第二十节 排 序 、排名 (续3）
31. A survey placed the company 13th for achievement.
调查显示公司业绩排第 13 位。
32. The next-to-last fledgling is now mostly out of the nest box.
这倒数第二只幼鸟如今身子几乎已全部出了鸟巢。
33. But we've never finished worse than 13th, so we are expecting to tie
somewhere around that place in Beijing.
但我们从未获得过比第 13 名更糟的名次，所以我们期望在北京奥运会的排名保
持在 13名左右。
34. Our boys won gold in Sydney and Athens, so we hope that in 2008 we can be
in a good position there as well.
我们的小伙子们在悉尼和雅典摘得了金牌，所以我们希望 2008 年我们也能在奥运会上
取得个好名次。
35. At the Athens Games in 2004, Hungary ranked 13th, its joint-lowest finish to date
（the other being Sydney）, with 17 medals. Of those 17, six came in canoeing, three
in fencing and two in swimming—all traditional strongholds.
在 2004 年雅典奥运会上，匈牙利排名第 13 位，是迄今为止的两次最低排名之一
（另一次是在悉尼奥运会上排名第 13），获 17 枚奖牌。在这 17 枚奖牌中，6 枚来自
划艇，3 枚来自击剑，2 枚来自游泳——全是传统强项。
36. While these may have been enough to see it rank third overall in 1952 at the
Helsinki Games（where it bagged its best-ever haul of 16 golds）, nowadays it is a
different story.
尽管这些奖牌数过去可能足以确保它在 1952 年赫尔辛基奥运会上总体排名第三
（在那里，它收获了空前最多的 16 枚金牌），但如今已是时过境迁了。
37. Hungary's nine golds at the Melbourne Games in 1956 saw it finish fourth,
whereas the same haul five decades later in Athens would have placed it
somewhere between ninth and 12th. In fact it finished 13th with eight golds.
1956 年墨尔本奥运会上，匈牙利夺得 9 枚金牌，名列第 4，然而，50 年后在雅
典奥运会上获得同样数目的金牌，却只能排在第 9 到 12 位之间。事实上，匈牙利在
雅典是以 8 金排在第 13 位。
38. But unless it moves with the times and compensates for its shrinking returns at
the Olympics, it risks sliding further down the table.
但除非他能与时俱进，并且能补足奥运会上缩水的奖牌数，否则它还会有在排名表
上进一步下滑的风险。
39. She admitted that the nation got lucky in Athens, where it ranked 17th overall for
its best finish since the 1952 Helsinki Games on the back of five golds.
她承认，挪威在雅典奥运会上运气很好，那届奥运会上最后排名第 17 位，不仅
获得了 5块金牌，还是自 1952 年赫尔辛基奥运会以来取得的最好成绩。
on the back of 在……之外，紧接着……
40. The beverage giant claimed the top spot for the seventh year in a row mostly
because it is big and everywhere.
这家饮料巨头连续 7 年荣登榜首，主要是由于它的业务庞大，无所不在。
