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1. Personal Internet use topped the list as the leading time-wasting activity according to 34 percent of respondents.
上網是第一大浪費上班時間的活動,有34%的受訪者利用上班時間上網。
top在這里用作動詞表示“達到……的頂端”,例如:
A church tops the hill.
山頂有一座教堂。
2. with the amount of time wasted dropping 19 percent since Salary.com conducted its first annual survey on slacking at work in 2005.
自從2005年Salary.com網站首次開展此項一年一度的調查以來。
annual survey表示“年度調查”,例如:
Swiss cities dominated the list of 215 centres ranked according to quality of life, with Geneva tying Sydney for fourth place and Bern finishing 10th, in the annual survey by human resources consultancy William M.Mercer.
這項年度調查根據各個城市的生活質量對215個城市進行了排名,其中瑞士的城市在"最適宜居住的城市"排名榜上占據了大多數席位。悉尼和日內瓦并列第四,波恩排在第十位。