Quotas get action: they " open the way to equality and they break through the glass ceiling, " according to Reding, a result seen in France and other countries with legally binding provisions on placing women in top business positions.

定额让人们采取行动，按照雷丁的说法，它们 “开辟了路，突破了玻璃天花板”。法国和其他的一些国家制定了具有法律约束条款让女性进入企业高级职位，这些国家已经看到了上面提到的结果。

We are lifting our hips towards the ceiling.

把臀部撅向天花板。

Dumbledore hummed a little and smiled at the ceiling.

邓布利多哼着小曲，笑眯眯地看着天花板。

Lying on the sofa, he could see the ceiling of the room.

他躺在沙发上可以看房间的天花板。

It was a big, round room with a high arched roof, and the walls and ceiling and floor were covered with large emeralds set closely together.

一个很大的圆屋子，盖着高拱形的房顶，无论是四的墙壁，还是天花板和地板，都用大翡翠紧密地接连着的。

Imagine trying to make a film of a poet's “hopelessly unphotogenic” life, she said: “Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling.

当设想如果要拍摄一部影片，讲述一位诗人“极端无美感”的生活时，她说，“就是一个人坐在桌子边上，或者躺在沙发上，一动不动地盯着墙或是天花板。

She was frightened to find a trail of blood on the ceilling.

她在天花板上发现一道血迹，吓坏了。

Alice grew so big that her head hit the ceiling!

爱丽丝变得太大了，她的头撞到了天花板！

Wall and ceiling spaces would be insulated to conform to new building regulations.

为了遵守新的建筑规定，墙面和天花板区域需要隔热。

It will take fierce determination to act now to lay the foundations where we may not know all the details about how to shape the ceiling.

现在就采取行动，这需要坚定的决心，为可能未知的的如何去塑造天花板的所有细节奠定基础。

I understand, like my dad, they lay in bed staring at night, staring at the ceiling, wondering, " Can I keep my health care? Can I pay my mortgage" ?

我知道，就像我的父亲一样，他们躺在床上凝视着夜晚，凝视着天花板，想知道：" 我能维持我的医疗保险吗？我可以还贷款吗？"

I estimate you have between 210 and 240 square meters of walls and ceiling.

我估计你有 210 至 240 方米的墙壁和天花板。

Soon the panels closed. The ceiling lit up.

过了一会儿，嵌板关上了，天花板的灯亮了。

The moonlight shone into my bedroom, as it did then, and I saw a vision on the ceiling, a white figure looking down on me.

月光照进我的卧室——当时也确实有月光，我看到天花板上有一个白色影子正向下看着我。

Above them were two round holes in a wooden ceiling that Jack thought must be the floor of the world they'd left – his world, where Mum lived, where everything he knew existed.

在他们上方的木质天花板上有两个圆洞，杰克认为那一定是他们离开的那个世界的地板——他的世界是妈妈生活的地方，是他所知道的一切存在的地方。

And a living room with a twelve-foot ceiling.

还有一间天花板高十二英尺的客厅。

Inside the house, high ceilings and tall windows help the heat rise out of reach.

房屋内部，高挑的天花板与立式大窗户利于热气向上散出。

And now we're looking at some great floor to ceiling, all of the walls in this entire space have been blown off .

现在从地板到天花板都看起来好极了，这部分所有的墙体都拆除了。

And he touched the ceiling with the spray, and the ceiling rose so high, and where he had touched it there gleamed a golden star.

她用绿枝触了一下天花板，天花板一下子高高升起来。凡是她所触到的地方，就有一颗闪烁的金星出现。

The water came and went quickly, but the salt in the water stays in the 900 year old walls much longer eating away at the marble and brick near the floor and even on the mosaic ceiling.

洪水来去匆匆，但是水里的盐分在九百年前的墙壁上停留的时间要长得多，盐分侵蚀着地板附近的大理石和砖块，甚至是马赛克镶嵌的天花板。