大洲

饥荒可能会导致该大洲人口剧减。

The famine threatened to depopulate the continent .

谈话涉及了这类餐馆的吸引人之处、男人的弱点，还有为什么只用15分钟就跨越了一个大洲。

The conversation ranged over the desirability of such restaurants , the shortcomings of men , and why it had only taken 15 minutes to cross a continent .

银行的业务范围是全球性的，活动遍布于所有五大洲的43个国家。

The bank 's scope is worldwide , in forty three countries on all the five continents .

驻扎在南极洲涉及到适应地球上最干、风最大及最寒冷的大洲，然而每个国家都设法使自己感觉在家一样。

Being stationed in Antarctica involves adapting to life on the planet 's driest , windiest and coldest continent , yet each nation manages to make itself at home .

随着各国坚持自己的主张，乔治国王岛的研究站提供了一次机会，一窥在冰川覆盖的大洲上的耗时游戏，削弱了美国、英国、澳大利亚以及新西兰这些国家的长期统治。

The research stations on King George lsland offer a glimpse into the long game on this ice-blanketed continent as nations assert themselves , eroding the sway long held by countries like the United States , Britain . Australia and New Zealand .

非洲是世界第二大洲。

Africa is the second largest continent in the world .

亚洲是第一大洲。

Asia is the biggest continent .

现在，科学家们已经研究了五大洲的多种语言，发现没有人比英国人表达感激之情的次数多。

Now scientists have looked at languages across five continents and found that officially no one expresses gratitude more than the British .

为了使你们对地球的大小有一个概念，我想要告诉你们：在发明电之前，在六个大洲上，为了点路灯，需要维持一支为数四十六万二千五百一十一人的真正大军。

To give you an idea of the size of the Earth , I will tell you that before the invention of electricity it was necessary to maintain , over the whole of the six continents , a veritable army of 462511 lamplighters for the street lamps .

球员离开欧洲俱乐部前往其他大洲并不是什么新鲜事，看看美国职业足球大联盟（MajorLeagueSoccer）。

Players leaving European clubs and heading to different continents is nothing new , look at Major League Soccer .

新闻集团（newscorp）因电话窃听丑闻面临的压力正不断增大，在三个大洲均遭遇了新的法律与政治挑战。

Pressure on News Corp over its phone hacking scandal is rising on three continents with fresh legal and political challenges .

芭拉是第一位执掌跨国汽车制造商的女性，管理着通用汽车（GM，《财富》500强）设在六大洲的396家工厂和21.2万名员工。

The first woman to run a global automaker , Barra oversees more than 212,000 employees in 396 GM facilities on six continents .

欧盟（EU）成立的初衷是为了令一个遭到战争破坏的大洲团结起来，如今它已失去了使命感，部分原因是那场战争正在被人遗忘。

The European Union , built to unite a continent destroyed by war , has lost its sense of mission partly because the war is being forgotten .

儿童心理学家、伦敦安娜•弗洛伊德中心（AnnaFreudCentre）的首席执行官彼得•福纳吉（PeterFonagy）几十年来因为工作关系经常出差，去过很多大洲。

Peter Fonagy , a child psychoanalyst and chief executive of the Anna Freud Centre in London , has travelled extensively over several decades and many continents for his career .

如果我们能够取得主办权，我的足球学校将会到访FIFA的各大洲成员地区，这让我感到很高兴。

I 'm glad that my Academy will visit each FIFA Confederation every year , should we win the right to host the World Cup .

G20对成员资格没有明确的标准，但只有各大洲的大国才有资格加入最初的名单是美国1999年拟定的。

The G20 has no clear criteria of membership , only that big countries from different continents , originally selected by the US in 1999 , should participate .

亚洲国家应通过APEC、亚欧会议和东亚-拉美合作论坛等渠道，进一步加强与各大洲国家的合作。

Instead , Asian countries should further enhance their cooperation with countries of other continents through such channels as APEC , ASEM and East Asia-Latin America Forum .

