1·United States faces an August 2 deadline before the current ceiling is reached and the country faces default on its debt for the first time in its history.
8月2号是目前的债务上限到期的日子，美国也将在历史上第一次面临国债违约。
2·In her current role she broke through the glass ceiling as the first woman to reach senior management level in the company.
在她目前的职位上，她突破了那道升迁的无形障碍，成为公司里第一位升至高级管理层的女性。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·With time fast running out, Congress may have left it too late to meet the Tuesday deadline set by the Treasury for raising the debt ceiling above its current $14.3tn limit.
时间正一分一秒地过去，国会可能没有足够的时间在财政部确定的提高上限的最后期限——星期二完成投票，把债务上限从现在14.3万亿再次提高。
4·"Our current outlook is for a Republican gain of at least 35 seats in the House, but it is hard to put a ceiling on it," said Wasserman.
我们目前的展望是，共和党人在众议院至少增加35个议席，但是很难说共和党最多能增加多少议席。
5·New functions include regular expression syntax for pattern matching, new date functions such as current date, and new numeric functions such as floor, ceiling and round.
新的功能包括用于模式匹配的正则表达式语法，新的日期函数比如当前日期，还有新的算术函数比如floor, ceiling和round。
6·A small current made her feel as though she was sinking into her bed; a little more had her floating close to the ceiling or seeing her legs kicking towards her face.
一股小小的电流能让她感觉到她好像是躺倒了自己的睡床里，将电流加大就会让她觉得自己漂浮到了天花板，或看到自己的双脚在踢自己的脸。
7·The ceiling increase becomes effective after the current ordering period, which ends Feb. 10, 2010.
最高限额的增加将在当前订单结束后即2010年2月10日生效。
8·I feel I have reached the "glass ceiling" in my current job.
我觉得我已经到达了“玻璃天花板”在我目前的工作。
9·Although many believe the current standoff will eventually give way to a deal to raise the debt ceiling, it would not be unwise to be prepared for the worse.
虽然很多交易商认为当前僵持不下的局面会打破，最终达成上调债务上限的协议，不过，做好坏的打算也没什么不好。
10·I feel I have reached the gla ceiling in my current job.
我觉得我已经到达了“玻璃飞车名字天花板”在我目前的工作。