As the country has no manufacturing base to speak of, most items have to be imported, which pushes prices up.
这个国家没有生产基地可言，大部分商品都需进口，从而致使物价上涨。For much of the mortgage boom, Merrill was able to sell the bulk of the CDOs it underwrote to investors all over the world.
在抵押贷款业务繁荣兴旺的那段日子，美林能够将它承销的大部分CDO顺利出售给世界各地的投资者。Maya moved back and forth with her but for much of his schooling Barry chose to stay in the US with his grandparents.
玛雅跟着她来回迁徙，但是巴利选择跟外祖父母待在一起，在美国完成了大部分学业。Since most of you reading this can't play basketball on my level, let me put it to you in a way you can understand.
其实大部分读著这封信的人让他们去打球是肯定达不到我的级别，让我换个说法说你就可以明白了。She spent the last 13 years of her life in Milledgeville, most of them on crutches, her bones and joints ravaged by lupus.
她在米利奇维尔度过了生命中最后的13年，大部分时间拄着拐杖，饱受狼疮肆虐她的骨骼和关节。President Obama may be experiencing a temporary bounce with his own personal ratings, but much of his agenda remain hugely unpopular.
奥巴马总统在支持率上可能暂获反弹，但他的大部分议程还是不受欢迎的。There was very little that I wrote, up to the time of his leaving London permanently, which I didn't discuss with him.
在他离开伦敦一去不返之前，凡是我写的东西，大部分都和他讨论过。Campaigners said the approach raised potentially troubling questions and much rested on how the idea was implemented.
活动家们说这个方法产生了诸多潜在的棘手问题，大部分是关于如何执行这一想法。Siemens PLC with its high speed, low power consumption, good stability and easy to understand programming occupies most of the PLC market.
西门子公司的PLC以其高速度、低能耗、稳定性好和编程简单易懂占有了大部分PLC市场。