1. Estimates are that he poured nearly £5 million of the stolen money into the village and gave jobs to 43 people. 据估计他在该村投入了近500万英镑的赃款,提供了43个就业机会。
2. By the end of the next century, a single city may have more than 100 million inhabitants. 到下个世纪末,一个城市的居民就可能超过一亿。
3. But with 188 million people, the country is now struggling to provide enough food, shelter, and employment for its people. 但是这个人口达1.88亿的国家正在为了给其人民提供足够的食物、住房和工作机会而苦苦挣扎。
4. It requires 97 per cent less energy to travel the quarter of a million miles from the Moon to Earth-orbit than the 200 mile-journey from Earth´s surface into orbit! 因此,从月球到地球的25万英里所消耗的能量要比从地球表面进入地球轨道的200英里所耗能量少97%。
5. Within two years, her company was producing nearly 100 different cards and selling a million of them a year. 在两年的时间里,她的公司生产了近百种不同的贺卡,年销售量达百万张。
6. There are one hundred thousand million stars in our own Milky Way alone, and then there are three thousand million other Milky Ways, or galaxies, in the universe. So the number of stars that we know exist is now estimated at about 300 millionmillion 仅我们的银河系就有1000亿颗星,况且在宇宙中还有30亿个天河,即银河系。因此,我们所知道的现有恒星数目估计约有30亿X1000亿颗。
7. Though Mrs. Bussman was fully acquainted with this story, she thought that there was a chance in a million that she might be right. 尽管巴斯曼夫人熟知这个情况,但她仍然认为自己的想法仍有百万分之一的可能性。
8. There were six million visitors in all, and the profits from the exhibition were used to build museums and colleges. 参观的人数总共是600万。博览会的赢利用来建造博物馆和高等学校。
9. They used six million tons of rock. 他们共用了六百万吨石头。
10. The world´s largest city now — Mexico City — currently has 18 million people and a huge array of problems. 现在世界上最大的城市是墨西哥城,目前人口已有1800万。问题成堆。