六级While alternative estimates of the damage from carbon emissions differ, and it's especially hard to reckon the likely costs of possible catastrophic climate events, most estimates suggest substantial negative effects.

虽然对碳排放造成的损害的其他估计各不相同，而且很难估算可能发生的灾难性气候事件的可能成本，但大多数估计都表明了巨大的负面影响。

六级With little else to go on, they were asked to estimate Mr.Williams's salary, professional standing, and educational background.

在没有其他事情可做的情况下，他们被要求估算威廉姆斯先生的工资、职业地位和教育背景。

四级He estimated that the comfort level will increase considerably in five to ten years3) One dog has been killed and multiple dogs have been injured by a snowmobile driver in what appears to be an intentional attack on competitors in the Iditarod Race in Alaska.

他估计，舒适度将在五到十年内大幅提高3）一名雪地摩托车手杀死了一只狗，打伤了多只狗，这似乎是在阿拉斯加州的伊迪塔罗德比赛中对参赛者的蓄意攻击。

六级It is estimated that extreme weather conditions have endangered the lives of millions of African children.

据估计，极端天气条件已危及数百万非洲儿童的生命。

六级The department of Environmental Conservation estimates the optimum population at 60.

环境保护部估计最佳人口为60人。

六级A wandering mind! By one estimate, people daydream through nearly half of their waking hours?

心不在焉！据估计，人们会在醒着的时候做将近一半的白日梦吗？

六级Interest in this aspect of the settlement has focused on "orphan" works, where there is no known copyright holder – these make up an estimated 5-10% of the books Google has scanned

在和解协议的这一方面，人们的兴趣集中在“孤儿”作品上，这些作品没有已知的版权持有者。据估计，这些作品占谷歌扫描图书的5-10%

六级The WCRF has estimated that 19,000 cancers a year in Britain could be prevented if people lost their excess weight with growing evidence that excess body fat increases the risk of various cancers.

世界癌症研究基金会（WCRF）估计，如果人们减掉多余的体重，英国每年可以预防19000例癌症，越来越多的证据表明，过量的身体脂肪会增加患各种癌症的风险。

六级Former George Washington University president Stephen Trachtenberg estimates that a typical college uses its facilities for academic purposes a little more than half the calendar year.

乔治华盛顿大学前校长斯蒂芬·特雷斯登伯格（Stephen Trachtenberg）估计，一所典型的学院在一个日历年的一半多一点的时间里将其设施用于学术目的。

六级It's difficult to estimate the number of youngsters involved in home schooling where children are not sent to school and receive their formal education from one or both parents.

很难估计参与家庭教育的青少年人数，因为他们的孩子没有被送到学校接受父母一方或双方的正规教育。

六级And while assessments vary widely, geologists estimate that Antarctica holds at least 36 billion barrels of oil and natural gas.

尽管评估结果差异很大，但地质学家估计南极洲至少拥有360亿桶石油和天然气。

六级Energy Usage: Energy is an essential resource across the entire food production cycle, with estimates showing an average of 7-10 calories of input being required in the production of one calorie of food

能源使用：能源是整个食品生产周期的基本资源，据估计，生产一卡路里食品平均需要7-10卡路里的投入

六级Some scientists are examining the potential for harvesting icebergs form Antarctica, which is estimated to have the biggest reserves of fresh water on the planet.

一些科学家正在研究从南极洲收集冰山的可能性，据估计南极洲拥有地球上最大的淡水储量。

四级To help quantify ( ' , 量化 ) the costs of a poor diet, I recently tried to estimate this impact in terms of a most famous food, the burger ( ' , 汉堡包 ).

要帮助量化（'，量化 ) 关于不良饮食的成本，我最近试图用一种最著名的食物——汉堡包来估计这一影响，汉堡包 ).

考研"We estimate that either eliminating a substantial labour-rights concern, such as child labour, or increasing corporate giving by about 20% results in fines that generally are 40% lower than the typical punishment for bribing foreign officials," says one

“我们估计，要么消除大量劳工权利问题，如童工，要么将企业捐赠增加20%左右，结果导致罚款通常比贿赂外国官员的典型惩罚低40%，”一位官员表示

六级It estimated that step would save hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade.

据估计，这一步骤将在未来十年节省数千亿美元。

考研In December of 1869, Congress appointed a commission to select a site and prepare plans and cost estimates for a new State Department Building.

1869年12月，国会任命了一个委员会，负责为新的国务院大楼选址、编制计划和成本估算。

四级He estimated that about 3,000 postmasters, 500 station managers and between 500 and 1,000 postal clerks couldlose their jobs.

