however, the great majority of people will live and work for the next 50 years in buildings existing today and having been built when lax codes were in force.
然而,更大多数的人今后50年将继续生活和工作在现有的房屋中,这些房屋建造时的建筑标準比较松弛。
the great majority of people detest meetings; too many are the black death of community groups.
绝大多数人们讨厌开会。太多会议是社区组织的黑死病。
the answer for the great majority of people must be the latter.
绝大多数人的回答必然是后者。
even before the crash of 2008, however, that system self-evidently had failed the great majority of people on this planet.
然而,即使是在2008年大崩溃以前,这个制度本身早就明火执仗地舍弃了这个星球上最广大人民的根本利益了。
the great majority of people think not killing is the hardest; many people also think not stealing is the hardest.
大多数人认为不杀最难,也很多人以为不盗最难;