Each time he convinced himself that the waves could not possibly get bigger , a new monster taller than then rest lifted the vessel toward the sky

每当他自我安慰地想海浪不会再加大时,就会有一个更大的浪头把船抛到半空。

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When a car gets closer it seems to get bigger .

汽车驶近时,看起来要比较大一些。

属类：综合句库--

1:Founded in 1997, HTC started out mostly doing contract manufacturing for other gadget-sellers.2:But as it has gained confidence in making smartphones under its own brand, it has steadily risen up mobile operators’ lists of the handsets they promote to subscribers.3:By April this year it had a bigger market capitalisation than troubled Nokia.4:The firm’s success has pushed Cher Wang, its chairwoman and largest shareholder, to the top of Forbes’s Taiwan rich list, passing Terry Gou, the boss of Hon Hai.5:HTC has kept much of its production in Taiwan whereas Hon Hai (also known as Foxconn) has shifted it to mainland China and stuck with contract manufacturing—a business that emphasises cost-trimming and low value-added.6:HTC has shown remarkable speed in building new products, adapting to changing telecoms standards and developing its own applications software.7:And its manufacturing quality has been remarkably high.8:Unlike rivals HTC has not suffered unpleasant headlines about shoddy products or suicides at its factories.9:It has made progress in building a brand that reflects innovation and trust, allowing it to escape from the low-cost treadmill on which some of its peers remain stuck.

1:创始于1997年，HTC以给其他配件销售商做代工起家。2:但是当它从自己名下品牌的智能机制造获得自信以后，它就逐渐出现在服务商给其客户的手机宣传名单中。3:到今年四月，它已经拥有了比麻烦缠身的诺基亚更高的市值。4:这家公司的成功，使得它的女董事长以及最大股东，王雪红，超过鸿海公司的老板郭台铭，成为台湾福布斯的首富。5:HTC保持了它在台湾的产能，而鸿海（也作“富士康”）则移至大陆，并坚持代工——这是一项强调成本控制的行业，而且附加值很低。6:HTC以令人瞩目的速度制造新的产品、适应不断变化的电信产业标准和开发自己的应用软件。7:它的制造质量也是十分良好的。8:不像它的竞争对手，HTC已经在它的工厂产出劣质产品和自杀事件的报道中吃了亏。9:它在建立反映创新和信赖的品牌方面有所进步，使得它可以从低成本单调的工作中逃离出来，而那些正是它的一些同辈们苦苦支撑的。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-HTC使用安卓系统 面临巨额赔偿的控诉

1:Little actual cash will be proffered in Durban: progress will be limited to working out the details of the fund’s design, including the relative powers of donors and recipients, and to its possible role in wooing investment.2:Even this is contentious, as America wants a bigger role for the private sector.3:But such spats should prove surmountable.4:Alongside progress on another promised institution, to spread green technology to poor countries, the fund is Durban’s likeliest success.

1:德班会谈会提供更少的现金，此次取得的进步仅限于制定出这笔资金计划用途的细节，包括捐赠国和受赠国的相对实力对比，以及它在吸引投资中可能起到的作用。2:美国想在“私有部门”中起到更大的作用，尽管这使这笔款项还存在争议，但是这样的小吵小闹还是可以平息的。3:加上另外一个前途光明的机构所取得的进步，他们会一起把绿色技术延伸到经济落后国家。4:这项资金的建立是德班会谈最有可能取得的成功。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-联合国气候变化会谈 Climate-change

1:That the past role of crocodiles (or, strictly, crocodilians, since they came in many sizes and shapes, not all of which resemble the modern animals) has been underestimated was suggested a few years ago by Paul Sereno.2:Dr Sereno, a palaeontologist at the University of Chicago, uncovered a crocodile-dominated ecosystem from about 100m years ago (the middle of the Cretaceous period), in what is now north Africa.3:Besides water-dwelling giants similar to (though much bigger than) today’s animals, he found a range of forms including vegetarians and species that ran on elongated legs—more like dogs than crocodiles.4:That discovery has prompted other fossil hunters to look elsewhere.5:As a result, even the well-studied rocks of North America are revealing that dinosaurs did not have it all their own way in the ecosystems of the Mesozoic—as Stephanie Drumheller of the University of Iowa and Clint Boyd of the University of Texas at Austin explained to the meeting.

