"The costs of doing nothing are trillions of dollars in costs over the next couple of decades, not billions, but trillions in costs without anybody getting better care,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

I like Thai food just fine, but the prospect of having Thai food day after day after day-- for thousands, millions, billions, trillions of years no longer seems an attractive proposal.

我也喜欢泰国菜，但是想到日复一日-,吃上几十亿年,看似不再是美妙提议。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It's one of the most rapidly changing, hard to keep up with areas because someone can set up an electronic exchange overnight and suddenly become a base for trading trillions of dollars of securities.

经纪业是一个变化最快的行业之一,人们很难跟上它的步伐,因为人们可以在头一天晚上,设置一个电子交易,一夜之间,他就能在证券市场赚到千亿美金

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"Basically,trillions of dollars change hands every day between the banks.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

But selling the proposed budget on Capitol Hill became harder after Friday's report from the Congressional Budget Office, which projects significantly higher budget deficits than the administration estimates over the next decade, adding trillions of dollars to the national debt.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

"They are so complicated that if you tried to estimate how many ways you can make a snowflake, you get a huge number not just billions or trillions, but bigger than the number of atoms in the universe.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

The economy needs help. But rather than stimulating the economy by providing an improved incentives to work and invest, we have been devoting trillions of dollars in taxpayer money to expanding and creating permanent long-term government spending programs and income-redistribution mechanisms,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.03