Though technically feasible budging such a hefty target - with a mass in excess of a million tons - would not be easy.
即使技术上可行，移动一个如此巨大的目标——远超过一百万吨——也将是不易的。
After the Colorado river flooded in 1905, it took 1500 workers and half a million tons of rock to put the river back on course.
1905年科罗拉多河泛滥后，1500名工作者用了50万吨石头才把它归位。
David Fowler: A particular brand reduces a million tons of CO2, but a much more meaningful way to unlock the equity there is to say that’s like eliminating 183, 000 cars off the road.
大卫·弗勒：某品牌产品发挥的作用是减少100万吨二氧化碳排放，但是诠释其价值更有意义方法是这样描述：效果如同消除了公路上183 000辆奔跑的汽车带给环境的影响。
What's more, demand for animal products in developing countries is growing so fast that meeting it will require an extra 300 million tons of grain a year by 2050.
此外，发展中国家对动物产品的需求增长如此之快，以至于到2050年时每年将需要额外增加3亿吨谷物才能满足需求。
If China could put 6.67 million hectares of saline-alkali soil into rice production, it would be very likely to increase by around 30 million tons, a huge contribution to the country.
如果中国能把667万公顷的盐碱地用于水稻生产，很可能会增加3000万吨左右水稻，这是对国家的一个巨大贡献。
Indonesia is the second largest ocean plastic polluter, producing up to 2.4 million tons of plastic waste into the oceans every year according to a report.
一份报告显示，印度尼西亚是第二大海洋塑料污染国，每年向海洋排放多达240万吨塑料垃圾。
The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture finds that between 2005—when the government started a soil-testing program that gives specific fertilizer recommendations to farmers—and 2011, fertilizer use dropped by 7.7 million tons.
2005年，政府开始了一项土壤测试项目，为农民提供具体的肥料建议。中国农业部发现，从2005年到2011年，化肥使用量下降了770万吨。
Officials in Bangladesh say that country produced a record eight million tons this season.
孟加拉国的官员说，该国创下了该季度产土豆八百万吨的记录。
Also still pending is a deal for the export of five million tons of liquefied natural gas over 25 years from Iran to India.
伊朗和印度之间还需要签署的另外一项协议是，伊朗要在25年期间向印度出口5百万吨液化天然气。
In fact, these underground blazes burn through an estimated 20 million tons of coal a year, the equivalent of the entire coal production of Germany last year.
据估算，实际上这些地下潜燃的火光一年要烧尽约2 000万吨的煤，要知道这可相当于德国去年全国上下总产煤量！
Despite droughts in a large part of north China, grain output reached 492.5 million tons.
在北方大面积干旱的情况下，全国粮食产量仍达到49,250万吨。
The Thai rice Exporters Association says there is a shortfall of 30 million tons in world rice stockpiles.
泰国的大米出口商协会说，世界大米的储存出现了三千万吨的短缺。
Last May, it pledged a half-million tons of food, 80 percent of which was to be distributed by the World food Program.
美国去年五月承诺了50万吨的粮食援助，其中有80%通过世界粮食计划署分发了出去。
She noted that the US wastes around 222 million tons of food a year which amounts to Africa’s total food production.
她指出，美国每年浪费二亿二千二百万吨粮食，相当于非洲粮食年产量。
Even during the Cold War, the United States exported 10 million tons of wheat - nearly a quarter of the U.S. harvest - to the Soviet Union in 1972 after a crop failure there.
甚至在冷战期间，美国向苏联出口了1000万吨小麦——这接近总量的四分之一——1972年苏联的谷物颗粒无收。
Last year, Russia was the world's third largest wheat producer with a harvest of nearly 100 million tons.
去年，俄罗斯是世界上第三大小麦生产国，产量将近一亿吨。
The company sold about 69.6 million tons of ore and pellets in the quarter, a 29 percent gain from a year ago.
该公司在第二季度售出6969万吨铁矿石和铁球团，销量同比增长29%。
One arc furnace with capacity of 180 tons is under construction now.It will produce 1 million 300 thousand tons of steel a year. 600 employees are working here.It will be launched in spring 2012.
一个容量180吨的电弧炉正在建设中，它一年将生产一百三十万吨钢铁，有600个工人在这里工作，它将落成于2012年的春天。
A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.
一颗中子星很微量的一部分，重量也会超过1亿吨。
The blast has been estimated at equivalent to 10-15 million tons of TNT - enough to destroy a large city.
估计那次爆炸的威力相当于一千到一千五百万吨TNT——足以摧毁一座大城市。
Nearly half a million bottled drinks and 18 tons of juice powder have been pulled from the shelves.
接近100万瓶瓶装饮料和18吨果汁粉已经下架了。
Studies suggest as much as 900 million metric tons of carbon a year could be locked up this way—and improve the soil's ability to grow crops as well.
一系列研究发现，通过此方法每年将有高达9亿公吨的碳会被锁定——同时改良土壤肥力更好地种植各种谷物。
Potash Corp. has the capacity to produce more than 10 million tons of potash a year, mostly from mines in Saskatchewan.
加拿大钾肥公司的钾肥生产能力达到每年1000万吨以上，原料主要来自萨斯喀彻温省的矿山。
The thermal coal market will swing into a deficit this year, with demand globally to outpace supply by 15 million metric tons, according to Deutsche Bank said in a June 30 report.
据德意志银行6月30日的一篇报告所说，由于全球的需求量比供应量多约1500万吨，今年的动力煤市场将出现赤字。
The mine, according to the Financial Times, could produce as much as 70 million tons of iron ore a year.
金融时报称，这个矿的年产量可达7000万吨。
He said national demand of iron and steel reaches nine million tons a year while production only reaches five million tons and so four million tons more have to be imported.
他说国家对铁和钢材的需求达到每年900万吨，然而产量仅达500万吨，因此还有400万吨必须进口。
Net crude oil imports in July rose to a record 19.2 million tons, according to the customs data.
按海关数据，7月原油净进口量上升，创1920万吨的新高。
In the worst recent case, 1, 700 people died after a 1986 earthquake released 1.2 million metric tons of CO2 from the depths of Lake Nyos in Cameroon, the International Energy Agency said.
根据国际能源署的资料，近年来最坏的一次发生在1986年喀麦隆。 由于地震的引发，120万吨二氧化碳从尼奥斯湖中泄露出来，导致1700人死亡。
State media: The pipeline will move 15 million tons of crude oil a year until 2030.
国家媒体：2030年前，管道将每年输送1 500万吨的原油。
State media: The pipeline will move 15 million tons of crude oil a year until 2030.
国家媒体：2030年前，管道将每年输送1 500万吨的原油。
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