Now things seem to be changing, as Diageo dips into a war chest of several billion pounds that it has accumulated in recent years.

现在，情况看来要有变化了，因为帝亚吉欧正把其近几年来积累的数十亿英镑做筹措基金。

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We think just on canceled product programs we've probably blown a billion dollars a year, just by pushing back on things that already have been started.

过去，我们经常在启动产品计划后又将其取消，仅此一项每年就浪费10亿美元，就因为在已经开始的事情又开了倒车。

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I know you’ve heard it a billion times and it’s so cliché but there’s a reason. Writing things down allows you to easily make connections you’ve never thought of before because you see it on paper.

我知道你已经听了十亿次了, 如此老套, 但是有一个原因, 写下事情让你很容易把你以前从未想的连接起来, 因为你看它写在纸上了, 这样可以为你的大脑”腾出空间”来想其它的问题.

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So 2 billion, 4 billion -- these are big numbers, but there's a lot of "billions of things" in the world, right?

所以20亿，40亿--这都是很大的数值，但是世界上有很多“数十亿的东西“，对不？

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