Given the current divorce rate of nearly 50 percent, that amounts to millions of cases in the United States every year – a virtual epidemic of failed conversation.
鉴于目前的离婚率接近50%，这意味着美国每年有数百万起离婚案例——一种沟通失败的近乎流行病式的危机。
nearly 50 percent of recent divorces are caused by failed conversation
近 50%的近期离婚是沟通失败引起的。
Who would have thought that, globally, the IT industry produces about the same volume of greenhouse gases as the world’s airlines do – roughly 2 percent of all CO2 emissions?
谁能想到，全球IT行业产生的温室气体量与全球航空业相当——约占全球二氧化碳排放量的2%？
Psychologists at the University of Toronto found that viewing a fast-food logo for just a few milliseconds primes us to read 20 percent faster, even though reading has little to do with eating.
多伦多大学的心理学家发现，仅仅在几毫秒内看到快餐标志，就会让我们阅读速度提高20%，尽管阅读与进食几乎无关。
But historically we have spent about 12 percent of our days contemplating the longer term.
但从历史上看，我们每天大约有12%的时间用于思考更长远的问题。
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。