one-third

1. Their pay has been cut by one-third.
   他们薪水降低了1/3。
2. At least one-third of all women over ninety have sustained a hip fracture.
   超过90岁的所有女性中至少有1/3已经出现髋骨骨折。
3. The top one-third of all high school graduates are entitled to an education at the California State University.
   高中毕业生当中排名前1/3的学生可以进入加利福尼亚州立大学深造。
4. It is 2,300 metres above sea level, so a given volume of air contains only about one-third as much oxygen as it would at sea level
   这是在海拔2,300米的高空，因此一定体积空气的含氧量只有海平面处的约1/3。
5. I eat a lot of fish and squid each day, up to one-third of my body weight!
   我每天吃许多鱼和鱿鱼，能达到我体重的三分之一！
6. He says alcohol is responsible for one-third of the deaths among young people in some parts of the world.
   他表示，在世界上某些地区的年轻人中，与酒精相关的死因甚至高达三分之一。
7. One-third of the population is made up of ethnic minorities, mainly Chinese and Indian.
   该国三分之一的人口是由少数民族组成的，主要是华人和印度族人。
8. Morocco, Vietnam and the Dominican Republic have reduced child deaths by more than one-third since nineteen ninety-nine.
   自1999年起，摩洛哥，越南和多米尼加共和国以使儿童的死亡率减少了三分之一强。
9. More than one-third of adults were obese in two thousand nine and two thousand ten.
   2009和2010年美国肥胖成年人比例超过了1/3。
10. More than one-third of the roughly 1,400 respondents already use wearable technologies on the job.
    在大约1400名受访者中，超过三分之一已经开始在工作中使用可穿戴技术。
11. Similarly, about one-third of china's trade with Japan was handled by Hong Kong last year.
    同样地，在过去一年，日本和中国之间的贸易，约有三分之一是经香港处理的。
12. Around one-third of the world's smokers live in China, which has some of the largest tobacco companies.
    全世界大约三分之一的吸烟者生活在中国，中国拥有一些规模最大的烟草公司。
13. Now their income of the family was cut down more than one-third.
    现在他们的家庭收入减了三分之一以上。
14. More than one-third of the park has a blanket of permanent snow and glacial ice.
    公园中三分之一以上的地方都覆盖有一层终年积雪和冰川冰。
15. WHO estimates that one-third of the world's population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
    据世卫组织估计，有三分之一的世界人口感染了结核分支杆菌。
16. Currently, 12 members of OPEC crude output of the world's total demand for one-third.
    目前，欧佩克12个成员国的原油产量占世界总需求量的三分之一强。
17. The country's per capita availability of renewable water resources is only about one-third of the world average.
    中国的人均可循环水资源获得量只有世界平均水平的三分之一。
18. There are around 800 steelmakers in the country, and the 10 largest control only one-third of production.
    中国大约有800家钢铁制造商，其中最大的10家仅控制着三分之一的产量。
19. At least one-third of all small and medium-size businesses are now owned by women.
    至少有三分之一的中小型企业是由女性拥有的。
20. The World Health Organization estimates that about one-third of the world's population is infected with the TB bacteria.
    世界卫生组织推测，世界三分之一的人口已感染上了肺结核病菌。
21. China is Africa's biggest trading partner and buys more than one-third of its oil from the continent.
    中国是非洲大陆最大的贸易伙伴，购买了产自这里的石油的三分之一。
22. It is very rich, the freshwater of the world's freshwater roughly one-third of the time.
    它的淡水量十分丰富，大概占了世界总淡水量的三分之一。
23. Compared with the stable group, the early drinkers were almost one-third more likely to have metabolic syndrome.
    和稳定组相比，早期饮酒者几乎有三分之一患上代谢综合症。
24. They already contain one-third of all the urban dwellers in developing countries.
    贫民窟已经容纳了发展中回家全部城市居民的三分之一。
25. The personnel of the company have been reduced nearly by one-third and the expenses by one-fourth.
    该公司的员工裁减了近三分之一，开支减少了四分之一。
26. We make up6 percent of the world's people; yet we consume one-third of the world's resources.
    我们弥补百分之六的世界人民，但我们消耗三分之一的世界资源。
27. Better roads in Ghana's rural areas have reduced the cost of moving goods and people by one-third.
    加纳农村公路条件的改善使得客运和货运成本降低了三分之一。
28. By1990, one-third of all US homes had an NES system.
    截止到1990年，三分之一的美国家庭拥有了NES系统。
29. That is almost one-third of its population.
    这是几乎占了三分之一的人口。

noun

1. one of three equal parts of a divisible whole
   1. it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement

   Synonym:    thirdtierce