A quarter of all the people surveyed were don't-knows.

参加问卷调查的所有人中有四分之一没有表示明确意见。

He has the backing of almost a quarter of the electorate.

他有将近四分之一的选民的支持。

A quarter of current inmates have committed violent crimes.

四分之一的在押囚犯实施过暴力犯罪。

Within a quarter of an hour, the coldness of the night had gone.

一刻钟之内，夜晚的寒冷就消退了。

August registrations have gone ballistic, accounting now for a quarter of the annual total.

八月份的登记数量大涨，现在占全年总量的四分之一。

A quarter of the students taking the course basic Football improved their sports skills.

参加基础足球课程的学生中有四分之一提高了他们的运动技能。

Every year, if people used just a quarter of that wasted food, the world hunger would end.

每年，如果人们只使用四分之一的被浪费的食物，世界饥饿问题就会结束。

In a quarter of an hour, the coach was back.

一刻钟后，马车回来了。

Car thefts account for a quarter of all recorded crime.

汽车盗窃占所有记录在案的犯罪的四分之一。

About a quarter of the adults have a good habit of running.

大约四分之一的成年人有良好的跑步习惯。

A quarter of America's public-sector workers have a university degree.

四分之一的美国公共部门员工拥有大学学位。

The "Empty Quarter" is a huge area of sand that covers about a quarter of the Arabian Peninsula.

“空白之地”是一大片沙地，覆盖了四分之一的阿拉伯半岛。

The children sampled spent a quarter of their rapidly decreasing "free time" watching television.

被抽样调查的儿童把他们迅速减少的“空闲时间”的四分之一都花在了看电视上。

Today, a quarter of college graduates make less than the typical worker without a bachelor's degree.

今天，有四分之一的大学毕业生收入低于没有学士学位的普通工人。

When you consider that equal a quarter of the world catch, you begin to see the sides of the problem.

当你想到这相当于世界上四分之一的捕鱼量时，你就会开始看到问题的方方面面。

But today, a quarter of college graduates make less than the typical worker without a bachelor's degree.

但是今天，四分之一的大学毕业生比没有学士学位的普通工人挣得少。

A quarter of students report that their use of digital devices during class causes their grades to suffer.

四分之一的学生报告说，在课上使用数码设备导致他们的成绩变差。

The report finds more than a quarter of the countries experienced flat or falling monthly wages in real terms.

报告发现，超过四分之一的国家实际月工资出现持平或下滑情况。

We took the steam train about a quarter of the way and then had a driver meet us and went by road for the rest.

我们乘坐蒸汽火车走了大约四分之一的路程，然后见到了约好的司机，由他开车带我们走完其余的里程。

A quarter of the world's energy—including two-thirds of the annual production of oil—is used for transportation.

世界上四分之一的能源——包括石油年产量的三分之二——都用于运输。

Prices went up an extra 3p on a pint of milk, 15p on a quarter of a pound of butter and 15p on a half pound of cheese.

一品脱牛奶的价格上涨了3便士，四分之一磅黄油上涨了15便士，半磅奶酪上涨了15便士。

The fact that there is an iced coffee on the market with over a quarter of a woman's daily calories allowance is alarming.

市场上有一种冰咖啡，其热量超过女性每日卡路里摄入量的四分之一，这一事实令人担忧。

A quarter of all sea species spend at least a part of their life in a reef and many reefs are in cold or temperate waters.

四分之一的海洋物种在珊瑚礁中度过了它们一生中至少一半的时间，而且很多珊瑚礁处于寒冷或温和的水中。

At senior levels, only a quarter of professors are women, and black women make up less than 2% of all female academic staff.

在高级职称中，只有四分之一的教授是女性，黑人女性在所有女性学术人员中所占比例不到2%。

It has consequences: South Africa's ongoing drought—the worst in three decades—will cost at least a quarter of its corn crop this year.

它的后果是：南非持续的干旱——三十年来最严重的干旱——将导致它今年至少四分之一的玉米作物受损。

It produces nearly a quarter of the world's greenhouse gases each year and has stubbornly made it clear that it doesn't intend to do a whole lot about it.

它每年产生全球近四分之一的温室气体，并顽固地表明它不打算为此做什么。

A century later the picture was completely different: by then, the world had an electric industry, and a quarter of its generating capacity was water powered.

一个世纪后，情况完全不同了：这时，世界上已经有了电力工业，其四分之一的发电量是水力驱动的。

One team of psychologists discovered that two thirds of men and a quarter of women would rather self-administer electric shocks than sit alone with their thoughts for 15 minutes.

一组心理学家发现，三分之二的男性和四分之一的女性宁愿自己接受电击，也不愿独自坐着思考15分钟。

The author George Comstock suggested that less than a quarter of children between the ages of six and eight years old understood standard disclaimers used in many toy advertisements.

作者乔治·康斯托克指出，在6岁至8岁的儿童中，能够理解许多玩具广告中使用的标准免责声明的人数不到四分之一。

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。