women in the fourth quartile of height(= the shortest 25% of women)
身高在第四个四分位值的妇女（即最矮的 25% 妇女）
1.【统】四分位数(的);四分位数一组(的)
2.【天】方照(的);弦(的);二天体直径差90度(的)
1.each of four equal groups into which a statistical sample may be pided
2.in statistics, each of the three values that pide a frequency distribution into four parts that each contain a quarter of the sample population
3.the astrological aspect of planets that are distant from each other by 90º or one-fourth of the zodiac
1.Median, mode and quartile deviation were used to distinguish the importance, the centralization or the dispersion of every item.
问卷调查所得的资料，运用中数、众数、四分差来评定每个项目之重要程度、意见集中或离散情形。
2.Over 25% of those who were in the bottom quartile of ability at this age failed to achieve any educational qualifications by the age of 26.
这个年纪智能水平位居下游的那伙人里有超过25%的人在他们26岁的时候没有取得任何学历。
3.What's more, these attributes were almost totally absent among the bottom-performing quartile.
另外，在绩效“一般”的一组领导人身上，你几乎找不到这样的特质。
4.Compared with people with optimum vitamin D levels, those in the lowest quartile were more than twice as likely to be cognitively impaired.
与维他命D水平最佳的研究对象相比，维他命D水平最低的四分之一的研究对象，认知机能受损的可能性上升了一倍还多。
5.Our aim is to deliver top quartile performance among our international peer group in terms of total shareholder returns.
我们的目标是在实现股东利益方面跻身全球行业前25名。
6.And less than 5 percent of students at elite colleges come from the bottom quartile of family income.
在名牌大学里只有不到百分之五的学生来自低收入阶层。
7.M& S will not give sales figures for the store but says that it is trading in the "upper quartile of our international business" .
玛莎不愿披露该店销售数据，但表示，其营业额位列“玛莎国际业务的前25%”。
8.Only 47% of children born to women in the top quartile of stress were males. That compared with 52% for women in the bottom quartile.
压力最大的四成妇女只有47%生育男孩，而最小的四成妇女比例为52%。
9.are almost identical. It's as rents head toward the median and to the top quartile that the pergence becomes most striking.
房租费是在相中等水平直至最高水平上升时各做城市之间的差距才变得最为显著。
10.In the U. S. , two more of the original six Dynamic funds are also in the top quartile for 2010.
美国的六支原始动力基金中，还有两支在2010年最好的四分之一。