1:几年前，芝加哥大学古生物学家保罗?赛伦诺博士提出鳄鱼过去的角色（或者从严格意义上讲是鳄鱼目动物，因为它们形状大小各异，并非所有都类似现代鳄鱼）被低估了，在今天的北非，他发现了一个一亿年前（白垩纪中期）由鳄鱼占主导地位的生态系统。2:除了与现代鳄鱼同为水生巨兽外（但远比现代的大），他还发现了一系列包括食草的、用长腿行走的——比起鳄鱼来更像狗的种群及形态。3:这一发现促使其他化石探寻者着眼于其它地方。4:结果是，即便是那些出自北美的已经研究得很透彻的化石也显示出恐龙并非占据中生代生态系统全部位置。5:——正如衣阿华大学的斯蒂芬妮?庄姆海勒以及位于奥斯汀的德克萨斯大学的克林特?博依德在会上说的那样。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-谁吃了恐龙 What Ate Dinosaurs?

1: That may be less lucrative than it hoped for, but do not shed any tears for Cheng Yu-tung, the firm’s billionaire boss. 2: The weakness of this deal (which would still rank as one of the bigger placements this year) has more to do with market turmoil than any specific snags confronting CTF. 3: Though almost unknown in the West, the firm is a goliath, with a reported $4.5 billion in sales last year, leaping ahead at a rate of over 50% a year. It is already more than twice the size of Tiffany & Co, a posh American jeweller. 4: A recent analysis by George Washington University and L2, a think-tank, found the brand is better known in China than Rolex, Bulgari or Tiffany.

1:那或许没有“周大福”期望的那么有利可图，但不要为其亿万富翁老板郑裕彤掉一滴眼泪。2:股票发行有所削减（仍然是今年较大的一次发行），更多的是受市场波动的影响，而不是由于“周太福”本身的任何具体问题。3:尽管西方对“周大福”几乎一无所知，但这家公司是头巨鳄。据报道它去年的销售额为45亿美元，以一年超过50%的速率跳跃式发展，其规模已是一流的美国珠宝商蒂芙尼的两倍还多。4:近期由乔治?华盛顿大学和智库L2作出的分析发现，在中国，“周大福”这一品牌的知名度超过“劳力士”、“宝格丽”和“蒂芙尼”。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-世界最大珠宝商"周大福"上市

1: Absent a complete meltdown, the second dip of a “double-dip” recession ought to be smaller than the first, because there are fewer excesses to correct. 2: Britain’s current-account deficit is closer to balance. 3: The household savings rate is a healthy 7.2%, which means consumers have a bigger cushion between their income and spending than they did when recession first struck in 2008. 4: There is less capital spending to cut back on: companies are already sitting on piles of cash. 5: And the flow of capital seeking a haven from the euro crisis will sustain demand for British government bonds, for fancy houses, and for other assets deemed to be safer than euro-zone banks or bonds. 6: Real household income is likely to rise modestly in 2012 after falling sharply this year because of high inflation and tax increases, notes Kevin Daly of Goldman Sachs.

1:英国并未和欧元区完全融合，而且在这次的危机中，英国也没有什么要纠正的失职失误。因此，这一轮的衰退应该比上一次状况要好。2:而且目前的英国账务赤字接近于均衡。3:家庭储蓄率也达7.2%。相对2008年的衰退来说，在此健康的利率下，消费者在收入和花销之间有相对更大的缓冲货币。4:资本支出削减程度也更加有限，而且企业界现在也存有大量的现金。5:同时，流动资本也在寻找这轮危机中的避风港。资本将会维持对于英国政府债务，奢华的住宅以及一些其他资产的需求，在这些领域投资要比欧洲银行的债务要安全得多。6:由于高通胀以及税收的增加，不动产收益讲可能在2012年有平稳增长。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-英国将面临下一轮衰退

[B] Vivendi could get bigger portion and better management resources from Activision.

