billion 四级高考

1.half a billion dollars.

五亿美元。

2.a ￡49 billion debt write-off

49亿英镑负债的注销

3.the problem persists despite the billions spent on it.

尽管花了数十亿英镑，问题依然存在。

4.15 billion cubic metres of water.

150亿立方米的水。

5.some $12.8 billion was funnelled through the Marshall Plan.

128亿美元通过马歇尔计划输送出来了。

6.a $400 billion price tag was put on the venture.

家企业被标以4,000亿美元。

7.the government spent £3 billion in an attempt to prop up the pound.

政府用30亿英镑支撑英镑。

8.they are facing an expected $10 billion shortfall in revenue.

他们在收入方面面临100亿美元的赤字。

9.The budget should hit the $136 billion target on the nose.

预算应正好达到1 360亿元的目标。

10.1.5 billion cubic metres of earth were/was moved.

共搬运土方15亿立方米。

11.government waste has bilked the taxpayer of billions dollars.

纳税人的几百亿美元被政府骗来铺张浪费掉了。

12.our immune systems are killing billions of germs right now.

我们的免疫系统此刻正在杀灭亿万个细。

13.weighed around 30 pounds; around $1.3 billion in debt.

30磅；大13亿美元的欠债

14.two billion barrels of oil that could lift this nation out of chronic poverty.

足以使个国家摆脱长期贫困的20亿桶石油。

15.a plan to liquidate £1 billion worth of property over seven years.

七年内将价值10亿英镑的资产变现的计划。

16.Borrowing is set to soar to an astonishing ￡60 billion.

借款很可能猛增至惊人的600 亿英镑。

17.when entrepreneurs get to $1 billion they crap out and turn their companies over to others.

当企业家挣到10亿美元时，他们不再继续干，将公司转让给了他人。

18.he savaged the government for wasting billions in their failed bid to prop up the pound.

他猛烈抨击政府浪费数十亿支持英镑的失败努力。

19.Here's the cyanea's-eye view of a reef flat that seems like nothing but a couple of billion hidey-holes.

是霞水母章鱼看到的珊瑚，看起来什么也没有，只有上亿个隐蔽的小孔。

20.Bush misspoke as he delivered a speech at the signing ceremony for a $417 billion defense spending bill.

布什在为4170亿美元的防务经费提案签字时错话连篇.