It's a quarter to one.

差一刻一点钟。

It is the only one of the three companies expected to show a profit for the quarter.

这是3家公司中惟一1家有望在本季度出现赢利的公司。

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。

A survey I conducted with Irene Whitney found that in British primary schools up to a quarter of pupils reported experience of bullying, which in about one in ten cases was persistent.

我与艾琳·惠特尼进行的一项调查发现，在英国小学，多达四分之一的学生报告曾遭受欺凌，这些案例中约有十分之一具有持续性。

One big change is that the “success fee” would in the future come out of any damages awarded—but only up to a quarter of the total.

“胜诉金”是其中一大改变，将来它会从裁决的赔偿金中支出——但不超过赔偿金的四分之一。

According to one much-cited calculation, the country's last printed newspaper will land on a doorstep sometime in the first quarter of 2043.

有一项预测被多方引用，那就是在2043年第一季度的某天，投递到某个门口的将是这个国家的最后一份印刷报纸。

Short-term returns mean very little and a fund that has a good quarter or year is actually more likely to be overvalued than one that has struggled.

短期收益即收益很少，季度表现或年度表现优良的基金实际很可能比业绩差的基金估价偏高了。

A quarter of all of Britain's income tax revenues this year will be paid by just one per cent of earners, according to official data.

官方数据显示，今年英国四分之一的所得税收入将来自于1%的纳税人。

One-off charges aside, its third-quarter results suggest the company is in line for a 20% increase in turnover this year to over Euro50 billion ($64 billion), with pre-tax profits up 11%.

剥离一次性费用，公司第三季度的销售额比去年同期增长了20%，达到500亿欧元（640亿美元），税前利润上涨了11%。

The U.S. held Turkey to one field goal over the first 6 minutes of the second quarter, extending the lead to 10 on a 3-pointer by Durant.

美国队让土耳其在第二节的前6分钟内，只靠罚球得到了一分。

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。

A further quarter book short breaks only two to four weeks ahead, while a third (35%) book one to three months in advance.

另外有四分之一的人仅提早两至四周预订短期度假，而三分之一(35%)的人提早一至三个月预订。

Moving a horizon in a landscape to the position of one third is often more effective than placing it in the middle, but it could also be placed near the bottom one quarter or sixth.

将一幅风景画的水平面放在三分之一处要比放在正中间效果更好，但是，它也可以放在接近底部的四分之一或六分之一处。

Yet one bit of old media seems to be doing rather well. In the final quarter of 2009 the average American spent almost 37 hours a week watching television.

但传统媒体中有一位似乎混得也还游刃有余：据统计，在2009年的第四季度，美国的普通老百姓每星期有将近37小时是花在看电视上的。

The park claims to receive, on average, one package a day containing rocks (one was over 70 pounds), with approximately a quarter of these reporting bad luck associated with the rock.

据公园宣称，他们平均每天都能收到一个含有岩石的包裹（超过70磅），据说其中大约有四分之一的石头和厄运有关。

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。

Half the hotel used to meet in the bistro in the evenings. I wish one could find a pub in London a quarter as cheery.

旅馆的房客有一半晚上都会聚集到小酒馆里，我倒希望谁在伦敦能找到一间酒馆，气氛能赶上这儿的四分之 一热烈就行。

Nearly half the nation's 14 to 18 year olds used a library computer last year, and one quarter did so once a week or more.

去年，这个国家几近一半的14至18岁的国民使用过图书馆的计算机，而且有四分之一的人一周至少使用一次或更多。

Typically, most people will recall less than a quarter of the brown things in the room while being able to recall almost one hundred percent of the red.

通常的，大多数人在能够几乎百分之百地复述房间内红色物品的同时，只能会想起不到四分之一的棕色物品。

And modern life adds to the burden, with one in five forgetting important passwords and a quarter not remembering to charge their mobile phone battery.

现代生活加重了这一负担，五分之一的人忘记了重要的密码，四分之一人记不起给手机电池充电。

The terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but they require Apple to make a one-time payment and ongoing royalties large enough to materially improve Nokia's earnings for the quarter.

和解条款未予披露，但诺基亚要求苹果除了支付一次性赔偿金外，还须支付专利使用费，数额之大足以显著改善诺基亚的季度盈利。

Among smartphone owners, more than one-quarter (26 percent) have downloaded a hotel application and have used it primarily to book a room (54 percent).

在智能机用户之中，四分之一以上的人(26%)曾下载酒店应用程序，并主要使用它来订房(54%)。

This year the increase in China's net exports (ie, less imports) is likely to account for about one quarter of its growth—a record amount.

今年中国的净出口增长（即减去进口额）有望创下历史纪录，占到经济增长的四分之一。

At the University of Washington, for example, in recent years, as many as one-quarter of the students found they were unable to get into a humanities course.

例如，在华盛顿大学，最近几年中，足有四分之一的学生发现：他们无法从事人文学科课程的学习。

The study finds that one quarter to one half of all women who had been physically assaulted by their partners said that they had suffered physical injuries as a direct result.

研究查明，有四分之一至二分之一遭受其伴侣侵犯人身的妇女说，作为必然结果，她们蒙受身体伤害。

One example that we did, in particular, was to compute the double integral of a quarter of a unit disk.

我们已经做过的一个例子是，计算四分之一单位圆上的二重积分。

The total GM IPO will represent at least one quarter of the company, the source said, but added that Friday's filing will be for a nominal amount, below the eventual amount to be raised.

同时，消息人士还透露，通用IPO总规模会达到公司至少四分之一市值水平，但本周五提交的申请当中只是要求进行象征性的公开募股，不过最终IPO规模会逐渐扩大。

Four out of five participants reported that their organizations had dedicated at least one-quarter of a full-time staff member's hours to social networking.

五分之四的调查参与者称他们至少在社交网络中投入了一位全职员工的四分之一工时。