[B]Vivendi公司可以从Activision公司那里获得更大的份额和更好的管理资源。

属类：英汉句库-blog.hjenglish.com-

"This is only going to get bigger , in our opinion, " she said.

“我们认为，市场份额只会越来越大，”她补充。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

The president said the public dislikes the idea of helping the financial sector, only to see the hole get bigger because of lavish spending.

奥巴马说，公众不喜欢去救助金融部门，认为只会看到钱消失得更快，因为其巨额的花费。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

And the Chinese market is only going to get bigger .

除此之外，中国市场还在发展壮大之中。

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As they get bigger and they can balance better, they can do different stunts and I in turn get stronger and fitter.

当他们长大点，他们的平衡力更好的时候，他们会做不同的特技，我也变得越来越强壮、健康。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

Knowing the distribution of dark energy tells astronomers that the Universe will continue to get bigger indefinitely.

对暗能量分布的认知告诉天文学家宇宙将继续无限制地变大。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

The problem starts out small. If you fail to take care of the problem, it will get bigger and bigger, then it will pummel you.

毁灭之路就如同那个雪球，开始时问题很小，如果你没能好好解决这个问题，它就会变得越来越严重，接着它会把你击倒。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

If cells get bigger and more energetic, they need more copies of these mitochondrial genes to stay alive.

如果细胞变得更大、更有活力，它们则需要更多的拷贝这些线粒体基因来维持生计。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

Going public allowed investment banks to get bigger , which then gave them the heft to mold the regulatory system to their liking.

上市让投行们变得更加规模庞大，这让他们有足够的分量来按自己的喜好塑造监管系统。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

Soldiers talked up the threat to get bigger budgets and more sophisticated weapons.

士兵们则把威胁挂在嘴上，以求获得更多的预算和更先进的武器。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

Digital images are massive, and they get bigger and bigger and bigger every year.

数字图像是非常大的，并且还在逐年加大。

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As engagements get bigger and more complex, it becomes more important to adhere to standards within a team environment.

随着工作量的增大及变得更加复杂，在一个小组环境中遵守标准就变得更加重要。

属类：IT行业-www.ibm.com-

As stock-, derivatives and bond markets get bigger , investors are shifting money into an array of tradable financial products.

随着股票、衍生品、债券市场的发展，投资者不断把钱转换成可交易的金融产品。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

As fund management groups get bigger , high rates of growth become harder to achieve.

随着基金管理集团的规模不断扩大，高增长率将越来越难以实现。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

As the database ages, performance can slowly degrade as tables get bigger , usage patterns change, and workload volume increases.

随着数据库的老化，性能将逐渐下降，因为表会越来越大，使用模式也发生了变化，并且工作量也有所增加。

属类：IT行业-www.ibm.com-

As the planes get bigger and more efficient, more and more work will be found for them to do.

随着这种飞机体积的增加和效率的提高，还会有越来越多的工作等待它们去做。

属类：综合句库--

As that happens their stakes in companies will naturally get bigger , which could give them more board seats and a bigger say.

他们持有的企业股份将随之增加，从而使其在董事会中拥有更多席位及更大发言权。

属类：英汉句库-cn.reuters.com-

"I've had all the fun I can stand in the investment banking business, " he said. "To get bigger in it is not something I want to do. "

他说，“我已拥有在投资银行业我所能享受的所有乐趣，在这个行业扩大规模不是我想要的。”

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Will they get bigger , more frequent, neither, or both?

它们会更大、更频繁，都不是，或二者兼有之？

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

When those companies get bigger , Microsoft is betting that they'll keep using its software as paying customers.

微软希望这些企业成长壮大之后，能继续使用这些软体，成为付费用户。

属类：英汉句库-www.ebigear.com-

The debt problem would only get bigger , it warned.

文章警告，美国的债务问题只会变得更大。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

Think small and act small, and we'll get bigger . Think big and act big, and we'll get smaller.

小处着眼，小处着手，我们将越做越大；大处着眼，大处着手，我们将越做越小。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

Ergo, any internet company with a decent market share now is bound to get bigger and more profitable.

因此，任何有着可观市场份额的中国互联网公司都肯定会越来越壮大，盈利能力越来越强。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-