1·Wine contains about 10% alcohol.
葡萄酒含有约10%的酒精。
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2·I got about half the answers right.
我的回答约有一半是正确的。
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3·A football weighs about 400 grams.
一个足球重约400克。
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4·It is about 76 kilos in weight.
这东西重约76千克。
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5·Voting began about two hours ago.
投票开始于约两个小时前。
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1·We talked plenty about our kids.
我们谈了很多关于孩子的事。
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2·He had a dream about Claire.
他做了一个关于克莱尔的梦。
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3·Her books are about village life.
她的书是关于乡村生活的。
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4·He invented some story about a cousin.
他们编造了一些关于一位表亲的谎话。
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5·He's written several books about India.
他写过几本关于印度的书。
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1·This arrangement peaked around 1940, when about 35% of the nation's 18-year-old to 34-year-old lived with mom or dad (compared with 32% in 2014).
这一安排在1940年左右达到顶峰，当时美国18岁至34岁的人口中约有35%与父母生活在一起（2014年为32%）。
2·They found that the average person's mind wandered most frequently about 65% of the time during personal activities, such as brushing their teeth and combing their hair.
他们发现，一般人在刷牙、梳头等个人活动中最常走神，约有65%的时间在走神。
3·About 4% of the prison population have chronic psychiatric illnesses.
约有百分之四的监狱犯人患有慢性精神疾病。
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4·About 1,200 personnel will remain behind to take care of the air base.
约有1200名人员将留下来照管空军基地。
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5·About 9% attempted to conceal "nonessential Internet use", and nearly 4% reported feeling "preoccupied by the Internet when offline".
约有9%的人试图隐瞒自己“非必要的上网行为”，近4%的人报告说，他们“离线时也感觉被网络占据着大脑”。
1·We finally went to bed at about 4am.
我们最后在凌晨四点左右上了床。
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2·We're leaving round about ten.
我们十点钟左右出发。
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3·The theatre has seating for about 500 people.
这家剧院可坐500人左右。
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4·The skeleton has been dated at about 2000 BC.
这骨架的年代为公元前2000年左右。
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5·The clock is about two and a half minutes slow.
那钟慢两分半左右。
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1·He was of two minds about this plan.
他对于这个计划犹豫不决。
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2·Larry said he had no regrets about retiring.
拉里曾说他对于退休没有任何遗憾。
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3·I had grave misgivings about making the trip.
对于这次旅行我有过极大的顾虑。
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4·This raises doubts about the point of advertising.
这引起了人们对于广告作用的怀疑。
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5·I'm under no illusions about what hard work this will be.
对于这项工作的辛苦，我从不存错误的幻想。
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1·The nearest town is about ten miles upstream.
最近的城镇大约在沿河向上十英里处。
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2·Between about 1650 and 1740, the population in Britain was static.
大约在1650年到1740年之间，英国的人口是稳定的。
3·Humans arrived in the Kaliko Islands about 7,000 years ago, and within 3,000 years most of the large mammal species that had lived in the forests of the Kaliko Islands were extinct.
人类大约在7000年前到达加里科群岛，在3000年内，生活在加里科群岛森林中的大型哺乳动物物种大部分灭绝。
4·The disappearance of megafauna in America—mammoths, saber-toothed cats, giant sloths, among others—happened relatively soon after the arrival of human beings, about 13,000 years ago.
美洲巨型动物的消失——猛犸象、剑齿猫、巨型树懒等等——发生在人类出现后不久，大约在一万三千年前。
5·About that time, Tony Inglis' engineering and transport company got the job to remove phone boxes from the streets and sell them out.
大约在那个时候，托尼·英格利斯的工程和运输公司得到了一份工作，把电话亭从街上搬走并卖掉。
1·"You shall see, " replied the Ogre, and in an instant, he became a mouse and began to scamper about the floor.
“让你见识一下。”怪物回答说，不一会儿，他就变成了一只老鼠，开始在地上快速地跑着。
2·All of them have worked fine so far with no oversleeping, and on average I will awaken remembering a dream about 15 minutes after lying down.
目前来说还没有因此发生睡过头的问题。平均来说，躺下后，我都能在15分钟内醒来，而且还做了个小梦。
3·This strategy is about connecting objects to the Internet and applying intelligence and services on top of that.
该战略是在将物(实际的物体)与因特网相互连接，并在此基础上赋予其智慧与服务。
4·Studies on blocking have shown that around half of the time we will become 'unblocked' after about a minute. The rest of the time it may take days to recover the memory.
对于阻塞问题的研究表明，大约有一半的时侯我们的记忆会在一分钟之后变得畅通，而其他时侯我们则需要几天的时间来恢复记忆的畅通。
5·This year I did make some big decisions about my career and got accepted into a great school.
今年我在工作上做了一些重大的决定，并且被一所很好的大学录取了。
1·You may not think a bagel tastes salty, but a typical 4-inch (10-centimeter) oat-bran bagel has about 532 mg of sodium.
你可能觉得百吉饼尝起来不咸，但一块典型的4英寸（10厘米）大的燕麦百吉饼却含将近532毫克的钠。
2·About a thousand formations have been documented.
将近1000种构造已经被记录在册。
3·He prefers not to disclose his real name because, he insists, his wife and daughter have no idea that he has appeared in about 350 films over the past 14 years.
他宁愿不要透露自己的真实姓名，因为他坚持认为，妻子和女儿完全不知道在过去14年中他参演了将近350部片子。
4·When the page cache was moved into its own pool, the cache misses dropped about 50%.
当该页面缓存转移到其自己的池之后，缓存未命中降低了将近50%。
5·For example, you may not think a bagel tastes salty, but a typical 4-inch (10-centimeter) oat-bran bagel has about 532 mg of sodium, and even a slice of whole-wheat bread contains 132 mg of sodium.
例如百吉饼或许尝起来不咸，但一块普普通通的4英寸(10厘米)大的燕麦百吉饼却含将近532毫克的钠，而且即便一小块全麦面包也有132毫克钠。