Time dollars work on the principle that an hour of one person's time is worth the same as an hour of someone else's.
时间货币运作的原则是：一个人的一小时与其他人的一小时等值。
In Maine, where paper mills and shoe manufacturers have closed, time dollars buy everything from guitar lessons to yard work -even prayer.
在缅因州，造纸厂和鞋厂都已经关闭，人们可以用时间货币购买任何服务，包括吉他课程、后院劳作，甚至祈祷服务。
By the time she was 13, her company was worth millions of dollars with the invention of a super-sweet treat that could save kids' teeth, instead of destroying them.
在她13岁的时候，她的公司市值就达到了数百万美元，因为公司发明了一种超级甜食，不仅不会破坏孩子们的牙齿，而且对其有利。
The last time she asked for five dollars to pay for her dry cleaning, I just told her I couldn't spare it.
上次她要我给她5美元付干洗费，我只告诉她我没有多余的钱。
At the same time, they provide state and local governments with billions of dollars of revenue.
与此同时，它们为州和地方政府提供了数十亿美元的收入。
It depends. It usually costs about 20 to 50 dollars. Last time I paid 25.
视情况而定。通常花费20到50美元。上次我付了25美元。
He said, "I will ask you one last time: will you sell it for 3,000 dollars?"
他说：“我再问你最后一次，你会以3000美元的价格卖掉它吗？”
Von Badinski pays the airline 2, 300 dollars monthly so that he can fly freely at any time to and from San Francisco.
冯·巴丁斯基每月向航空公司支付2，300美元，这样他就可以在任何时候自由飞行，往返于旧金山。
It's not difficult to earn a couple thousand dollars each year doing something you love in your free time.
每年在你的空闲时间里做一些你喜欢的事来赚几千美元是不困难的。
The best branding statements usually incorporate figures in dollars or percentages of money, or time that was gained or saved over a certain period.
最好的陈述通常混合了美元数目或者是个百分比，再或者是在一个确定的时期能能够节省多少时间。
If that happens, your monthly payments will be low and you'd get to repay the principal over time with devalued dollars.
如果发生这种情况，你的月度供款会较低，你可以在一定时间内用贬值的美元逐渐偿还掉本金。
At that time the Yale endowment was actually slightly under one billion dollars.
在那时，耶鲁的基金，实际上略少于十亿美元。
It doesn't help that many big Western hedge funds are accustomed to asking for tens of millions of dollars at a time.
这些情况不利于很多大型西方对冲基金公司，他们往往习惯于一次性要求成千上万美元。
An optimistic bill to get to Mars would come to half a trillion dollars over time.
随着时间，到达火星最乐观也需要五千亿美元。
He also developed a taste for enormously expensive and tasteless furnishings, reportedly spending up to a million dollars a time in Las Vegas's shopping malls.
他还养成了高价买二流货的习惯，据说，他曾在拉斯维加斯的购物中心一次花掉一百万美元。
Any time a consumer is doing self-service, you're also driving Labour dollars out of your business.
无论任何时候消费者都是自助服务，零售商也可以去除人工劳力成本。
The tags cost 3500 dollars each, and then satellite time is another 500 dollars, so you're like, oh, I hope the tag is okay.
每个标签耗费3500美元，租用卫星再花500美元，所以你要，哦，我希望标签也没事。
If 10 people fail, maybe you have lost their time and a couple million dollars, but if a space shuttle blows up and the whole thing is a disaster, you have lost a trillion dollars.
如果一个10人团队失败，你可能损失了他们的时间和200万美元而已，但是如果一艘航天飞机爆炸，整个是一个大灾难，那你损失了一万亿美元。
Considering my salary back then, I spent over a thousand dollars' worth of my time - and wasn't entitled to a penny in damages.
想想当时我所损失的时间，若折算成工资得有1000多美元，而这笔损失没人给我一个子儿的赔偿。
The advertisement was aired during prime time around the country and cost more than three-million dollars.
这个广告在全国各地的黄金时段播出，花费超过3百万美元。
The scientists next put the volunteers in a brain scanner and had them bid up to five dollars a time for food and other objects, such as baseball caps and T-shirts, that flashed up on a screen.
接下来，科学家们会对志愿者的大脑活动进行观测，让他们对闪现在屏幕上的食物和其他物品（例如棒球帽和T恤）进行5美元一次的出价。
So teachers had to pay some 20 dollars a month which at the time constituted some 5% of their monthly wage.
因此，教师们只需要每个月支付20美元(20美元相当于教师每月百分之五的薪水左右)就可以了。
John Wagoner, a 63-year-old accountant and Kindle owner in Plano, Tex., said that if e-book prices went much higher than $13 he would simply commit his time and dollars to other activities.
一个拥有Kindle的63岁的退休会计约翰.瓦格纳说如果电子书价格高于13美元，他就会把钱与时间花在其他活动上。 “它们只是书而已，”瓦格纳先生说，“我不再阅读，做点别的也行。”
Tomorrow, we'll take this "time" budget and convert it all into real dollars - and begin the process of converting all this planning into some real action.
明天，我们将拿出这份“时间”预算，并把它转化为实际的金钱——同时开始把这些计划转化为实际的行动。
To date, only a handful of civilians have gone into space as tourists, each time paying millions of dollars for the privilege.
直到现在，只有极少数平民百姓能以观光客身份进入太空，每次要为这种特殊待遇花上数百万美元。
It forces candidates to spend time in small towns rather than millions of dollars advertising in big media markets.
它能迫使候选人把一些心思花在小城镇，而不是将大把大把美元送给各大媒体，为自己造势。
Those measures would likely add hundreds of billions of dollars to budget deficits at a time when the White House and lawmakers are trying to narrow them by more than one trillion.
当白宫和立法者正在尝试将它们缩小一万亿以上的时候，那些措施可能一次就增加上千亿美元的预算赤字。
Those measures would likely add hundreds of billions of dollars to budget deficits at a time when the White House and lawmakers are trying to narrow them by more than one trillion.
当白宫和立法者正在尝试将它们缩小一万亿以上的时候，那些措施可能一次就增加上千亿美元的预算赤字。
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