just as important is a system that provides feedback to the occupants, to assist them in reducing personal energy consumption, which is upwards of 40% of the building’s total energy footprint.

同样重要的还有一个为居民提供反馈的系统，帮助他们降低个人能耗——占大楼总能量足迹的40%以上。

i「ve received upwards of 40 calls to my office [about assault cases] in the past two years.

我在过去两年的工作中，已经收到了40个以上关于袭击案件的电话。

grander operators, who charge upwards of $500 a night, are suffering at the hands of budget safari hotels, whose minibuses crowd in on the animals, and whose latrines and rubbish pollute wild areas.

每晚收费在500美元以上的大经营商，被低价狩猎酒店搞得焦头烂额：低价酒店中巴车一窝蜂地扑向保护区动物，他们的厕所和垃圾给保护区造成污染。

in some of the biggest cities especially, mobile phones are often seen as status symbols and high-end cellphones typically cost upwards of 3, 000 yuan.

尤其是在一些大城市，手机常被视为是身份的象征，高端手机的价格一般都在3,000元以上。

many success stories tell of conversion rates upwards of 10%.

许多成功的例子举出的数据是将转化率提升到10%。

even 2010 investors currently have profits upwards of 8%.

即使是2010年，投资人的收益到现在也超过了8%。

victims are made to give the phone numbers of relatives, who must pay upwards of $3,000 or more to get them released.

受害者被迫交出亲人的电话号码,这些亲人必须交$3,000以上才能解救他们.

in some categories, such as consumer electronics, 「processing trade」 accounts for upwards of 90 percent of the countries」 exports.

在某些类别中，如消费类电子产品，「加工贸易」在这些国家的出口中占90%以上。

ms. crowe says she produced upwards of 50 canvasses of mr. greenspan. all were snapped up, some for as much as $5,000 to $10,000, she says.

她说，她画了50多幅格林斯潘油画，所有这些作品都被抢购一空，一些作品卖出了高达5,000到10,000美元的价钱。

attractive body language according to studies, upwards of 90% of communication is non-verbal and is done through body language.

充满魅力的肢体语言.根据调查，90%以上的交流不是通过口语而是通过肢体语言进行的。

many of these apps use upwards of 20mb of ram and a fair amount of cpu time.

这些应用程序中有不少都需要消耗高达20mb的内存以及较多的cpu时间。

「we have a very diverse school - at any one time there are upwards of 30 different languages,」 he added.

「我们是一所多元化的学校——任何时候你都可以听到最多30多种语言」校长补充到。

upwards of 70 percent of u.s. couples are cohabiting these days before marrying, the researchers estimate.

研究者预计，目前超过70%的美国夫妇婚前同居。

with that observation he was able to establish that those with upwards of 35 years of meditation under their belt anticipated pain the least.

鑒于这项观察发现，他认为那些进行了超过35年冥想训练的人，对疼痛的预期最小。

this new outbreak in nigeria has occurred because upwards of 20% of children remain unimmunized in key high-risk areas for polio in the north of the country.

尼日利亚暴发新疫情的原因是，在该国北部主要的脊髓灰质炎高风险地区，有20%以上的儿童尚未接种此疫苗。

the 77-year-old hedge-fund supremo and slayer of sterling has nothing to prove financially (he is worth upwards of $8 billion).

这位77岁的对沖基金公司总裁，曾经一手导演了英国货币危机的金融大鳄在金融领域的地位已无庸置疑（他的身家已超过了80亿美元）。

upwards of 250 billion microscopic pieces of plastic are adrift in the mediterranean, recent sampling by a european environmental group suggests.

某欧洲环保组织最近的抽样调查发现，地中海漂浮着超过2500亿颗的塑料微粒。

many banks have already started planning for renewal of their core mainframe systems, which may be upwards of twenty- to thirty-years-old.

很多银行已经开始计划更新他们的核心主程序框架系统，它们可能已经使用了二十到三十年。

they may take up to five fittings and six weeks of work to complete, and starting prices run upwards of $3, 000.

他们做一套服装可能需要经过五次试穿，花六个星期才能完成，价格要在3,000美元以上。

typically upwards of 25% of all development time can be spent building these tests.

一般来说，所有开发时间中有25%以上花在构建这些测试上面。

maybe she had hit a bowl or two, probably with a ceramic pipe she'd made between face jugs, which took her thirty minutes to form and she sold for upwards of $300.

她好像撞到了一两个碗，大概是用她那个花了三十分钟在面壶间做的，以高达$300的价格卖掉的陶瓷烟斗撞到的。

it orbits the star once every 1.6 days, meaning its surface temperature is upwards of 3500 degrees fahrenheit.

它围着恒星1.6天旋转一周，就说明它的表面温度达到了华氏3500度。