"If children were exclusively breastfed for six months, continued to breastfeed up to two years, with appropriate additional food from six months onwards, we could save 1.5 million children under five years of age out the 8.8 million that we estimate to die currently every year."

VOA: special.2010.08.04

If you transfer this ratio to a city like New York City, with 8 million people.

我们不妨用纽约这座,拥有八百万人口的城市来诠释这个比例。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

If these 8 million people , would correspond to the number of neurons in the brain, the equivalent of the hair cells that you could get out of a single cochlea would be equivalent to one person walking down 42nd street.

如果这八百万人,相当于大脑中的神经元数量的话，能从一个耳蜗内取出的毛细胞,就好比是,第42大街上的某位行人。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

Out of the 5.8 million votes deemed valid so far, the incumbent has three million while the top challenger has just more than half that amount.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

I think people should be able to do that without having to convince 280 million people.

本应不用说服2亿8千万人,就能拥有这些权利的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

But a survey of advertisers and media buyers by ad researcher TNS Media Intelligence says in 2010, that same commercial is selling for between $2.5 to $2.8 million.

VOA: standard.2010.01.27

It turns out that if you look at the 2.5--sorry, the quarter million people on the movie database and compute their Bacon number, 2.8 the average Bacon number is 2.8.

结果发现，这2。5…对不起，如果你算一下电影数据库里这25万人，他们的平均Bacon数为。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Holmes also complained that his agency has received only $3.8 million of the $23.5 million that was called for in early September to help victims of the fighting.

VOA: standard.2009.10.11

But,the vast majority or 1.8 million people are living in host communities.

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

Last year,the estimated regional economic impact was over $12.8 million.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

"Thus far,we have allocated over $620 billion of the Act, and as a result, the Recovery Act is responsible for somewhere between 2.3 and 2.8 million jobs that were either saved or created."

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

Democrat Carolyn Maloney asked him about economist's predictions that it would take the country to full employment: "Assuming that jobs are created at 2.8 million jobs per year, the best job creation of any administration, and this was achieved by former President Clinton, how long would you expect it to take us to get back to full employment?" "Well,without offering an opinion on that 10.7 million jobs, at that rate though, it would be about three years."

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

"Japan every year throws away about 20 million tons of food, worldwide food aid is only about 8.5 million tons.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

A staggering 8.4 million jobs have been lost and the unemployment rate remains near double digits.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

"The bad news is that we still have 1.8-million deaths per year from tuberculosis.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09