31. A survey?placed?the company 13th for achievement.

調(diào)查顯示公司業(yè)績排第 13 位。

32. The?next-to-last?fledgling is now mostly out of the nest box.

這倒數(shù)第二只幼鳥如今身子幾乎已全部出了鳥巢。

33. But we've never?finished worse than 13th, so we are expecting to?tie?

somewhere?around that place?in Beijing.

但我們從未獲得過比第 13 名更糟的名次，所以我們期望在北京奧運會的排名保

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.

我們的小伙子們在悉尼和雅典摘得了金牌，所以我們希望 2008 年我們也能在奧運會上

取得個好名次。

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 年雅典奧運會上，匈牙利排名第 13 位，是迄今為止的兩次最低排名之一

（另一次是在悉尼奧運會上排名第 13），獲 17 枚獎牌。在這 17 枚獎牌中，6 枚來自

劃艇，3 枚來自擊劍，2 枚來自游泳——全是傳統(tǒng)強項。

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.

盡管這些獎牌數(shù)過去可能足以確保它在 1952 年赫爾辛基奧運會上總體排名第三

（在那里，它收獲了空前最多的 16 枚金牌），但如今已是時過境遷了。

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 年墨爾本奧運會上，匈牙利奪得 9 枚金牌，名列第 4，然而，50 年后在雅

典奧運會上獲得同樣數(shù)目的金牌，卻只能排在第 9 到 12 位之間。事實上，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.

但除非他能與時俱進，并且能補足奧運會上縮水的獎牌數(shù)，否則它還會有在排名表

上進一步下滑的風險。

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.

她承認，挪威在雅典奧運會上運氣很好，那屆奧運會上最后排名第 17 位，不僅

獲得了 5塊金牌，還是自 1952 年赫爾辛基奧運會以來取得的最好成績。

on the back of 在……之外，緊接著……

40. The beverage giant?claimed the top spot?for the seventh year in a row mostly

because it is big and everywhere.

這家飲料巨頭連續(xù) 7 年榮登榜首，主要是由于它的業(yè)務(wù)龐大，無所不在。