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 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。
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。
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 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。
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。
Now, more than one quarter of all U.S households can surf in cyberspace.
现在全美超过四分之一的家庭在网络上寻找信息。
In all, 3,486 types of products - about one quarter of exports - will be covered.
此次共涉及总计 3486 项商品约占海关税则中全部商品总数的四分之一.
Many people are only able to spend one quarter of their time on top priority activities.
许多人只用他们四分之一的时间来处理最重要的事情。
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。
Financial Tsunami (2008) One quarter of the world's wealth vanishes seemingly overnight.
金融海啸(2008)几乎一夜之间世界的财富就缩水了四分之一。
Note this: with five hundred millions we could pay one quarter of the expenses of our budget.
请注意，用这五亿法郎我们就可以支付国家预算开支的四分之一。
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。
Although far from household names, they are huge companies, churning out about one quarter of the world's semiconductors.
虽然远非家喻户晓，但他们都是巨型企业，以致制造全世界半导体的四分之一。
Post-colonial regret, or guilt may play its part in a nation still coming to terms with having lost one quarter of the world.
后殖民时代的叹惋或内疚也起到一定作用，尽管这个国家仍未完全适应失去了四分之一世界的现实。
Put another way: humanity can only afford to burn and vent less than one quarter of known oil, natural gas and coal reserves.
换一种表达方式：人类只可以燃烧和释放已知石油、天然气和煤储量的四分之一。
Half of urban households lack drinking water within the home; one quarter have no access to a toilet, either public or private.
一半的城市家庭缺乏室内饮用水，四分之一的家庭用不到抽水马桶，不论是指在公共厕所还是私人卫生间。
One quarter to one half of the women who reported this abuse, said that they had been deliberately kicked or punched in the abdomen.
对这一虐待进行报告的四分之一至一半的妇女说她们的腹部曾遭到故意的踢打。
Holland, with one quarter of the population, has never won a World Cup but has reached three finals and won the European Championship.
人口只有它四分之一的荷兰，虽然从未夺冠，却三次杀入决赛圈，还曾称霸欧洲冠军杯。
One quarter of respondents have considered wearing coloured contact lenses to change their eye colour temporarily - and blue is most wanted colour.
四分之一的受访者考虑过通过戴有色隐形眼镜来“暂时”改变一下眼睛的颜色——其中，蓝色隐形最受欢迎。
Take a look at your dinner plate proportions - you should fill one half with non-starchy vegetables, one quarter with lean meats or alternatives, and one quarter with starchy carbs.
看看你餐盘中的食物比例，应该是一半非淀粉蔬菜，四分之一瘦肉或者肉类替代品，四分之一碳水化合物食品。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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