The trend also helped to melt Arctic sea ice cover to a record low for December last month, the WMO said in a statement.

世界气象组织称，这个趋势使北冰洋的冰雪覆盖面于上个月十二月份达到历史最低。

With the high temperatures, there must be sufficient cloud cover to keep any water on the surface from boiling.

由于温度较高，必须有足够的云彩才能防止星球表面的水分不会出现沸腾。

Such assurances have failed to convince critics of R2P, who are adamant that the whole idea is just a cover to legitimise armed interference by rich Western powers in the affairs of poor countries.

这样的宽心丸还是不能说服R2P的批评者，他们地认为整个保护责任思想就是使西方霸权暴力干涉弱国内政合法化的一个幌子。

So I put in the hours, invested weekends, read the Rhino Manual from cover to cover (I kid you not!), and did all the tutorials.

我投入时间，甚至周末，把犀牛手册详细地从封面研究到封底(绝没骗你！)

We have a cover to prevent evaporation.

我们有一个盖子防止水蒸发。

It will also impose new taxes on the wealthy and ban insurance practices like refusing cover to people with pre-existing medical conditions.

法案还包括对高收入家庭采取新的征税方案，保险公司不得拒绝对有过往病史的人投保等。

Which is saying something. And I think that would have given him enough cover to get out from his campaign pledge.

这些情况说明了一些问题，而且我想这些情况足够成为他不履行自己竞选承诺的幌子了。

A third reason could be that Mr Sarkozy hopes to use state intervention in some areas as political cover to press ahead with more liberal policies in others.

第三个原因，萨科奇先生希望以某些领域的国家干预为掩护，加紧在其他领域推行更为自由的政策。

If time permits, we may read a mini Chinese-English dictionary carefully from cover to cover, which may help us widen our vocabulary.

如果时间允许，通读小小汉英词典对于英语学习也有很大帮助。它能帮助我们增加词汇量。

I「ve read the book twice from cover to cover.

这本书我从头到尾看过两遍。

Iran has steadfastly refused to halt its nuclear-enrichment programme, which it says is to make fuel for civil reactors but which the West and others suspect is a cover to develop nuclear weapons.

伊朗坚决拒绝停止浓缩铀项目，它说该项目是为了给民用反应堆提供燃料，而西方国家和其他国家怀疑这是掩盖制造核武器的借口。

Read a novel cover to cover. – I read the short novel 「Siddhartha」 by Herman Hesse.

从头到尾读完了一本小说。 ——我读了一部短篇小说，赫尔曼·黑塞的《悉达多》。

This will mean that people can still damage their skin from UV light, as seemingly the swimsuit will not offer any type of cover to the skin.

这意味着人们的皮肤仍将受到紫外线的伤害，因为看起来泳衣不会为皮肤提供任何形式的保护。

If time permits, we may read Mini Chinese-English dictionary carefully from cover to cover, which may help us widen our sight and master knowledge in all aspects.

如果时间允许，通读小小汉英字典对于英语学习也帮助很大。他能帮助我们扩大视野并全方位地掌握所学知识。

If the planet has an atmosphere like ours, it would need about 50 percent cloud cover to stay cool enough for liquid water to exist on the surface.

如果这颗行星有跟我们一样的大气层，就需要覆盖大约50%的云层来保持它足够凉，这样液态水才能在行星的表面存在。

For me, when it comes to learning a new language, I can read a textbook from cover to cover, but a week later I」ve forgotten it all.

对我而言，在需要学习一门新语言时，我可以从头到尾阅读一本教科书，但一周之后我就会完全忘记书里讲了些什么。

Sure enough, there is the tiny TAB the manufacturer had affixed in the cover to try to avoid E-mail requests like her own.

果然，制造商已经将一个小标签贴在封面，来避免像她这样的电子邮件要求。

At around 200 pages, it is concise enough to read cover to cover - something I rarely do with tech books, often preferring to use the longer ones as a reference.

书的内容简明扼要，200页左右的篇幅正好可以从头读到尾——我很少这样阅读技术书籍，通常我都把更厚的书做为参考手册。

He procured a packing-case from the woodpile in the cellar, fitted a cover to it, and raided the scrap-iron the Silva tribe was collecting for the junkman.

他从地客的木料堆里找出了一个打包箱，装上盖子，又在西尔伐家的孩子们搞来準备卖给废品商的废料里搜刮了一番。

The tendency for clouds to thin and cloud cover to reduce was more pronounced in this model than in any of the current global models.

云层变薄和云覆盖量减少的趋势在这个模型中比在其他的任何模型中都要显着的多。

With each new issue, the group's members work together to sharpen their language skills by translating the magazine from cover to cover.

每当新一期的杂志发布，团队的成员就分工合作、逐篇翻译，以此来提高自己的翻译技能。

Read a novel cover to cover.

从头到尾读完了一本小说。

ALTHOUGH almost nobody picks them up, let alone reads them cover to cover, the election manifestos published by British political parties matter.

尽管几乎没人会捡起英国政党出版的选举宣言，更不用说一页一页地读，然而它们却是很重要。

Another option is to scale back his ambitions, going for the less grand but still worthy goal of expanding health cover to the many tens of millions without it.

另一个选项为降低改革目标，朝不那么宏大却依然有价值的目标前进，这样可以扩大医疗覆盖范围惠及数千万缺少医疗保障的人们。

Sharma is as passionate about preserving forest cover to recharge the rivers as he is about the need for hydropower.

沙玛热情于保护森林覆盖率来补给河流，同样也认为需要水力发电。