他估计，大约3000名邮政局长、500名车站经理和500至1000名邮政职员可能会失业。

六级It is estimated that 25% of all methane that released into the atmosphere coming from farm animals.

据估计，释放到大气中的甲烷有25%来自农场动物。

六级The African-American group estimated that he earned about ＄37,000 a year and had a two-year college degree.

据该非裔美国人组织估计，他年收入约37000美元，拥有两年制大学学位。

六级Among the government's most interesting reports is one that estimates what parents spend on their children.

政府最有趣的报告之一是估算父母在孩子身上的支出。

考研Legislation is moving through the House that would save USPS an estimated $286 billion over five years, which could help pay for new vehicles, among other survival measures.

众议院正在通过立法，这项立法将在五年内为USPS节省约2860亿美元，这将有助于支付新车的费用，以及其他生存措施。

六级Co-author Amy Zanne thinks that users probably range from climate-change researchers wanting to estimate how much carbon is stored in biomass, to foresters looking for information on different grades of timber.

合著者艾米·赞恩认为，用户可能包括希望估算生物量中储存多少碳的气候变化研究人员，以及寻找不同等级木材信息的林业工作者。

六级Of the roughly 40 million books in US libraries, for example, an estimated 32 million are in copyright.

例如，在美国图书馆大约4000万册图书中，估计有3200万册拥有版权。

考研“We estimate that either eliminating a substantial labour-rights concern, such as child labour, or increasing corporate giving by about 20% results in fines that generally are 40% lower than the typical punishment for bribing foreign officials,” says one researcher.

一位研究人员表示：“我们估计，要么消除童工等重大劳动权利问题，要么将企业捐赠增加20%左右，其罚款通常比贿赂外国官员的典型惩罚低40%。”。

四级To help quantify the costs of a poor diet, I recently tried to estimate this impact in terms of a most famous food, the burger.

为了帮助量化不良饮食的成本，我最近试图用一种最著名的食物——汉堡来估计这种影响。

六级It is estimated that Antarctica boasts of the richest reserves of fresh water on earth.

据估计，南极洲拥有地球上最丰富的淡水储备。

六级We cannot estimate that yet.

我们还无法估计。

六级According to geologists' estimates, Antarctica has enormous reserves of oil and natural gas.

根据地质学家的估计，南极洲拥有巨大的石油和天然气储量。

四级With the world's population estimated to grow from six to nine billion by 2050, researchers.

据估计，到2050年，世界人口将从60亿增长到90亿。

六级Yet due to poor practices in harvesting, storage and transportation, as well as market and consumer wastage, it is estimated that 30-50% of all food produced never reaches a human stomach.

然而，由于在收获、储存和运输方面的不良做法，以及市场和消费者的浪费，据估计，生产的所有食品中有30-50%从未到达人类的胃。

四级Its rough estimates are meant to draw the attention of world leaders

它的粗略估计意在引起世界领导人的注意

考研In addition, the computer programs a company uses to estimate relationships may be patented and not subject to peer review or outside evaluation.

此外，公司用于评估关系的计算机程序可能获得专利，不受同行审查或外部评估的约束。

四级However, Soren Andreasen, a social scientist at Dalberg Global Development Partners who supervised the writing of the report, defended it, saying that it was clear that the numbers were rough estimates.

然而，监督报告撰写的Dalberg Global Development Partners社会科学家索伦·安德里亚森（Soren Andreasen）为报告进行了辩护，他说，很明显，这些数字是粗略估计的。

六级We can make a very good estimate from the fossil record that humans probably evolved naked skin around a million and a half years ago and meanwhile they mostly lost their coat of fur.

我们可以从化石记录中做出一个很好的估计，人类大概在一百五十万年前进化出了裸露的皮肤，而与此同时，他们大部分都失去了皮毛。

考研The largest firms in America and Britain together spend more than $15 billion a year on CSR, according to an estimate by EPG, a consulting firm.

根据咨询公司EPG的估计，美国和英国最大的公司每年在企业社会责任方面的支出总计超过150亿美元。

考研Biologists estimate that as many as 2 million lesser prairie chickens一-a kind of bird living on stretching grasslands - once lent red to the often grey landscape of the mid-western and southwestern United States.

生物学家估计，多达200万只小草原鸡一-一种生活在绵延的草原上的鸟，曾使美国中西部和西南部的灰色景观呈现红色。

六级For example, the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El Ni o ( ' , 厄尔尼诺) weather phenomenon in decades.

例如，联合国儿童基金会估计，由于厄尔尼诺现象最严重，非洲约有1100万儿童面临饥饿、疾病和水资源短缺，厄尔尼诺) 几十年来的天气现象。