A large proportion of old people live alone.

一大部分老人都是独居。

Water covers a large proportion of the earth's surface.

水覆盖了地球表面的大部分。

A large proportion of the nation's households are hooked up to the Internet.

全国大部分家庭都接通了互联网。

This is hard to achieve when, as is now the case in many big firms, a large proportion of staff are temporary contractors.

这是很难实现的，因为现在许多大公司的大部分员工都是临时合同工。

The maternal strategy evolved by harbor seals may have to do with their small size and the large proportion of their fat stores depleted in lactation.

麻斑海豹进化出的母性策略可能与它们的小体型和哺乳时消耗掉的大部分脂肪有关。

Since such a large proportion of their fat stores is exhausted despite feeding, mother seals clearly cannot support all of lactation using only energy stored before giving birth.

由于如此大比例的脂肪储备在喂养过程中会消耗殆尽，海豹母亲显然不能仅靠生育前储存的能量来维持整个哺乳过程。

Older people comprise a large proportion of those living in poverty.

在那些生活贫困的人中，老年人占有很大的比例。

A large proportion of the dolphins in that area will eventually die.

那个地区的很大一部分海豚最终都会死去。

Tice found that a large proportion of men cool down by going for a drive—a finding that inspired her to drive more defensively.

Tice 发现，很大一部分男性通过开车来降温，这一发现使她开车时更具防御性。

Although a small proportion of the total population, this perhaps had a massive local impact when a large proportion of the young men were removed from an area.

虽然在总人口中所占比例很小，但当很大比例的青年男子被迫迁出某一地区时，可能对当地产生巨大的影响。

Women make up a large proportion of the health workforce.

妇女构成卫生人力的一大部分。

This reveals collections with a large proportion of empty space.

这可以帮我们发现具有大量空白空间的集合。

A shockingly large proportion of Egypt's unemployed young people are graduates.

令人吃惊的是，埃及失业的年轻人中很大一部分是大学毕业生。

The public transpiration took a large proportion of service, including Metro.

公共交通包括地铁也有一定比率的服务。

They have undertaken to underwrite a large proportion of the supermarket's deficits.

他们已承诺支付该超级市场赤字的一大部分。

In my experience, a large proportion of the Python developers I chat with use this same platform.

就我的个人经验而言，与我交谈过的相当多的Python开发者使用的都是同样的平台。

"There is still a large proportion who go missing but the total Numbers are going down," said Worcester.

伍斯特说：“虽然失还有很大一部分比例的人失踪，但是总体数量呈下降趋势。”

In North America, which had a large proportion of people just above the $1m threshold, the ranks slimmed by 19%.

在北美，有很大一部分人的财富仅略高于100万美元这个门槛，富人的队伍精简了19%。

For me, social networking takes up a very large proportion of my web activity, and it is probably the most wasteful as well.

对我来说，泡在社交网络占了上网的大部分时间，但同时这又是最没意义的部分。

Scientists said they worked out the diet of 90 theropod species and found that a surprisingly large proportion were plant eaters.

科学家称，他们研究了90份肉食性恐龙物种的食谱，并且得出了惊人的发现：这些恐龙大部分都是食草性的。

If a large proportion of instances of a type of a collection are empty, then the report flags this as a possible memory waste.

如果有某种类型的集合有大量的实例是空的，那么报告会将它标记为可能的内存浪费。

Ideally, a large proportion of rainfall should be absorbed by the ground. Clearly, such a process is not possible on a hard surface.

大部分降雨理论上应该被地面吸收，对硬地面来说显然不行。

But a large proportion of global greenhouse gas emissions are actually other gases, such as N2O (nitrous oxide) and CH4 (methane).

但是，全球温室气体排放实际上有相当一部分是其他气体，如N2O(一氧化二氮)和CH4(甲烷)。

With the miners making up such a large proportion of the FTSE 100, the index has jumped by as much as 48 points this morning to 5344.72.

由于在英国富时100指数中，矿业股占据相当大的比例，因此，富时100指数今天早上上涨最高达48点，达5344.72。

Mr Obama's numbers seem the more remarkable given the large proportion of people who say that they do not expect to see quick results.

奥巴马的支持率似乎是不同凡响的。 但支持的人们说，他们并不认为美国状况会很快变化。

Starting from the last decade in 20th century, a large proportion of graduates from prestigious Chinese universities went to study abroad.

从上个世纪最后十年开始，大批中国名校毕业生出国留学。

And where a large proportion of wage contracts is indexed to prices, as in Spain, higher inflation would rapidly work its way through to wages.

在大部分工资合同根据物价进行调整的国家，例如西班牙，高通胀会很快通过就会导致工资上涨。

China, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia are some of the countries where exports account for a large proportion of national output.

在中国、新加坡、马来西亚、泰国和柬埔寨等国，外贸出口在国家工业产出中占据很大的比例。