Oh! Clever! Playing on the use of cardinal numbers as euphemisms for bodily functions.

行啊你！用基词做文章来委婉表达能。

I don't like odd time signatures 'cause basically, it's like a hiccup.

我不喜欢基节拍，因为基本上，这就像是打嗝。

So it dropped from a low base to even lower.

所以它从一个很低的基下降到更低了。

In Mesopotamia, it is thought that the Sumerians developed astronomy with their invention of the sexagesimal system, which is where 60 is the base number, which was then applied to calculating the hours of night and day.

在美索不达米亚，们认为苏美尔发明了六十进制系统，从而发展了天文学，其中 60 是基，用于计算昼夜的时间。

They have a lot more people today because they had a lot more people a few hundred years ago, when the world began its period of modern, and rapid, population growth.

那究竟是为什同样的增长速率，中印却增长了如此多的口呢其实很简单，他们古代的口基大。

The number of couples getting married will remain stable in the coming years, based on the huge population base in China, a Chinese demographic expert said.

一位中国口专家表示，基于中国庞大的口基，未来几年结婚的夫妇量将保持稳定。

The base 12 system coming from the fact that there are roughly 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness during each observed equinox.

以 12 为进位基的系统来源于这样一个事实，即在每个观测到的昼夜平分点，大约有 12 小时的白昼和 12 小时的黑夜。

The increase in headline inflation was the biggest since November 2009, when similar " base effects" were in play after the global financial crisis.

这是自2009年11月以来的最大增幅，当时全球金融危后也出现了类似的“基效应”。

But it will also prove less lethal, because the number of deaths should be measured against a much larger base of infections.

但它也将被证明不那，因为死亡应该与更大的感染基进行比较。

The challenge is how to ensure food without increasing animal numbers and having an impact on fragile lands and our resource bases.

这个挑战就是如何在不增加牲畜量、不对脆弱的土地和我们的资源基造成影响的基础之上保证口食物的来源。

But the 7% rise would have been bigger than in any other state, mostly because Mississippi's current Medicaid programme is so skimpy.

而密西西比州这7%的增加幅度则要远大于其它州，主要是因为该州当前的医补基太小了。

" There is no other (automaker) in the world that has as low a cost base as in Vietnam, " she said.

“世界上没有哪家汽车制造商的成本基能像越南这样低。”

Q1 last year also set a low base as the global economy was struck by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

受新冠疫情影响，去年一季度全球经济受到冲击，创下了较低的基。

By next year, student-loan payments will drop out of growth calculations, because monthly bills will be part of the baseline.

到明年，学生贷款支付将从增长计算中剔除，因为每月的还款将成为基的一部分。

The report said the social media site's user base and earnings had not grown as much as expected.

报告称，该社交媒网站的用户基和收入增速远低于预期。

That doubtless flattered the data for the second quarter of this year by lowering the base for comparison.

这种降低比较基的行为无疑是对今年第二季度据的美化。

In 2018, this question was asked again to 15-year-olds, and this time to a much bigger group.

2018 年，他们又问了 15 岁孩子们这个问题，这次基更大。

These are known as cardinal numbers.

这些字被称为基。

Australia, therefore, began the modern era of industrialization from a far far lower population base than any other of Earth's inhabited continents and since population growth tends to be exponential, Australia has been lagging behind the rest for centuries.

因此，澳大利亚是在口基远远低于地球上其他有居住的大陆的情况下开始了现代工业化时代，而且由于口增长往往呈指级，澳大利亚几个世纪以来一直落后于其他国家。

Germany, for instance, thinks the main problem is fiscal profligacy and so is reluctant to boost Europe's rescue fund; yet a far bigger fund is needed if a rescue is to be credible.

以德国为例，他们觉得主要问题是财政浪费并且不愿意支援欧洲的贮备金；但是拥有庞大基的储备金是必须，如果解救措施想要赢得口碑。