No dessert for me, thanks. It was as much as I could do to finish the main course.
谢谢，别给我甜食了。我吃完这道主菜就不错了。
Instead, the most sensible thing would be for neighbors to combine efforts to produce as much food as possible, and thus aggregated towns were a sensible arrangement.
"相反，最明智的举措是邻里之间一起努力生产尽可能多的食物，这样将人口聚集起来的城镇就是一种明智的安排。
Long queues, delayed flights and overcrowding at airports have become almost as much a topic for conversation in Britain as the traditional complaining about the weather.
在英国，排长队、航班延误和机场过于拥堵几乎已经成为频繁的谈论的话题，就像人们一直以来抱怨天气一样。
Nowadays, the average weekly screen time for children is twice as much as it was five years ago.
如今，孩子们平均每周看电子屏幕的时间是五年前的两倍。
First I've got to have numbers—delegates to the conference, their husbands or wives and so on—for the transport as much as anything else.
首先，我得知道人数——参加会议的代表，他们的丈夫或妻子等等——因为要安排交通和其他事情。
Now, the new study has shown that if they were paid for their parental labours, they would earn as much as＄172,000 a year.
现在，新的研究表明，如果做父母也能拿到报酬的话，他们一年将赚到17.2万美元。
In Lagos, foreign oil workers can pay as much as $65,000 per year in rent for a modest apartment in a safe part of town.
在拉各斯，外国石油工人每年需要支付高达6.5万美元的租金才能在镇上一个安全的地段租到一套普通公寓。
The huntsman promised to procure as much game for him as he could possibly use at the royal table.
猎人答应为他捕捉猎物，王宫里要多少就捕多少。
They were not brother and sister; but they cared for each other as much as if they were.
他们不是兄妹；但他们彼此关心，就好像兄妹一样。
Fred would have paid twice as much as he did for his car if the salesman had insisted, as he really needed the car.
如果售货员坚持的话，弗雷德会付双倍的钱买他的车，因为他真的很需要那辆车。
The Met, for its part, is undergoing as much upheaval as News International, which owned the now-defunct newspaper.
就伦敦警察局而言，它所遭受的巨变不亚于现已关闭报纸的新闻国际。
Sheep once sold for as little as 50 cents each during a glut in the 1980s, but today some breeds of ewe can sell for as much as $200 a pop.
在20世纪80年代的一次供过于求中，羊的价格一度低至每只50美分，但如今一些品种的母羊可以卖到每只200美元。
I think they are just asking all the firms in town for as much money as they think they'll give.
我认为他们只是在向镇上所有公司索要他们认为他们会给的钱。
The oil industry goes with the high end of the range, which could equal as much as 10% of U.S. consumption for as long as six years.
石油业的最高储量相当于美国六年石油消耗量的10%。
It has depended heavily on construction, which accounts for as much as 18% of GDP, nearly twice the share in other European countries.
因为它对房地产行业依赖严重，房地产业对GDP的贡献为18%，这一比例几乎是其他欧洲国家的两倍。
In principle, Chinese smelters are supposed to pay a market rate for the power they consume, which can account for as much as 40% of costs.
原则上来说，中国熔炉理应为其消耗的能量支付市场利率，这笔开支可能占到成本的40%之多。
For the recent study, they stored a number of commercially available, pilsner-style beers for as much as 10 years in order to compare the chemistry of aged beers with that of freshly-obtained samples.
在最近这项研究中，他们把几种市面上可见的比尔森风格的啤酒放置10年之久以对陈年啤酒与刚获得的新鲜样品进行化学方面的比较。
Dental fillings mean that they account for as much as a fifth of Britain's mercury emissions: regulations require crematoria to cut mercury emissions by half by 2012.
补牙材料意味着火葬所排放的汞占到英国汞排放的两成之多：规制措施要求火葬场到2012年时，将其汞排放量削减一半。
Construction accounts for as much as three-quarters of the cost of nuclear generation, since fuel and other operating costs are relatively low.
由于核电厂的燃料和其他运作成本相对较低，建造成本相当于核能发电成本的四分之三。
Environmental hazards are responsible for as much as a quarter of the total burden of disease world-wide, and more than one-third of the burden among children.
从世界范围的情况看，四分之一的疾病总负担是由环境危害造成的，其中有三分之一以上发生在儿童当中。
The oil price has risen mainly because of strong demand in emerging economies, which have accounted for as much as four-fifths of the total increase in oil consumption in the past five years.
在过去五年中这些新兴国家对石油消耗量增长了五分之四，这表明石油价格飞涨的主要原因是这些国家对能源的巨大需求。
As it was published privately, no copyright was issued, so the novel was free game to any and all who wished to pirate their own editions, and the pirates could sell them for as much as possible.
由于私人发售的小说并无版权可言，这本书对于任何想盗版的人来说都是易如反掌，并尽他们都在尽可能地多卖一本是一本。
Under new European Union rules, enforceable by national regulators, senior executives' cash bonuses are limited to 20 per cent of total pay, with the rest deferred for as much as five years.
新的欧盟规定，国家监管机构可强制执行，高级管理人员的现金奖金被限制于总薪酬的20%，其余的可被推迟长达五年。
Despite a challanging economy, there were expensive gowns and jewels for pets. Gowns went for over $1000 dollars and dresses were going for as much as $1500.
尽管目前全球正面临经济挑战，宠物依然享有昂贵的礼服和珠宝，此次宠物时装周在宠物的礼服上共花费1000多美元，其他服装费用多达1500美元。
A back-of-the envelope calculation suggests China may have accounted for as much as 2 percentage points of annualised growth in inflation-adjusted world output in the second quarter of 2009.
根据粗略计算，2009年第二季度，中国可能为经通胀调整、折合成年率计算的全球产出增幅贡献了高达两个百分点。
A back-of-the envelope calculation suggests China may have accounted for as much as 2 percentage points of annualised growth in inflation-adjusted world output in the second quarter of 2009.
根据粗略计算，2009年第二季度，中国可能为经通胀调整、折合成年率计算的全球产出增幅贡献了高达两个百分点。
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