汉森按约定出价3.51亿美元进行收购。
监察长同时辩解道，这次租赁本身也使纳税人少交了几乎10亿美元（已经离开芝市府的列文森说收费价格是公平合理的）。
The lease itself, the inspector-general argued, short-changed taxpayers by almost $1 billion. (Mr Levenson, who had already left city government, says the price was fair.)
沃森可以在3秒钟以内评估相当于数亿页的材料，比如书籍，报告，文章等
Watson can evaluate the equivalent of hundreds of millions of pages of material—books, reports, articles and so on—in 3 seconds or less.
劳森说：“你可以开始计算那300亿美元能作什么用途。
"You can begin to count what that $30 billion could pay for, " said Lawson.
“这个结果让我们大吃一惊，”拉斯姆森说，特别是因为那些锆石样本自身的年龄已经有33.4亿- 42.4亿年了。
"This was a big surprise to us," Rasmussen says, especially because the zircons themselves ranged in age from 3.34 billion and 4.24 billion years old.
美国财长亨利·保尔森宣布向消费信贷市场注入2000亿美元，他承认上个月，数百万美国人都没能从银行借出一分钱。
US treasury secretary Henry Paulson announced plans to pump $200bn into the consumer credit market after admitting that millions of Americans could not borrow any money last month.
像掌管370亿美金资产的保尔森基金的约翰保尔森，他由于成功做空房地产泡沫而出名，但现在受关注的原因却不那么光彩。
Take John Paulson of Paulson &Co, a $37 billion hedge fund. He became famous after he bet against the housing bubble but is now in the limelight for less flattering reasons.
相比之下，虽然巴西人会在北部跳弗乐，在南部跳森巴，但他们的种族分布均匀，同说一种语言，1.9亿人口生活在同一片广阔的大地上。
By comparison, Brazilians may dance the forró in the north and the samba in the south, but theirs is a pretty homogeneous and monolingual country of 190m, all on one land mass.
迪克尔森所说的无人机监视系统包括无人机、地面控制设备以及载荷，从现在起，到2014年，该市场的总价价值将达到136亿美元。
Dickerson says the market for UAV Reconnaissance Systems, including air vehicles, ground control equipment, and payloads, is expected to be worth ＄13.6 billion through 2014.
但是这些星系，也就是希克森致密星系群31的成员，距离我们相对较近，只有1.66亿光年。
But these galaxies, members of Hickson Compact Group 31, are relatively nearby, only 166 million light-years away.
澳大利亚能源部长马丁·费格森说“戈尔工”和“普路托”工程可以在八年内使澳大利亚每年的液化天然气出口价值加倍到240亿澳元。
Martin Ferguson, Australia's Resources Minister, says Gorgon and Pluto could double the value of Australia's LNG exports to A$24 billion a year in eight years.
据汤姆森金融公司（Thomson Financial）报道，分析人士普遍希望该季度苹果公司能够实现营收297亿美元。
The analyst consensus for the quarter was calling for Apple to report revenue of $29.7 billion according to Thomson Financial.
和蒂森克虏伯在困难中需要保护不一样的是：在2006年最后一个季度，公司的税前收益飙升到10亿欧元（约13亿美元）销售额是120亿欧元。
It is not as if ThyssenKrupp is in trouble and needs protection: in the final quarter of 2006 its pre-tax profits surged to euro1 billion ($1.3 billion) on sales of euro12 billion.
在美国《福布斯》杂志最新公布的世界足球俱乐部价值榜上，曼联以18.6亿美元的估值连续7年蝉联榜首，皇马再次屈居第二，排在第三的是阿森纳。
For the 7th consecutive year, Manchester United is No 1 on the Forbes list ranking the most valuable soccer teams, with a value of $1.86b. Real Madrid is again No 2, followed by Arsenal.
9月18日，尽管萨缪尔森抛出了96亿欧元（122亿美元）现金加股票的收购价，但大众和银瑞达仍在数小时内发表声明，拒绝了这一竞价。
On September 18th, when Mr Samuelsson launched a euro9.6 billion ($12.2 billion) cash-and shares bid anyway, VW and Investor issued statements within hours to turn down MAN's offer.
两个人对彼此都不陌生——格林斯潘即是保尔森旗下保尔森公司，360亿美元的对冲基金的顾问。
The two men are no strangers — Mr. Greenspan is a consultant at Mr. Paulson’s $36 billion hedge fund, Paulson &Company.
1969年，一颗陨石落到了澳大利亚的莫奇森（Murchison），这块46亿年的岩石地球诞生之前的太阳系样本。
The 4.6 billion-year-old rock is a sample of the solar system from before the birth of our planet.
在这张有趣的望远镜影像中我们可以看见4个明显的星系，这个星系群被称为希克森44星系群，在狮子座方向上距离我们大约1亿光年远。
The four prominent galaxies seen in this intriguing telescopic skyscape are one such group, Hickson 44, about 100 million light-years distant toward the constellation Leo.
麦克森是美国最大的医疗提供者。在去年支付22亿美元收购U.S.Oncology后大幅度扩展了它已经利润丰厚的癌症治疗业务。
The nation's largest health-care provider greatly expanded its already extensive cancer treatment business when it bought U.S. Oncology for $2.2 billion last December.
沃伦巴菲特出资3亿美元接下哈雷戴维森公司的债务。
Warren Buffett bought half of a $600m debt offering from Harley-Davidson .
哈佛大学贝克曼互联网与社会研究中心（Berkman Centerfor Internet &Society）的联席董事乔纳森·齐特林（JonathanZittrain ）说“你也具备拥有50亿个监视点的可能性”。
“You also have the prospect of having 5 billion surveillance points, ” says Jonathan Zittrain, codirector of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet &Society.
1990年，印度经济学家阿马蒂·亚森认为消失的妇女数量高达1亿人，而现在这一数字只会更高。
In 1990 an Indian economist, Amartya Sen, put the number at 100m; the toll is higher now.
森德伯格说：“将近有5亿人生活在我们所谓的脆弱国家。
“There are close to half a billion people living in what we call fragile states,” Sundberg says.
全球最大的电缆生产商法国耐克森公司（Nexans）股价上涨2.3%，至54.36欧元，该公司开始进行谈判，准备以7.31亿欧元（10亿美元）收购荷兰德拉卡电缆公司（Draka）。
Nexans SA climbed 2.3 percent to 54.36 euros as the world’s biggest maker of cables started talks to buy Dutch rival Draka Holding NV for about 731 million euros ($1 billion).
劳森说：“你可以发现八国集团正在逐渐偏离他们作出的每年500亿美元的承诺。
You can see that the G8 are keen to gradually step away from the promises they made ... to increase aid by 50 billion [dollars].
尼森网络统计公司称，美国网民约两亿两千三百万，只能屈居第二。
America must make do with second place, with around 223m users according to Nielsen, an internet-ratings company.
尼森网络统计公司称，美国网民约两亿两千三百万，只能屈居第二。
America must make do with second place, with around 223m users according to Nielsen, an internet-ratings company.
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