Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

十分之九的教育是鼓励。

About nine tenths of the light from the sun is absorbed by the atmosphere.

来自太阳的光约有十分之九被大气层吸收。

In China over nine tenths of the inhabitants belong to the Han nationality.

在中国十分之九以上的人口是汉族。

Talking with peer, even nine tenths sentences might be fake, there is one that is true.

因为跟同行聊天，虽然十句话有九句是假的，但是总有一句是真的。

There, they say, the mutation that existed in under a tenth of the population spread to nearly nine-tenths-because those with it survived far better than those without.

他们说，自此，本来存在于人口十分之一的基因突变扩展到将近十分十九——因为基因发生突变后的人更能适应新的环境。

With some 80% of Libya's territory and nine-tenths of its people under rebel control, the fall of any remaining pockets of loyalists is but a matter of time.

随着反对派控制了约80%的利比亚领土及十分之九的人口，所有效忠卡扎菲的残余飞地的陷落只是个时间上的问题。

The only explanation Dr Clark can think of is that the star must have somehow shed nine-tenths of its mass before it exploded as a supernova.

克拉克博士想到的唯一解释是这颗恒星在爆炸成超新星之前可能减少了十分之九的质量。

But recently executions in Singapore have fallen by nine-tenths.

然而，最近新加坡的死刑处决率下跌了十分之九。

The long march to literacy is nearing an end: three-quarters of people aged 15-25 were literate in 1975; now the rate is nearly nine-tenths.

消灭文盲的漫漫征途正日渐接近尾声：1975年时，年龄在15-25岁的人口中有四分之三能读会写；如今识字率已接近十分之九。

I went through the whole of it, though at least nine-tenths of the words were unknown to me.

尽管至少有十分之九的字词不认识，我还是看完了整本书。

But officials point out that nine-tenths of Egypt's 82m people are squeezed into the Nile valley, an area smaller than Denmark.

但官员指出，埃及8200万人口中十分之九挤在面积比丹麦还小的尼罗河谷内。

After all, households' interest income has fallen by almost nine-tenths since the early 1990s (see right-hand chart).

毕竟，家庭的利息收入从20实际90年代已经下降了接近90%(如右图)。

The Consumer price Index's 1% drop in a single month grabs headlines, but nine-tenths of that relates to falling food and energy prices.

10月份消费者价格指数下跌1%这一消息虽然一时间成了各家媒体的头条新闻，但这一跌幅十分之九要归因于食品和能源价格的下跌。

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -francis Crawford, American writer.

期待失败十有八九就会失败。—弗朗西斯·克劳福德，美国作家。

With the eyes nine-tenths closed, focus at the tip of your nose.

眼睛闭上十分之九，注意力集中在鼻尖。

Now we supply power to nine-tenths of the city's homes.

现在我们向这个城市十分之九的家庭提供了电力。

Eurasia encompasses two-fifths of the total land surface of the globe, and nine-tenths of the world's population.

欧亚大陆占地球五分之二的陆地和世界十分之九的人口。

One could probably live there for years without noticing that for nine-tenths of the people the reality of life is an endless back-breaking struggle to wring a little food out of an eroded soil.

一个人在那里生活许多年可能也发现不了十分之九的人都为了在贫瘠的土地上挤出一点点食物而整日辛劳，这才是他们真实的生活。

These days, by contrast, nine-tenths are for inventions that combine at least two codes.

相反的事，目前90%的发明包含了至少两个代码。

In the charge and in the melee, the trooper must remember that on the speed of his horse in attack, and on his own offensive spirit, rest nine-tenths of his chances of success.

在冲锋和混战中，骑兵必须牢记，他此战成功机率的90%取决于他骑马攻击的速度以及他进攻的意志。