Thousands of miners have been thrown on the scrapheap with no jobs and no prospects.
数千矿工被解雇,没有工作,也没有前途。
No one really knows how many different faces someone can recall, for example, but various estimates tend to hover in the thousands—based on the number of acquaintances a person might have.
例如,没人确切地知道一个人究竟能记住多少张不同的面孔,但是各类评估倾向于几千张上下——依据一个人可能相识的人数来判断。
From the outside, she looked no different from thousands of other sheep born on surrounding farms.
从外表看,她和在周边农场中出生的成千上万只羊没有什么不同。
Many thousands of spectators gathered from all parts of Greece, but no married woman was admitted even as a spectator.
成千上万的观众从希腊各地聚集而来,但已婚妇女甚至不能作为观众入场。
Thousands of years ago, Britain was covered by thick forests, home to many animals which no longer live in the United Kingdom.
几千年前,英国被茂密的森林覆盖着,是许多动物的家园,这些动物已经不在英国生活了。
But there are still hundred, maybe thousands, of disease blind spots around the world - where no one knows what they have to watch for, or what they must report.
但是全球仍存在着上百,或许是上千的疾病盲点,在那里人们不知道他们必须注意什么,或者他们必须报告什么。
People felt that a year had been wasted, that thousands had died for no real purpose.
北方人觉得这一年白白的浪费了,而且还有数以千计的人不明不白地就死了。
Thousands of years ago, there was no television or Internet, no McDonald's, birth-control pills, Viagra, plastic surgery, alarm clocks, artificial lighting or paternity tests.
几千年前,没有电视和互联网,没有麦当劳,没有避孕药、伟哥、整形手术、闹钟、人工照明和亲子鉴定。
Boatyards around the country hold thousands of old boats no one will ever buy.
全国的船厂有着成千艘无人问津的旧船。
Then he discovered that merely applying for permission to fly would cost thousands of dollars and require an interagency meeting with no guarantee of approval.
后来他发现仅仅是申请飞行许可证就要花费数千美金,而且要举行跨部门会议,尽管这样仍无批准的把握。
No one can stop what our fathers and forefathers have done for thousands of years.
没有人能够阻止我们父亲和祖先在几千年前所做的。
I had no idea there were so many of them (thousands).
我不知道竟然有这么多对冲基金(上千个)。
This stone spearhead is by no means unique; it is just one of thousands that have been found across North America, from Alaska to Mexico.
这石矛头决不是独一无二的,仅仅是几千件之一;出土的大量石矛头遍布了从阿拉斯加到墨西哥的北美各地。
Musical instruments have been found dating back tens of thousands of years. Yet no one knows why we love music, or what function, if any, it serves.
虽然乐器的发明可以追溯到成千上万年之前,每有活动,便有音乐,但却没有人知道为什么我们如此迷恋。
The millennium came to America with lots of celebration and no terror, a tribute to the hard work of thousands of people, and perhaps to a bit of luck as well.
美国迎来了一个充满庆典活动的新千年,而且没有遭到恐怖袭击。这要归功于成千上万人的辛勤工作,或许还有一点运气。
He mentioned the many thousands of civilian and military deaths here and said his country looked to no one for recognition.
他提到成千上万的平民和军人的死亡,他表示,他的国家不需要任何人的认同。
Pointing and focusing a laser beam on a target that is rocketing skyward at thousands of miles per hour is no easy task, but the Airborne laser is uniquely able to do the job.
对于飞行速度每小时数千英里的目标进行激光束瞄准和聚焦并不容易,但机载激光器是唯一能够完成这项工作。
It's no different today — we'll fly thousands of miles or drive hundreds of miles to visit family or friends for just a few days.
这在今天也并没有任何的不同,我们可能乘坐飞机到数千英里以外、或者驾车数百英里,回到家乡或去朋友家住上几天。
"But there are tens of thousands of chemicals on the market for which there has been little or no safety testing," she said.
但市场上还有成千上万种化学物质,而对这些物质的安全性却很少、甚至从来没有进行过检查。
Missoula has hundreds, maybe thousands, of artists and writers, in part—but by no means exclusively—because of the university.
米苏拉有几百名——或者说几千名艺术家和作家居住于此,这部分是——但肯定不完全是——由于这所大学。
The fees for this advice are no fairy tale—some play out to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
这项咨询服务的收费可就不如童话中那么美好了——有些高达成百上千美元。
When middlemen say they have delivered so many bags of rice to so many thousands of peasants, there is no way to tell if they are lying.
当中间人声称他们已向成千上万农民交付了如此多袋大米时,他们是否在说谎无法分辨。
Casual detentions of thousands of Afghan men, on no good evidence, have also done damage.
联军没有理由随便拘谨上千的阿富汗人,也有很坏的影响。
As the days and nights get colder - reaching sub-zero temperatures - thousands of people in the alpine areas still have no adequate shelter.
随着昼夜日益寒冷-气温降至零度以下-高山地区成千上万的人仍然没有适当的栖身之处。
Presumably, no one wants to nationalize all the Banks, thousands of which are healthy.
全部银行国有化并不是大家的期望,因为尚有几千家银行能保持正常运营。
Tracking the performance of traders who take on thousands of positions, some of them hedges, is no small task.
交易员们操纵着数以千计的盘,其中一些还是对冲的,要跟踪他们的表现不是一件轻而易举的事。
Survivors are living outside in overcrowded camps with little or no sanitation.Makeshift hospitals are struggling to treat thousands of injured.
遇难者的尸体在继续被集体埋葬。幸存者居住在拥挤的露天营地,几乎没有任何卫生条件。
It was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars but, crucially, had no phone or Internet connection.
它价值几十万美元,然而,这里既没有电话也没有互联网接入。
It was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars but, crucially, had no phone or Internet connection.
它价值几十万美元,然而,这里既没有电话也没有互联网接入。
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