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。

They have already pledged billions of dollars in aid.

他们已经承诺了数十亿美元的援助。

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 country owes billions of dollars to foreign creditors.

这个国家欠外国债权人数十亿元。

Billions of dollars are riding on the outcome of the election.

数十亿美元取决于选举的结果。

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

但国会的工作人员们担心这个方案最终会多花几十亿。

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

她面临协从窃取国库中数十亿美元的指控。

The insurance industry will pay out billions of dollars for damage caused by Hurricane Katrina.

保险业将为卡特里娜飓风造成的损失赔付数十亿美元。

Billions of dollars each year are spent on schools and libraries.

每年有数十亿美元花在建设学校和图书馆上。

It assures that the astronomical cycles have been in existence for billions of years.

这使人们确信天文周期已经存在了数十亿年。

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

据估计，那一举措将在未来10年节省数千亿美元。

We are the products of evolution, and not just evolution that occurred billions of years ago.

我们是进化的产物，并且不仅仅是发生在数十亿年前的进化。

At the same time, they provide state and local governments with billions of dollars of revenue.

与此同时，它们为州和地方政府提供了数十亿美元的收入。

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都有数十亿比特的信息被接收。

Eleven digits can be used to make tens of billions of mobile phone numbers, according to the Xinhua News Agency.

据新华社报道，11位数字可构成数百亿个手机号码。

Over billions of years, the gas was compressed by gravity into galaxies, stars, plants and eventually, even humans.

在数十亿年的时间里，这些气体被引力压缩成星系、恒星、植物，最终甚至变成了人类。

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

“最终的人脸识别算法应该能在一个数据集里处理数十亿人的数据。”研究人员写道。

Billions of people use social media on a daily basis to create, share, and exchange ideas, messages, and information.

数十亿人每天都在使用社交媒体来创造、分享和交流想法、消息以及信息。

Take, for example, John Paulson, the hedge-fund guru who made billions of dollars predicting America's housing crisis.

拿对冲基金专家约翰·保尔森为例，他因预测美国的房屋供给危机而赚了数十亿美元。

The latest statistics show that the United States is continuing to pump billions of dollar annually into such projects.

最新的统计数据显示，美国每年向这些项目注入数十亿美元。

Astrogeologists suspect that these scarps having formed billions of years ago as the planet's surface cooled and shrank.

太空地质学家猜测这些陡坡是在几十亿年前当行星表面冷却收缩时开始形成的。

Americans spend billions of dollars each year trying to change our weight with diets, gym memberships and plastic surgery.

美国人每年花费数十亿美元，试图通过饮食、健身和整形手术来改变体重。

They (particularly Quebec and Alberta) just want Ottawa to fork over additional billions with few, if any, strings attached.

他们（尤其是魁北克省和阿尔伯塔省）只是想让渥太华在没有任何附加条件的情况下再支付数十亿美元。

Drug companies have spent billions of dollars searching for therapies to reverse or significantly slow Alzheimer's disease, but in vain.

医药公司已经花费数十亿美元以寻找能逆转或显著减缓阿尔茨海默病的治疗方法，但毫无结果。

The guidelines drive billions of dollars of food production through federal programs like school lunches and nutrition assistance for the needy.

这些指导方针通过如学校午餐和营养援助穷人这些联邦项目推动了数十亿美元的食品生产。

The government is planning to invest billions in a system of canals, pipelines and aqueducts to divert water from the soggy south to the parched north.

政府正在计划投资几十亿建一个由水渠、水管和高架水道构成的系统，将水从潮湿的南方转调到干旱的北方。

The Supreme Court's opinion Thursday overruled a pair of decades-old decisions that states said cost them billions of dollars in lost revenue annually.

美国最高法院周四的裁决推翻了两项执行长达数十年之久的裁决。据各州称，这两项裁决曾使他们每年损失数十亿美元的税收收入。

They have these special organs that collect the hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide and then transfer it to another organ, where billions of bacteria live.

他们有这些特殊的器官来收集硫化氢和二氧化碳，然后把它们转移到另一个器官，那里有数十亿的细菌。

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，但房主和这些银行掠夺性放贷行为的受害者们只得到了一小部分。

Not only did they develop such a device but by the turn of the millennium they had also managed to embed it in a worldwide system accessed by billions of people every day.

他们不仅开发了这样一种设备，而且在世纪之交，他们还成功地将其嵌入到每天有数十亿人访问的全球系统中。