调查公司mercer根据六大洲143个城市的外国移民的生活成本来进行这个一年一度的调查。

The latest annual survey by research firm Mercer measures the cost of living for expatriates in 143 cities in countries on six continents .

为了获得前往巴西参赛的资格，来自六大洲的203支国家队进行了两年半的争夺；而参与瑞典“独立足球联盟世界杯”（ConifaWorldCup）的国家队，却没有得到足球运动的管理机构国际足联（FIFA）的认可。

As 203 national teams fought a two-and-a-half-year battle across six continents to qualify for Brazil , the Swedish tournament , called the Conifa World Cup , was played by national teams not recognized by FIFA , the sport 's governing body .

在之后的七年多时间里，Aspire在全球东奔西跑，测试了三大洲的350万年轻运动员，精心挑选出其中最有前途的男孩。

More than seven years later , Aspire has screened 3.5 million young athletes across three continents and cherry-picked the most promising boys for odysseys that have spanned the globe .

巴克莱也很可能不是最后一家被罚的银行：针对利率操纵的调查已涉及三个大洲的监管机构，调查对象是20多家参与Libor设定过程的银行。

Nor is it likely to be the last : investigations into interest-rate rigging involve regulators from three continents , looking at more than 20 banks involved in the rate-setting process .

Begg说，无论结果如何，任何一个大洲想复苏都绝非易事。

No matter what the outcome , it will not be easy for either continent to recover , says Begg .

毛茛科白头翁属（Pulsatilla）分布于北温带，全世界约60余种，主产欧、亚两大洲，我国有11种。

Pulsatilla is a large genus of c. 60 species , distributed mainly all over Europe and Asia . There are 11 species in our country .

只有卡洛斯•戈恩，作为横跨两个大洲的汽车联盟雷诺-日产（Renault-Nissan）的掌门人，拥有成为国际名人的气场和毅力。

Only Carlos Ghosn , he of the two-continent Renault-Nissan alliance , has the wattage and the willpower for global star power .

根据美国、英国和瑞士监管机构提交的文件，瑞银（ubs）在三大洲的交易员和经理曾利用电话、网上聊天室以及电子邮件，几乎每日操纵五种货币的基准利率。

Ubstraders and managers on three continents used phone calls , electronic chat rooms and emails to manipulate benchmark interest rates in five currencies on an almost daily basis , according to documents filed by us , UK and Swiss authorities .

据招股说明书披露的内部估算，今年4月阿里巴巴对自身估值高达1210亿美元，不过，IPO的最终估值可能受到内部业绩、以及市场与投资者对一场跨三大洲路演的反应的影响。

According to its internal estimates disclosed in the prospectus , Alibaba in April valued itself at up to $ 121bn , though the final valuations at its IPO could be swayed by internal performance , the market and investor reaction to a roadshow spanning three continents .

在选择研究对象时，首先确定了综合国力名列前15名的国家，其次筛选分布在世界各大洲的国家，然后去掉没有WebOPAC服务以及非独立办馆的国家图书馆。

While choosing research topic , I made sure to consider the top 15 nations in terms of national power , and select the nations in each continents , and disregard those libraries that don 't have Web OPAC systems and that were not built independently by themselves .

他的Tap-O-Meter仅用一个月就获得了批准，赢得六大洲40多名同事的支持。

His tap-o-meter took just one month to get the green light , backed by about 40 fans on six continents .

四肢截肢的PhillipeCroizon宣布他将在明年游遍世界五个大洲。

Quadruple amputee Phillipe Croizon has announced that he 'll brave some of the world 's most treacherous waters next year as he swims between five continents .

中国卤虫（Artemiasinica）隶属于节肢动物门甲壳纲，除南极外在世界各大洲均有分布，在中国主要分布于沿海各省、市、自治区盐田以及内陆咸水湖中。

Brine shrimp ( Artemia sinica ) is a genius of aquatic crustaceans in the phylum Arthropoda . It exists widely in all continents except Antarctica globally and mainly discovered in saltern in coastal provinces as well as inland saline lakes in China .