1. The city will have more than 26 million residents by the year 2000, according to the United Nations Fund for Population Activities.
    据联合国人口活动基金会的估计，到2000年墨西哥城的人口将超过2600万。

2. The operation caught the imagination of the world, and there was a story that a television company offered a million dollars for one single photograph of Washkansky´s old heart.
    这一手术轰动了整个世界，据说一家电视公司曾出一百万美元的高价来购买沃什坎斯基原来心脏的一张照片。

3. The sun is a huge blazing ball, a million times larger than the earth.
    太阳是个比地球大百万倍的巨大火球，

4. The Tokyo Stock Exchange often has between 200 and 300 million transactions a day.
    东京证交所每天通常有2-3亿笔交易。

5. Today Mary Engelbreit sells an astonishing 14 million greeting cards a year.
    如今，玛丽·恩格尔布赖特每年卖出的贺卡达1,400万张，这是个惊人的数字。

6. The first animals on this living sphere, the Earth, were primitive marine animals, and then around 500 million years ago these sea animals developed shells.
    在地球这个有生命的星球上，最早的动物是原始海洋动物。后来，在大约5亿年前，这些海洋动物进化成甲壳动物。

7. The Chunnel will transport about 7 million passengers a year. Among them will be those who would have flown between London and Paris.
    隧道每年将运载大约700万旅客，其中将包括本来是乘机来往于伦敦和巴黎的旅客。

8. Lawyers for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis contested the prenuptial agreement between her and Aristotle Onassis after his death, reportedly winning $26 million in an out-of-court settlement.
    杰奎琳·肯尼迪·奥纳西斯的律师在亚里士多德·奥纳西斯死后拿出两人的婚前协议对簿公堂，据说后来在庭外和解中赢得了2,600万美元。

9. The F-16 is a $20 million piece of hardware that has enough horsepower to fly at twice the speed of sound.
    F-16是个造价2,000万美元的硬家伙，马力大到能以两倍的音速飞行。

10. The closest thing to an information superhighway today is the Internet, the system of linked computer networks that allows up to 25 million people in 135 countries to exchange information.
    今天，与信息高速公路最接近的就是互联网，这是一个由电脑连接而成的网络系统，它使得135个国家多达2,500万的人能进行信息交换。