On this score, London looks much better than Athens, which overspent by a factor of far more than two—and the great record-breaker, Montreal, whose citizens were paying for the 1976 games for decades.
从这一点来看,伦敦要比雅典和蒙特利尔好许多。雅典奥运会远超预算一倍有余,而蒙特利尔作为最牛的破纪录者,让她的市民为1976年奥运会还了几十年的债。
The two men were far more alike than they would ever admit.
这两个男子非常相像,尽管他们可能不愿意承认。
These can prove far more valuable than an extra dollar or two an hour over the long haul.
你所获得的这些将证明,他们远远地比赚美元或打两小时的长途有价值的多。
But they share a similar history: both planes finally took to the air more than two years late and far over budget.
但他们有着相似的经历:最终上天都比原计划了迟了两年以上和都远远超出预算。
When it's easy to compare two things, like salaries, dissatisfaction isn't far away because there's always someone who earns more than you or, in this case, has a better mp3 player than you.
当两相比较很容易时,不满就会近身,比如薪水,总有人比你挣得更多。或者,以这个例子来说,拥有一个比你的更好的mp3。
Yet, early on, he grasped two things that were far from obvious at the time, and he grasped them more clearly and pursued them more fiercely than his rivals did at Commodore, MITS or even Apple.
然而,早些时候,他抓住了两件不显的事情,他更清晰的抓住了他们以及比他的对手如Commodore,MITS oreven Apple更猛烈的追逐这两件事。
There are two reasons I only considered answer votes: there are far more question votes than answer votes, and question votes follow a similar pattern to answer votes.
我只针对回答的投票有两个原因:一是给提问的投票比回答的投票多得多,二是因为提问的投票和回答的投票非常类似。
An increase in net exports has accounted for no less than two-thirds of Germany's total GDP growth over the past decade, far more than any other big economy.
德国过去十年中的GDP增长总值至少有三分之二归功于净出口的增加,这个数据比其他任何大型经济体的都要大。
Peter Crouch, Emile Heskey, to take two favourite whipping boys, are more talented than they’re given credit for and certainly far from the stereotypical big lumbering centre forwards of old.
克劳奇,赫斯基,拿这两个被敲打最多的小伙子来说,他们的天赋远远高过得到的认可,他们肯定远远不是那种又大又笨的老式高中锋。
The assessment was far worse than just two months ago, and it predicted more grim news to come.
评估结果显示,情况远比两个月前要差,预计今后前景还会更为暗淡。
The appeals court later ruled that the two firms were far closer competitors with each other than with more humdrum stores, but by then the merger had been consummated.
上诉法院后来裁定这两家公司相对于普通商店来说,确实是非常紧密的竞争者。不过那时为时已晚,合并业已完成。
Solomon had thought as far as that more than two thousand years ago; she herself, though not in the van of thinkers, had got much further.
早在两千多年以前,所罗门已经想到了;而她自己虽然不是思想家,但是她想到的还要深刻些。
This is dangerous in two ways: First, it is far more than what is needed just to protect you against a lost or stolen phone.
其危险性存在于两方面:首先,它所做的比保护你免受手机丢失或被盗所需要的多多了。
So what we have is a situation where two people in a small, self-obsessed circle, have managed to do their reputations far more damage than leaving things alone would have.
我们在网络上看到的这些现象,其实就是两群在狭隘、迷惑圈子里的人设法以伤害别人,而不是就事论事的方法,来提高自己的知名度。
The operators of the Japanese nuclear power plant crippled by the earthquake and tsunami more than two weeks ago have reported the highest levels of radiation so far.
在两周多以前的地震中受损的日本核电站的运营商称出现了到目前为止最高水平的辐射。
Outbound traffic from Long Beach and Los Angeles, America's two top ports, has fallen by 18pc year-on-year, a far more serious decline than anything seen in recent recessions.
美国最大的两口岸,长滩、洛杉矶的出口流量比去年同期下降了18%,可谓最近能见到的衰退中的衰退。
But having driven in China for more than two decades, he has seen his fair share of nasty tie-ups, and spent far too many hours staring at the rear ends of coal trucks.
在中国开了二十几年的车,我已经看够了那些糟糕的交通堵塞,也曾坐在车里几个小时,盯着运煤卡车的尾部出神。
The size of China's domestic market is expected to surpass two trillion US dollars this year, far more than China's total export.
预计今年中国国内市场规模将超过2万亿美元,远远超过中国的出口总额。
America's demography is far more favourable, but the growth in its working-age population, at some 0.3% a year over the coming two decades, will be less than a third of the post-war average.
美国的人口结构相对比较有利,但在未来二十年,其劳动年龄人口每年增长约0.3%,不足一战后平均水平的三分之一。
The most recent versions of these two IDEs -- Netbeans 3.6 and Eclipse 3.0 -- have far more similarities than differences.
到目前为止,这两种IDE的最新版本分别是Netbeans 3.6和Eclipse 3.0,它们在许多地方都大同小异。
So far this month, more than $75bn has been raised, more than two-thirds of this by financial institutions trying to repair their balance sheets in the wake of the economic crisis.
本月迄今为止,总融资额已超过750亿美元,其中三分之二以上为金融机构发行,在经济危机之后,它们试图修复自己的资产负债表。
May travel as far as 55, 000 miles and visit more than two million flowers to gather?
蜜蜂可能飞55000英里,停落超过200万朵花才能采集足够的花蜜产仅仅一磅的蜂蜜。
Apple's iPhone, which launched two years ago, has so far sold more than 26 million units world-wide in more than 80 countries, but the majority of its sales have come from the U.S..
到目前为止,苹果两年前推出的iPhone在全球80多个国家已售出逾2,600万部,不过大部分销量都来自美国。
Professor Frink (by far the best character on the show) was in a lot more than two episodes.
Frink教授(到目前为止节目中的最佳角色)出现在不止两集中。
But new research by two American scientists has found that bad weather - or at least thunderstorms and hail - does seem to happen midweek far more often than it does at weekends, at least in summer.
两位美国科学家的最新研究表明,雷暴和冰雹这样的坏天气,往往发生在一周的中间时段,而不太可能发生在周末,至少在夏天如此。
Butt new research by two American scientists has found that bad weather - or at least thunderstorms and hail - does seem to happen midweek far more often than it does at weekends, at least in summer.
两位美国科学家的最新研究表明,雷暴和冰雹这样的坏天气,往往发生在一周的中间时段,而不太可能发生在周末,至少在夏天如此。
Butt new research by two American scientists has found that bad weather - or at least thunderstorms and hail - does seem to happen midweek far more often than it does at weekends, at least in summer.
两位美国科学家的最新研究表明,雷暴和冰雹这样的坏天气,往往发生在一周的中间时段,而不太可能发生在周末,至少在夏天如此。
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