nine-tenths的意思|示意

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

十分之九的教育是鼓励。

Now we supply power to nine-tenths of the city's homes.

现在我们向这个城市十分之九的家庭提供了电力。

Eurasia encompasses two-fifths of the total land surface of the globe, and nine-tenths of the world's population.

欧亚大陆占地球五分之二的陆地和世界十分之九的人口。

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。

With the eyes nine-tenths closed, focus at the tip of your nose.

眼睛闭上十分之九，注意力集中在鼻尖。

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。