The unemployment rate jumped to 8.1% in February, the highest in a quarter-century.
2月的失业率跃升至8.1%，为25年来之最。
It therefore seems prudent to ask: Will the next quarter-century be as peaceful as the last?
因此需要审慎地问一下：下一个四分之一世纪还会如过去一样的和平么？
Output per hour there rose by 7.2% a year in 1995-2004, against 5% in the previous quarter-century.
这些行业的每小时产量在1995年到2004年间增长达到7.2%，而在过去25年间的增长只有5%。
Healthy life expectancy in Africa is 45 years, a full quarter-century less than in high-income countries.1.
非洲人的期望健康寿命只有45岁，比高收入国家整整少了25岁1。
Over the following quarter-century he became known as the most versatile (and best paid) author of his time.
在之后接下来的二十五年里，他成为那个时代众所周知最多才多艺与薪酬最高的作家。
Healthy life expectancy in Africa is 45 years, a full quarter-century less than in high-income countries. 1.
非洲人的期望健康寿命只有45岁，比高收入国家整整少了25岁1。
Reform by stealth has been a hallmark of much of China's economic transformation in the past quarter-century.
在过去的十五年中，隐秘的变革成为中国经济变化的一个显著标志。
[font=Times New Roman][color=#000000]In a quarter-century of predicting, we have had our share of hits and misses.
[color=#000000][font=宋体]在过去的四分之一个世纪的预测中，我们既有说中的，也有失误。
Over the past quarter-century America's unemployment rate has averaged 5.8%, compared with 9.5% in France and 9.1% in Germany.
在过去的二十五年里，相比法国的9.5%和德国的9.1%，美国的失业率平均为5.8%。
Over the past quarter-century it has averaged 3% a year, accounting for roughly the same amount of GDP growth as capital investment.
在过去的25年里，它的TFP年均增长3%，大约与资本投入所拉动的GDP增幅相当。
Private-sector productivity has soared in the West over the past quarter-century, even in old industries such as steel and carmaking.
过去二十五年来，西方国家私人部门的生产力突飞猛进，即使像钢铁和汽车制造这样的老旧工业也不例外。
The favorite work of fiction in the past quarter-century was the Harry Potter series (23%), followed by Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code (20%).
在过去的二十五年里，最受欢迎的是哈利波特集（23%），丹布朗写的《达芬奇密码》紧跟其后，占了20%.
Fearing future unrest, Congress banned the interstate transport of fight films, a law that remained in force for more than a quarter-century.
由于对未来可能的动乱怀有恐惧，议会禁止拳击影像在州与州之间进行传送。这项法令延续了达四分之一个世纪之久。
Some Americans bristle at the implication that the only worthwhile thing any of them has done in the past quarter-century is to back Mr Obama.
这似乎暗示说许多美国人在过去25年里所做的唯一一件有价值的事情就是支持奥巴马，这令他们颇感愤怒。
That's why we at USA WEEKEND Magazine, as part of our 25th anniversary celebration, asked readers what they thought about the past quarter-century.
那就是为什么我们在美国周刊杂志上，把询问读者是怎样认为过去的这四分之一个世纪的这个内容作为我们的第二十五次年度庆典的一个部分。
My hunch is that that is right, and that we're every bit as open-minded about racial minorities as Jamaicans already were a quarter-century ago.
我的直觉告诉我，那是对的，对待少数族裔方面我们会像牙买加25年前一样开明。
GestureTek, with offices in Silicon Valley and Ottawa, has spent a quarter-century trying to perfect its technology and has enjoyed some success.
位于硅谷和渥太华GestureTek公司，已经花了25年努力完善自己的手势控制技术，并已颇见成效。
He says the measures are needed to counter one of the worst crises since the 1930s and a recession that is already the longest in a quarter-century.
他说，必须采取措施打击最严重的危机之一，因为1930年的衰退，已经是最长的四分之一个世纪。
But what has made this molecular clock so useful for forensic anthropologists over the past quarter-century is the fact that it stops dead when someone dies.
但为何这个分子时钟在过去四分之一世纪中对于法医学家如此有用呢？究其实是因为某人死去时它突然停止，凝滞了死亡瞬间。
The end of the quarter-century conflict has scattered 300, 000 Tamils. More than two-thirds of them are at a sprawling displacement camp called Manik Farm.
长达25年的冲突结束时，30万泰米尔人已经四处流散，他们中的三分之二以上目前住在一个叫做曼尼克农场的占地面积很大的难民营里。
For Japanese equity investors, it has not just been a lost decade, it has been a lost quarter-century; the Nikkei 225 average recently touched a 26-year low.
对于日本的投资者来说，不仅仅是迷失的十年，而是迷失的四分之一世纪；日经225平均指数(Nikkei 225)最近触到26年来的最低点。
The original idea was that people should enjoy a bit of a rest after a life at work, but nobody imagined that the rest would stretch to almost a quarter-century.
最初的想法是人们在工作了一辈子之后应该享受一些休闲时光，但是没人想象的到这一些休闲时光几乎长达25年。
William Lindesay, a Briton who has spent nearly a quarter-century working on wall conservation, says he thinks camping at a World Heritage site is simply "unacceptable".
几乎用了25年时间研究城墙保护的英国人威廉·林赛说，他完全不能接受在世界遗产地露营这一行为。
Mild mannered and precise when he speaks, he is a far cry from the mix of Quakers, pacifists, drafts resisters and hippies who founded the organization a quarter-century ago.
他讲话时举止适度，措辞准确，同那些由辉格党人、和平主义者、草案抵制者以及嘻皮士所组成的大杂烩截然不同，这些人二十五年前创建了该组织。
They must have recognized an anomaly inWashington's quarter-century star career: that, like Tom Hanks but notmany others, he's been a major movie male without anchoring an actionfranchise.
他们一定是认识到了华盛顿演艺生涯的不寻常之处：在他长达四分之一世纪的职业中，华盛顿是为数不多的像汤姆·汉克斯一样，一直没有出演过动作片系列的当红男影星。
Well, you could say that American bankers, empowered by a quarter-century of deregulatory zeal, led the world in finding sophisticated ways to enrich themselves by hiding risk and fooling investors.
好吧，你可以说美国的银行家们，四分之一个世纪内从放宽的金融政策中授权了热情，引领着世界寻找复杂的方法通过隐藏风险和愚弄投资者来为自己创造财富。
Well, you could say that American bankers, empowered by a quarter-century of deregulatory zeal, led the world in finding sophisticated ways to enrich themselves by hiding risk and fooling investors.
好吧，你可以说美国的银行家们，四分之一个世纪内从放宽的金融政策中授权了热情，引领着世界寻找复杂的方法通过隐藏风险和愚弄投资者来为自己创造财富。
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