Quotas get action: they “open the way to equality and they break through the glass ceiling,” according to Reding, a result seen in France and other countries with legally binding provisions on placing women in top business positions.
配额制度推动了行动，”Reding表示，“它们为实现平等开辟了道路并突破了玻璃天花板，”这一结果在法国和其他具有法律约束力规定女性担任高层职位的国家已经显现。
When women do break through to the summit of corporate power – as, for example, Sheryl Sandberg recently did at Facebook – they attract massive attention precisely because they remain the exception to the rule.
当女性最终突破到企业权力的顶峰——比如，谢丽尔·桑德伯格最近在Facebook所做的那样——她们会吸引大量关注，正是因为她们仍然是这一规则的例外。
Tronick believes that just because a child isn’t learning from the screen doesn’t mean there’s no value to it – particularly if it gives parents time to have a shower, do housework or simply have a break from their child.
Tronick认为，仅仅因为孩子没有从屏幕中学习，并不意味着它没有价值——尤其是当它给父母时间洗澡、做家务或只是暂时离开孩子。
Called conditional cash transfers or CCTs, these social assistance programs are designed to reduce inequality and break the cycle of poverty.
这些被称为有条件现金转移（CCTs）的社会援助计划旨在减少不平等并打破贫困的循环。
Water bottles, shopping bags, and other trash litter the planet, from Mount Everest to the Mariana Trench, because plastics are everywhere and don't break down easily.
水瓶、购物袋和其他垃圾遍布全球，从珠穆朗玛峰到马里亚纳海沟，这是因为塑料无处不在且不易分解。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。