At its peak in 2007 it was worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics, a research firm – double the figure five years earlier.
据研究公司Arts Economics的创始人克莱尔·麦克安德鲁估算，2007年该市场达到顶峰时价值约为650亿美元，是五年前数字的两倍。
Toyota Motor, for example, alleviated some of the damage from its recall crisis earlier this year with a relatively quick and well-orchestrated social-media response campaign, which included efforts to engage with consumers directly on sites such as Twitter and the social-news site Digg.
例如，丰田汽车公司今年早些时候通过相对迅速且组织良好的社交媒体回应活动，缓解了部分召回危机带来的损害，其中包括在 Twitter 和社交新闻网站 Digg 等平台上直接与消费者互动的努力。
But we are now knowledgeable enough to reduce many of the risks that threatened the existence of earlier humans, and to improve the lot of those to come.
但我们现在拥有足够的知识，可以减少许多曾威胁早期人类生存的风险，并改善后代人的生活状况。
If the bar exam is truly a stern enough test for a would-be lawyer, those who can sit it earlier should be allowed to do so.
如果律师资格考试确实是对一个未来律师足够严格的测试，那么那些可以更早参加考试的人就应该被允许这样做。
The younger they learn how computers think, how to coax the machine into producing what they want – the earlier they learn that they have the power to do that – the better.
他们越早学习计算机是如何思考的，如何引导机器生成他们想要的结果——越早意识到他们拥有这种能力——就越有好处。
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。