The drop has been by far the largest among 16-to-24-year-olds; their participation rate has dropped almost five percentage points since 2007.

目前，16-24岁的人群是参与率是下降最多的，2007年下降了将近5个。

It's gone up by a quarter of a percentage point to 2.5%.

利率提高了0.25个，升至2.5%。

The European Central Bank has raised interest rates by a quarter percentage point.

欧洲央行宣布加息 25 个基。

The Fed cut its benchmark interest rate today by half a percentage point.

今天，美联储将基准利率下调0.5个。

But between March of last year and March of this year, consumer prices rose by 2.6 percent, more than half a percentage point higher than banker's comfort zone.

但从去年3月到今年3月，消费者价格上涨了2.6%，比银行家的舒适区间高出0.5个以上。

Plus, precincts that serve Big Ten campuses saw their turnout increase by an average of 24 percentage points.

另外，十大校园的地区投票率平均增加了24个。

Women's speeding offences have risen by four percentage points in the past five years, yet still constitute only 17 percent of the total.

在过去五年中，女性超速行驶的情况上升了4个，但仍只占整个超速行驶违章的17%。

Between November and December alone, prices increased by half a percentage point, that was more than many economists had expected but it wasn't as much as the 0.8 percent increase between October and November.

仅去年11月到12月期间，价格就上升了0.5%，这比大多数经济学家预测的都高，但与10月到11月这段时间上升的0.8%相比，还不算多。

According to Spain's interior ministry, that's up 9 percentage points since the 2016 election.

西班牙内政部表示，这一投票率比2016年大选增加了9%。

Even then, banks' capital ratios fell by about four percentage points.

即便如此，银行的资本比率仍下降了约4个。

Over the years, these extras have added up. JetBlue and Spirit, for example, have increased their overall revenues by several percentage points through these fees alone; and this has forced customers to decide with their dollar what they want.

多年来，这些额外的费用越来越多。例如，捷蓝航空和精灵航空仅通过这些收费就将总收入提高了几个；这就迫使顾客用自己的钱来决定他们想要什么。

Mr. Hernandez defeated the popular television presenter Salvador Nasralla by less than 2 percentage point.

埃尔南德斯打败了广受欢迎的电台主持人萨尔瓦多 纳斯拉亚(Salvador Nasralla)，支持率比后者高2个。

I expect to carry North Carolina by two three percentage points.

我预计北卡罗来纳州领先两三个。

The Fed raised its key interest by a quarter of a percentage point. Why?

美联储将基准利率上调了25个基。为什么？

The bridge will boost the country's economy by 1.2 percentage points.

这座大桥将拉动该国经济增长1.2个。

The divide between Black and white students widened by eight percentage points during the pandemic.

在新冠疫情期间，黑人和白人学生之间的差距扩大了8%。

The US Federal Reserve has put up interest rates by another half a percentage point.

美联储加息 50 个基。

Only about a percentage point, but the mortgage interest rate has risen.

只有大约一个，但抵押贷款利率已经上升。

And it showed Nasralla, the challenger, ahead by 5 percentage points.

当时的统计结果是，挑战者纳斯拉亚以5%的优势领先。

The ratio was 0.6 percentage points higher compared with the previous year.

与上年相比，这一比例提高了0.6个。