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quarter

英 ['kwɔːtə] 美['kwɔrtɚ]

英英释义同义词辨析考试真题实用场景例句

n. 四分之一；地区；季度；一刻钟；两角五分；节
vi. 住宿；驻扎
vt. 将…四等分；供某人住宿
num. 四分之一

考试真题

A quarter of this year's American grain harvest will be used to produce bio-fuel for cars.

Marriott had its worst quarter ever, with revenues per room falling by 25%.

reduced his revenues to a quarter of normal years

Mm, I think 16, but 3 quarters of them are women.

The company spent the last five years developing solar panels that are only about a quarter of an inch thick and are strong enough to stand up to heavy highway traffic without breaking or making the roads more slippery.

This prompted the company to cut its forecasts for the full fourth quarter.

More than a quarter of children live in single-parent households—a historic high, according to Pew—and these children are three times as likely to live in poverty as those who live with married parents.

Less than an hour away by snowmobile, Chinese labourers have updated the Great Wall Station, a vital part of China's plan to operate five bases on Antarctica, complete with an indoor badminton court and sleeping quarters for 150 people.

A study of employees at health insurance provider Aetna revealed that roughly one quarter of those taking in-office yoga and mindfulness classes reported a 28% reduction in their stress levels and a 20% improvement in sleep quality.

According to the Centre for Strategic and International Studies,about three quarter of energy we use to move things, including ourselves, accomplishes no useful work.

That same study found that randomly assigned interracial roommates at Ohio State broke up before the end of the quarter about twice as often as same-race roommates.

We've had more people booking in the first quarter of this year than last," says Hubert Moineau, founder of Tselana Travel, which is planning to introduce a new program of longer adventure trips, including polar expeditions and cruises in the Galápagos.

The fact that there is an iced coffee on the market with over a quarter of a woman's daily calories allowance is alarming," Dr Rachel Thompson, science programme manager at London-based WCRF, said in a widely-reported statement.

4 million working days were lost to work related stress last year, a jump of nearly a quarter.

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

A study of employees at health insurance provider Aetna revealed that roughly one quarter of those taking in-office yoga and mindfulness classes reported a 28% reduction in their stress levels and a 20% improvement in sleep quality.

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

More than 20 years after the internet was opened to commerce, the Census Bureau tells us that brick and mortar sales accounted for 92.3 percent of retail sales in the first quarter of 2016.

Sure enough, the Census Bureau just released data showing that online retail sales surged 15.2 percent between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016.

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

During my first quarter at university of California, riverside ucr, I thought that I wanted to study political science with its focus on international affairs, so that's what I applied for.

During my first quarter, I spoke directly to the chancellor, asking him for support towards my initiatives, met with the vice chancellors.

If they tell you otherwise, they're lying and will probably change what they want to purse within the first quarter of attendance.

It's much faster, for example, to shop for groceries at a quarter to three than to stand in line during the after-work rush.

That's a quarter-hour more you could be sleeping if you bought a coffee maker with a timer.

Of all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century,perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage.

In the third quarter, CEO turnover was down 23% from a year ago as nervous boards stuck with the leaders they had, according to Liberum Research.

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

The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century-the period when the United States emerged as an international power.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, nearly a quarter of web content shared by Twitter users in the politically critical state of Michigan was fake news, according to the University of Oxford.

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

About a quarter of all Italian immigrants, for example, eventually returned to Italy for good.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, nearly a quarter of web content shared by Twitter users in the politically critical state of michigan was fake news, according to the University of Oxford.

nitrogen-oxide emissions during the cruising portions of the flight fell by around a quarter.

The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first