I'd learned that our world is a rocky planet, orbiting one star among the 100 billion others in our galaxy, which is but one of hundreds of billions of galaxies scattered throughout the universe.
我知道我们的星球是一个多岩石的星球，在银河系1000亿多个行星中围绕着一个星球在转，地球只是整个宇宙几千亿个星球之一。
Around 1.2 billion people live in places that are short of water, and it is running out in others such as northern China and western America.
世界上约有12亿人生活在缺水地区，而其它地区比如中国北部和美国西部，则正面临着水资源日益枯竭的局面。
The New York Times and others reported that Yahoo had made a $1 billion offer to buy Facebook--and Zuckerberg and his partners had turned it down.
纽约时代杂志和其他一些新闻媒体报道雅虎提出愿以10亿美金收购Facebook，但是扎克伯格和他的合伙人却拒绝了这一报价。
With 1.5 billion apps downloaded, it is going to be very hard for others to catch up.
15亿次的下载量让其它公司很难赶上。
Others are also eyeing Marcona's location, including an American fertilizer manufacturer that plans to build a $1 billion plant here.
一家美国化肥生产企业也看中了这里，他们计划在这里投入1亿美元盖一座工厂。
For others, it represents the excess and inequality of the modern world; a world where nearly a billion people have no access to clean water at all.
对另一些人来说，这意味着现代世界无节制，不平等；世界上还有近10亿人根本没有干净的饮用水。
The fund’s ceiling was raised to euro50 billion last spring, to cope with the potential need for emergency loans to Hungary and others.
去年春天，该基金至多可筹集500亿欧元，以备向匈牙利等国提供紧急贷款的不时之需。
About 1 billion people are still without access to a decent water supply, while others suffer from flooding, pollution and poor sanitation.
大约有10亿人仍旧没有充足的水供给。然而还有一些人遭受着洪水，水污染以及恶劣的公共卫生环境的威胁。
Others in the $40 billion pet industry are still chewing on the idea.
价值400亿美元的宠物市场中的其他人也在打算这么做。
It can also be lucrative: BoNY and Mellon made combined net profits of $1.88 billion from servicing others' assets in the first nine months of the year.
而且，也极具利润空间：在今年的前九个月，纽约银行与梅隆从该业务获取的净利润合计18.8亿美金。
"Babies are born with 100 billion neurons, " he says. "During the first years of life, some are salvaged and the others are left to wither. We call that synaptic pruning.
波尔穆特说：“婴儿出生时就有一千亿个神经细胞，在他们的婴幼儿时期，这些细胞中的一部分会被利用，其它的就任其退化死亡，我们把这一过程叫做突触削减。”
"Babies are born with 100 billion neurons, " he says. "During the first years of life, some are salvaged and the others are left to wither. We call that synaptic pruning.
波尔穆特说：“婴儿出生时就有一千亿个神经细胞，在他们的婴幼儿时期，这些细胞中的一部分会被利用，其它的就任其退化死亡，我们把这一过程叫做突触削减。”
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