But the sight of workers wearing white protective suits and gloves hauling in tons of oil-contaminated waste - including bags of sandy tar balls, vegetation,used oil booms, rags and other clean-up supplies - has caused alarm among some Gulf coast communities.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

I mean, you grew up in an age when computers were blazingly fast, and have tons of memory, so why in the world do you care about efficiency?

我的意思是你们是伴随着,计算机快速发展成长的，计算机都有这么大的内存,那还在乎效率干嘛呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

there's tons of places in New York to get like, happy hour drink or stuff like that.

在纽约的很多地方，你都可以喝喝酒，度过欢乐时光。

交新朋友的方法 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But that does not include costs like the tons of flowers that growers in Kenya and Israel had to destroy.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

It contains an million tons of magnesium, 1,000,000 tons, which is more than has ever been produced in one year by all the magnesium plants in the world.

它含有一百万吨镁，一百万吨，那比我们每年世界各地,生产镁的工厂的总产量还要多。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But in time, huge machines were built that could wash many tons of dirt at a time.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

He was very famous when I was in graduate school tons and tons of years ago.

我读研究生时他已经非常有名了,多少年前了

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But it threatens more than thirty million tons a year of production in East Africa.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

There are tons of museums in New York that should all be, all be visited.

纽约有很多很多博物馆，都应该去参观。

关于购买艺术品 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Studies show that global sugar consumption has risen dramatically from 11 million tons in 1900 to about 145 million tons today.

VOA: standard.2010.04.25

And when we talk about any type of ion channel, there are just tons of different kinds of ion channels, and you can characterize them in a few different ways.

而当我们讨论任何一种离子通道时，离子通道有非常多种，你可以用几种不同的方法来描述它们。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Emergency coordinator Javier Escobedo says the organization plans to distribute 500 metric tons of bean seeds to farmers in the area.

VOA: standard.2010.04.02

Also, there's tons of little gardens in the city that I like to visit.

城市里有各式各样的小花园，我喜欢去那里。

喜欢多样性 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Of the 400,000 tons of cotton it produced last year, far less than one percent actually stayed in the country.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

So there's tons of dogs and animals running around in the daytime.

所以在白天，有很多狗和其他动物到处乱跑。

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Iron ore production in the three months hit 32.45 million metric tons, up from 29.4 million tons a year earlier.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

There's going to be tons of bands. I'm your MC, in fact.

会有好多的乐队。其实，我就是主持。

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The United States brought in 45 metric tons of plastic sheeting,hygiene kits, and generators to help victims of the Indonesian earthquake.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

I noticed that there are tons of tourists here in London.

我注意到伦敦有大量的游客。

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Rice is a staple food in Cuba and the country consumes more than 700,000 tons of rice a year.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

The've collected tons of oily waste that's now being dumped in landfills in Alabama,Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

A total of 30 small-scale pineapple farmers in Ghana saw sales grow from 26 tons to more than 115 tons after gaining their organic certification.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

Although smaller than the MRAP, the M-ATV is still an imposing vehicle, half-again as tall as the average person and weighing in at 18 metric tons.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

First,he had 1,500 tons of debris removed from a Russian field station in Antarctica.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

Akhonzadeh said Iran seizes about three tons of opium on its border every day, noting that drug profits are used to fund terrorist networks in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

But at the same time, there is virtually no infrastructure in place within Japan to get those tons of food out to individuals out there who need it,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

The World Gold Council recently forecast gold mine output to climb by four percent in 2009 to about 2,500 metric tons, but that will meet only two-thirds of demand.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

West Africa's mangrove forests absorb thousands of tons of carbon dioxide, and could be a way for the region to get a foothold in the $136-billion carbon world market.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

Cassela says the World Food Program has delivered 117 metric tons of food to the region this month and hopes to deliver a total of 435 metric tons in August.

VOA: standard.2009.08.08

The Reserve Bank has paid The addition of 200 tons of gold means that about six percent of the Reserve Bank's foreign exchange reserves are now in gold, up from four percent.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06