'Geo-engineering plans to inject stratospheric aerosols or to seed clouds would act to cool the planet, and act to increase the extent of sea ice,' says Rasch.

拉施说：“地球工程计划将平流层的气溶胶注入到云层中，这将起到冷却地球的作用，并增加海冰的范围。”

Every austral spring, an ominous "hole" appears in stratospheric ozone over Antarctica.

每逢南半球春季，南极洲平流层中都会出现不祥的臭氧层空洞。

Barack Obama's inauguration was marked by global jubilation and stratospheric expectations.

奥巴马上任之际，全球为之雀跃，人们对其寄予厚望。

The slower rate of warming in the past decade might be due to a 10 percent drop in stratospheric water.

过去十年升温的速度较慢，也许是因为同温层水降低了10%。

Add the right amount of stratospheric sulphur and the temperature will come back down to where it began.

在向同温层释放适量的硫化物之后，气温便会回到上升前的水平。

Copper's price remains high, though it has slipped by around 5% from February's stratospheric levels.

虽然铜价与2月份的天价相比已下跌了约5%，但仍处在高位。

Every computer model of a stratospheric haze shows some decrease in rainfall, though the details vary.

每一个针对同温层云雾建立的电脑模型都显示了降雨减少的现象，虽然在一些细节上有所差异。

Its stratospheric price takes it far out of the reach of the average parent looking for a nice party dress.

高昂的价格超出了收入一般的父母的支付能力，尽管他们希望买一件精品礼服。

That is a legacy of the stratospheric valuations attained by Wall Street at the height of the dotcom bubble.

这是华尔街在互联网泡沫最全盛时期所作估值的遗留问题。

By comparison with the greenhouse effect caused by increases in carbon dioxide, the stratospheric drying is hardly massive.

相比二氧化碳增加导致的温室效应，平流层变干不可能产生重大影响。

The housing crisis looming over much of the country seemed manageable; home prices had never reached stratospheric levels.

风靡全国的房贷危机在这里似乎是在可以控制的范围之内；房价还从来没有飚升到过高的水平之上。

Canadian mining firms, like those elsewhere, have been riding high since metal prices began their stratospheric ascent in 2002.

和其它地方一样，自从2002金属价格持续狂涨后，加拿大的矿业工厂也是一片欣欣向荣的景象。

Such a small change in stratospheric water vapour can have such a large effect precisely because the stratosphere is already dry.

平流层里水蒸汽含量如此微小的变动可以造成如此巨大的影响，正是因为平流层早己非常干燥。

The first is: no, at altitudes as stratospheric as this, there is no such thing as better, there are only different ways of being great.

第一个回答是否定的。当艺术达到如此高度，通常没有“更好”，只有不同形式的伟大。

You can see that most clearly, perhaps, in stock prices, which have at long last fallen from the stratospheric levels of the past decade.

或许在股票价格上，你可以最为清晰地观察到这一点。股价终于从过去十年直上云霄的高位上跌落下来。

When swabs from surfaces reveal stratospheric levels of bacteria, up go howls of disapproval and in comes the industrial cleaning equipment.

当她们用试纸检测出表面的细菌水平含量时，不满意的咆哮之后便是工业化清洗设备的登场。

So far, apart from some low-altitude test flights, the only stratospheric tests have involved a scaled-down version tethered to a weather balloon.

目前对飞船只进行了一些低海拔的飞行测试，平流层的测试则仅仅是由气象探测气球负载着规模缩小的模型原型机来进行的。

Who knows, a little competition might even bring the price down from something that is out of this world, to a level that is merely stratospheric.

说不定一点小小的竞争就能把旅行所需要的超乎这个世界现实中能够想象的（天文数字般的）费用降低到就跟现在平流层的高空飞行一个价格水平（一万美元），可谁能说的准呢？

But its stratospheric price, and the fact that most economists think that inflation will fall back as the global economy slows, argue against it.

但是黄金价格高昂，而且大多数经济学家都认为随着全球经济增长放缓，通胀率将回落，这又使得购买黄金事与愿违。

Stratospheric air generally rises above tropical latitudes, spreads toward the poles, and then sinks back toward the lower atmosphere at high latitudes.

平流层的空气一般停留在对流层上空，向两极移动，然后再下沉到高纬度带的低层大气。

In addition, the larger than expected loss of UV light meant less stratospheric ozone up to 45 kilometers above the surface, but more above that line.

另外，紫外线的丧失量超过预期意味着距地面四千五百米高空的臭氧正在减少，且远远超于这一高度。

The Internet allowed people to pay lower prices for books but also encouraged them to pay stratospheric prices for shares in lossmaking dotcom companies.

互联网让人们买到了低价书，但是也激励他们以高价购买了亏损网络公司的股票。

Stratospheric: Robert Harrison captured images of the Earth like this one using a Canon Sure Shot camera fixed in a polystyrene box and attached to a helium balloon

平流层：罗伯特·哈里森将一台佳能 Sure Shot 相机固定在聚苯乙烯盒中并将盒子绑在氦气球上，仅凭此他捕捉到了上面这样的地球图像