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“An average extension will probably see around £3,000 additional cost thanks to the new regs.”

“由于新规，一次普通的扩建可能会增加大约3000英镑的费用。”

But all too often such policies are an insincere form of virtue-signaling that benefits only the most privileged and does little to help average people.

但这类政策往往只是一种虚伪的道德作秀，只让最有特权的人受益，对普通人几乎毫无帮助。

Next time somebody pushes corporate quotas as a way to promote gender equity, remember that such policies are largely self-serving measures that make their sponsors feel good but do little to help average women.

下次再有人推行企业配额制作为促进性别平等的方式时，请记住，这类政策在很大程度上是自私自利的措施，只会让发起者自我感觉良好，对普通女性却几乎毫无帮助。

Rather officials must avoid double standards, or different types of access for average people and the wealthy.

相反，官员必须避免双重标准，即对普通人和富人给予不同类型的接触机会。

inspire hopes in average people.

激发普通人的希望。

The average supermarket, according to the Food Marketing Institute, carries some 44,000 different items, and many carry tens of thousands more.

据食品营销协会称，一般的超市有大约4.4万种不同的商品，许多超市还要多出数万种。

It found that infants had an average of 14 alloparents a day by the time they were 18 weeks old, and were passed between caregivers eight times an hour.

研究发现，婴儿长到18周大时，平均每天有14位异亲照料者，且每小时要在照料者之间传递八次。

The industry also claims that people who lay fake grass spend an average of £500 on trees or shrubs for their garden, which provides habitat for insects.

该行业还声称，铺设假草坪的人平均会花500英镑为花园购买树木或灌木，这为昆虫提供了栖息地。

Today, 28 percent of graduates in the UK are in non-graduate roles, a percentage which is double the average among OECD countries.

如今，英国28%的大学毕业生从事的是无需大学学历的工作，这一比例是经合组织国家平均水平的两倍。

This year’s rise, an average of 2.7 percent, may be a fraction lower than last year’s, but it is still well above the official Consumer Price Index (CPI) measure of inflation.

今年平均2.7%的涨幅或许比去年略低一点，但仍远高于官方用来衡量通胀的消费者价格指数（CPI）。

Between them, the five biggest tech companies have spent an average of only $3.4 billion a year on sub-$1 billion acquisitions over the past five years — a drop in the ocean compared with their massive financial reserves, and the more than $130 billion of venture capital that was invested in the US last year.

过去五年，这五家最大的科技公司平均每年在10亿美元以下的收购上总共只花了34亿美元——与它们庞大的财务储备以及去年在美国投入的1300多亿美元风险投资相比，这只是沧海一粟。

Grade inflation — the gradual increase in average GPAs (grade-point averages) over the past few decades — is often considered a product of a consumer era in higher education, in which students are treated like customers to be pleased.

分数膨胀——过去几十年来平均GPA（平均绩点）的逐步上升——常被认为是高等教育消费时代的产物，在这个时代，学生被当作需要取悦的顾客。

The average time for holding a stock in both the United States and Britain, he notes, has dropped from seven years to seven months in recent decades.

他指出，近几十年来，美国和英国的平均股票持有时间都从七年降到了七个月。

Grade inflation — the gradual increase in average GPAs (grade-point averages) over the past few decades — is often considered a product of a consumer era in higher education, in which students are treated like customers to be pleased.

分数膨胀——过去几十年来平均GPA（平均绩点）的逐步上升——常被认为是高等教育消费时代的产物，在这个时代，学生被当作需要取悦的顾客。

One survey found that bureaucratic delays led the average H-2A worker to arrive on the job 22 days late.

一项调查发现，官僚作风造成的延误导致H-2A工人平均晚22天到岗。

So they compared U.S. cities’ average happiness [measured] by Gallup polling with the investment activity of publicly traded firms in those areas.

于是他们将盖洛普民调{{6}}的美国各城市平均幸福度与这些地区上市公司的投资活动进行了比较。

This leaves today’s average law-school graduate with $100,000 of debt on top of undergraduate debts.

这使得如今法学院毕业生在本科债务之外平均还要背负10万美元的债务。

It seems most people would be better off if they could shorten their commutes to work, spend more time with friends and family and less of it watching television (something the average American spends a whopping two months a year doing, and is hardly jollier for it).

看起来，如果大多数人能缩短通勤时间，多花时间陪伴亲友、少花时间看电视（美国人平均每年在这上面花掉整整两个月，却几乎没有因此更快乐），他们的状况会更好。

on average

平均而言

Campgrounds are a tiny portion of the overall infrastructure backlog, and businesses in the parks hand over, on average, only about 5% of their revenues to the National Park Service.

露营地在全部基础设施积压项目中只占极小一部分，而且公园内的商家平均只把约5%的收入上缴给国家公园管理局。

on average

平均

Research by the World Economic Forum finds that on average 42 percent of the “core skills” within job roles will change by 2022.

世界经济论坛的研究发现，到2022年，各岗位中平均42%的“核心技能”将发生变化。

On average, participants who followed this instruction felt better than those who had been told to stand or sit in silence.

总体而言，按照这一指示去做的参与者比那些被要求默默站着或坐着的人感觉更好。

Across 18 trials each, the living rats were 52 percent more likely on average to set the social robot free than the asocial one.

在各18次试验中，活老鼠释放社交型机器鼠的可能性平均比释放非社交型机器鼠高出52%。