporate giants.

过去二十年来，老一辈的人从锈蚀的工业基础中创建了闪亮的企业巨人。

The same eyes that were scanning the tribal past for its wonders and amazements were also on the look-out for the imagined marvels of what George Lucas would one day call "Industrial Light and Magic."

他们的眼睛在扫视着部族过去的奇迹和胜景的同时，也在展望着出想像中的奇景，而这奇景，后来被乔治·卢卡斯称为“工业光魔”。

China's exports over the past few months have managed only to stabilise, but its industrial production jumped by an annualised 25% in the past three months.

在过去几个月内，中国的出口勉强稳定，但近3个月内工业品出口上涨了25%。

Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said Wednesday that the radiation detected at the Fukushima plant had fallen steadily over the past 12 hours.

日本核工业安全协会周三说在福岛检测到的核辐射已于过去的二十四小时内降落。

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has jumped over 1, 000 points in the past 30 days.

在过去的三十天里，道琼斯工业平均股指上扬了1000多点，然而这仅仅是股市的反弹的开始阶段。

German industrial conglomerate Siemens, for instance, has seen its share price triple in the past five years, thanks in part to strong sales growth in energy-saving LED lights and wind turbines.

比如说，德国工业巨头西门子的股票在过去5年之中翻了3倍。究其原因，就是因为节能型液晶显示器和风力涡轮带来了强劲的销售增长。

Applying both methods to worldwide data, the scientists say industrial fishing over the past decades has not simply worked its way downwards from the top of the food chain -- it has gone upwards, too.

如果将关注食物链顶端和底端的方法同时应用到全球性数据上，那么，科学家们得出的结论是，过去10年的工业捕渔更偏向捕食低食物链鱼类，而对高食物链等级的鱼类而言，它们的食物总量减少了将近一半，倘若按照食物链理论的逻辑，现存高食物链等级的鱼类总数是增加了而不是减少了，因此，不能够简单地认为，工业“捕渔”导致鱼类总体的数量减少。

The past few weeks, in particular, have seen a sequence of events that could yet prove to be the tipping point that turned dextrous but limited industrial robots into handy helpmates around the home.

尤其是过去几周目睹的一系列大事件，甚至颠覆了传统观念，使灵巧却受限制的工业机器人摇身一变成为家庭的巧助手。

Magazines, as they exist now, are expensive artifacts of an industrial process that has been refined over the past century.

在过去的一个世纪里，杂志一直被视作一个较为昂贵的工业流程制品。