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1. Personal Internet use topped the list as the leading time-wasting activity according to 34 percent of respondents.
上网是第一大浪费上班时间的活动,有34%的受访者利用上班时间上网。
top在这里用作动词表示“达到……的顶端”,例如:
A church tops the hill.
山顶有一座教堂。
2. with the amount of time wasted dropping 19 percent since Salary.com conducted its first annual survey on slacking at work in 2005.
自从2005年Salary.com网站首次开展此项一年一度的调查以来。
annual survey表示“年度调查”,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.
这项年度调查根据各个城市的生活质量对215个城市进行了排名,其中瑞士的城市在"最适宜居住的城市"排名榜上占据了大多数席位。悉尼和日内瓦并列第四,波恩排在第十位。