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Billions of pounds were wiped off share prices today .

今天的股票价格下挫造成数十亿英镑的损失。

The government is spending billions of dollars on new urban rail projects .

政府正把数十亿元花在新城市铁路项目上。

Our immune systems are killing billions of germs right now .

我们的免疫系统正在杀死数以十亿计的细菌。

The country owes billions of dollars to foreign creditors .

这个国家欠外国债权人数十亿元。

Biological systems have been doing this for billions of years

生物系统亿万年来一直都是这样。

He urged US executives to invest billions of dollars in his country .

他力劝美国公司的高管们向他的国家投资数十亿美元。

In the end they lose millions , perhaps billions

最后他们输掉几百万，或许是几十亿。

The government had committed billions of pounds for a programme to reduce acid rain

政府已经给一个旨在减少酸雨的方案拨了几十亿英镑。

They have already pledged billions of dollars in aid .

他们已经许诺援助几十亿美元。

Billions of pounds are riding on the outcome of the election

几十亿英镑都取决于这次选举的结果。

The government has committed billions toward defraying the costs of the war .

政府已承诺拨款数十亿支付战争的开支。

But congressional staffers fret that the project will eventually cost billions more

但是国会工作人员担心这项计划最终会多耗资数十亿元。

Israel accepted billions of dollars in war reparations .

以色列得到了几十亿美元的战争赔款。

The Government continues to pour billions of pounds into its massive road-building programme

政府继续向庞大的筑路项目中投入数十亿英镑。

She faces charges of helping to plunder her country 's treasury of billions of dollars

她面临协助侵吞数十亿美元国家财产的指控。

That falls far short of the billions of dollars people once expected it to generate .

远低于人们曾经预测的数十亿美元的水平。

It estimated that step would save hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade .

据估计，这个措施能在未来十年里节省数千亿美元。

Drug companies have been given hundreds of billions of dollars as we limit Medicaid benefits .

由于我们限制医疗补助金,制药公司获得了数千亿美元。

" An ultimate face recognition algorithm should perform with billions of people in a dataset , " the researchers wrote .

“一个终极的人脸识别算法应该可以识别数据集中数以十亿计的人，”研究人员写道。

The banks that brought on the global financial crisis got billions while a tiny bit went to the homeowners and victims of the same banks ' predatory lending practices .

引发全球金融危机的银行获得了数十亿美元,只有一小部分资金流向了房主和银行掠夺性放贷行为的受害者。

What happens to the centralized electric grid , which took decades and billions of dollars to build , as more and more people become " prosumers , " who produce and consume their own energy onsite ?

如果越来越多的人成为“产消合一者”，自己随时产出并消费能源，那些曾花费数十年和上百亿美金建造的中央电网该怎么办呢?

The bankers , among the strongest advocates of laissez-faire economics , were only too willing to accept hundreds of billions of dollars from the government in the aid programs that have been a recurring feature of the global economy since the beginning of the Thatcher-Reagan era of " free " markets and deregulation .

银行家们是自由放任经济学最有力的倡导者之一,他们非常愿意接受政府提供的数千亿美元的援助,这些援助自撒切尔-里根时代"自由"市场和放松管制开始以来,一直是全球经济的一个反复出现的特点。

The development of fiber-optic cables allowed for billions of bits of information to be received every minute .

光纤电缆的发展使得每分钟接收数十亿比特的信息成为可能。

PepsiCo is to spend billions of dollars to develop drinks and snacks and reformulate existing ones with lower sugar , salt and fat , as consumers demand healthier options and regulatory pressure intensifies amid an obesity epidemic .

随着消费者需要更健康的选择，监管压力增强，加之肥胖病的流行，这些都促使百事可乐公司花费数十亿美元研发饮料和零食，并且对当前的产品进行了重新调整，采用了低糖、低盐和低脂肪的配方。

So there are some problems for the National Health Service , where fatness-relatedillnesses such as heart disease and cancer have been on an increase for the past 40 years and are costing billions of pounds every year .

因此，国家健康服务存在一些问题，在过去的40年里，与肥胖相关的疾病如心脏病和癌症一直在增加，这些病每年都要耗费数十亿英镑。

Billions of periodical cicadas emerging out of the earth and overtaking the eastern United States .

数十亿只周期蝉破土而出，席卷美国东部。

And wherever they drift , they can have a major influence on their immediate2 environment , changing the temperature of the sea and introducing billions of tonnes of fresh water .

不论冰山漂到哪里，都会对周围环境产生巨大的影响，改变海水温度，并引入数十亿吨淡水。

The disappearance1 of the two floors is apparently2 because certain numbers are bad luck or have associations with death among Chinese , who are investing billions of dollars in the Australian property market .

这两个楼层的消失显然是因为在中国人看来，某些数字代表霉运或与死亡有关。中国人在澳大利亚房地产市场已投资数十亿美元。

There are billions of people in the world .

世界上有数十亿人。

In the developing world , billions of people lack access to basic energy services .

在发展中国家，数以十亿计的人们无法获得基本的能源服务。