For over a quarter century in Hollywood, Tim Burton has made weirdness good box office.(在好萊塢過去的25年里，蒂姆伯頓的怪誕電影獲得了十分不錯的票房。)

Reform by stealth has been a hallmark of much of China's economic transformation in the past quarter-century.(在過去的十五年中，隱秘的變革成為中國經濟變化的一個顯著標志。)

The favorite work of fiction in the past quarter-century was the Harry Potter series (23%), followed by Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code (20%).(在過去的二十五年里，最受歡迎的是哈利波特集（23%），丹布朗寫的《達芬奇密碼》緊跟其后，占了20%.)

He says the measures are needed to counter one of the worst crises since the 1930s and a recession that is already the longest in a quarter-century.(他說，必須采取措施打擊最嚴重的危機之一，因為1930年的衰退，已經是最長的四分之一個世紀。)

But what has made this molecular clock so useful for forensic anthropologists over the past quarter-century is the fact that it stops dead when someone dies.(但為何這個分子時鐘在過去四分之一世紀中對于法醫學家如此有用呢？究其實是因為某人死去時它突然停止，凝滯了死亡瞬間。)

Then began a quarter century of the most rapid growth that these countries had ever experienced.(此后，這些國家就開始了從未經歷過的、長達四分之一世紀的最迅猛發展。)

The great bull market of the past quarter century is commemorated by millions of empty houses without anyone to buy them.(以往四分之一世紀所承載的隆隆牛市亦因建起了數百萬空宅卻難覓買家而為人所紀念。)

Years of growth in countries like India and China have lifted the fortunes of tens of millions of people in the past quarter century.(過去二十多年來，印度和中國經歷了多年的經濟增長，數千萬人的財富大大增加了。)

Still they may count themselves lucky still having a job as half believe unemployment will reach its highest ever level by the quarter century mark.(然而他們可能會覺得自己還有工作還算幸運，因為半數的人相信到2025年失業率將會達到有史以來的最高水平。)

The introduction of new screen formats was put off for a quarter century, and color, though utilized over the next two decades for special productions, also did not become a norm until the 1950s.(新屏幕格式的引入被推遲了四分之一個世紀，而顏色盡管在接下來的二十年里被用于特制產品，它也是直到二十世紀五十年代才成為一種常態。)