As a matter of prudence, keep a record of all your financial transactions.

She refuses to allow her family to help her as a matter of principle.

她不要家人帮忙，对她来说这是个原则问题。

We clean and repair the machines as a matter of routine.

我们定期清洗和修理机器。

Just as a matter of interest, how much did you pay for it?

我只是感兴趣，你这是花多少钱买的？

The government must deal with this as a matter of urgency.

政府必须将此事当作紧急的事情来处理。

We always check people's addresses as a matter of course.

我们总是照例检查一下人们的地址。

On average, about 15 percent of students at elite colleges receive Pell grants, which as a rule of thumb go to students in the bottom half of the income distribution.

平均来看，顶尖学府的学生中，约15%获得了佩尔助学金（Pell），根据经验，该项助学金一般由家庭收入低于中值的学生获得。

As a rule of thumb, if you can't dunk a basketball, you wouldn't be able to escape this asteroid by jumping.

作为经验估算，如果你没法扣篮，那么你就不能通过竖直起跳的方式逃离这颗星球。

As a rule of thumb, if you find yourself wrapping more than three disparate chunks of code in a category, consider making it an expando.

一般说来，如果您发现自己在一个category中包装超过3个根本不同的代码块时，考虑使用expando。

As a rule of thumb, it is recommended that you use between one and two GB of memory per JVM and as much memory as can be afforded for the database.

一个重要原则是，建议每个JVM使用1GB至2GB内存，并为数据库提供尽可能多的内存。

As a rule of thumb, once the fund has returned to investors the capital drawn from them, plus management and other fees, the subsequent profits are split.

一般而言，一旦基金将本金返还给投资者，在扣除管理及其它费用之后，剩余的利润将进行分摊。

As a rule of thumb, public investors rarely pay higher multiples for a company growing 100% versus a company growing 50%, all else being equal.

按照他们的经验法则，其它条件相当时，相对于增长率50%的公司，公众投资者并不会给予100%增长率的公司更高倍数的估值。

As a rule of thumb, unless there are strong constraints due to a specific application or environment, it is usually preferable to use the Multiple server classloader policy.

根据一般经验，除非特定的应用程序或环境存在严格约束，使用“多个”服务器类加载器策略通常较为可取。

As a rule of thumb, you can increase the size of the buffer pools as long as you get a corresponding increase of the bufferpool hit ratio.

首要原则是，只要能够获取一个对应的缓冲池命中率增加，就可以增加缓冲池的大小。

Hence, as a rule of thumb, you may consider setting the number of page cleaners equal to the number of CPUs on the database server.

因此，根据经验法则，您可以考虑将页面清洗器的数目设置为数据库服务器上CPU的数目。

As a rule of thumb, wherever there is "system invocation logic embedded in the BPEL implementation" we expect the divergence to be high.

从纯实践经验的角度看，我们认为，凡是“在BPEL实现中嵌入了系统调用逻辑”时，上述二者的差异都会非常明显。

As a rule of thumb, aperture webs should be no less than the stencil thickness to curtail bridging defects.

为了减少连锡孔网应不少于钢网厚度。

As a rule of thumb, you should cook a chicken for 20 minutes for each pound that it weighs.

凭经验估计，每磅鸡肉应烹调20分钟。

As a rule of thumb, turning points in the economy are signaled by three consecutive monthly LEI changes in the same direction.

连续三个月LEI指数朝同一个方向变化是经济转折点的重要信号。

As a rule of thumb, if you wouldn't read or watch it in your native language, you also shouldn't in your second language.

一般来说，对一本书或一部电影如果你连母语版都提不起兴趣，那么就别尝试外语版了。和外国人聊天

As a rule of thumb, when I see a projection, I add one year to delivery time and multiply by0.1.

作为首要的规则，每当我看到一个规划，我会在规划实现时间上的每一年间隔，就对其规划的结果乘以0.1。