nine tenths
九分之九：表示一个整体中的九份之九
常用释义
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基本释义
- 九分之九：表示一个整体中的九份之九，即占据整体的大部分或绝大部分。
例句
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1·Nine tenths of education is encouragement.十分之九的教育是鼓励。
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2·About nine tenths of the light from the sun is absorbed by the atmosphere.来自太阳的光约有十分之九被大气层吸收。
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3·In China over nine tenths of the inhabitants belong to the Han nationality.在中国十分之九以上的人口是汉族。
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4·Talking with peer, even nine tenths sentences might be fake, there is one that is true.因为跟同行聊天，虽然十句话有九句是假的，但是总有一句是真的。
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5·There, they say, the mutation that existed in under a tenth of the population spread to nearly nine-tenths-because those with it survived far better than those without.他们说，自此，本来存在于人口十分之一的基因突变扩展到将近十分十九——因为基因发生突变后的人更能适应新的环境。
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6·With some 80% of Libya's territory and nine-tenths of its people under rebel control, the fall of any remaining pockets of loyalists is but a matter of time.随着反对派控制了约80%的利比亚领土及十分之九的人口，所有效忠卡扎菲的残余飞地的陷落只是个时间上的问题。
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7·The only explanation Dr Clark can think of is that the star must have somehow shed nine-tenths of its mass before it exploded as a supernova.克拉克博士想到的唯一解释是这颗恒星在爆炸成超新星之前可能减少了十分之九的质量。
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8·But recently executions in Singapore have fallen by nine-tenths.然而，最近新加坡的死刑处决率下跌了十分之九。
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9·The long march to literacy is nearing an end: three-quarters of people aged 15-25 were literate in 1975; now the rate is nearly nine-tenths.消灭文盲的漫漫征途正日渐接近尾声：1975年时，年龄在15-25岁的人口中有四分之三能读会写；如今识字率已接近十分之九。
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10·I went through the whole of it, though at least nine-tenths of the words were unknown to me.尽管至少有十分之九的字词不认识，我还是看完了整本书。