billion
英 ['b?lj?n]
美['b?lj?n]
- n. 十億；大量
- num. 十億
- adj. 十億的
- n. (Billion)人名；(法)比利翁
考試真題
- 19 billion in 2011 to ￡1.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- 12 billion in 2015, according to a new report from market research company Mintel.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- 11 billion in 2016.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Yet the cost we project for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- We must cut carbon emissions by 80% from their 2006 levels by 2020, stabilize the world's population at eight billion by 2040, completely remove poverty, and restore forests and soils.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- A recent report suggests that the global gamification market will grow from $1.65 billion in 2015 to $11.1 billion by 2020.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Last week, for example, Postmaster General Pat Donahoe announced plans to stop mail delivery on Saturdays, a move he says could save three billion dollars annually.
出自-2016年12月聽力原文
- Rachel Botsman, the author of a book on the subject, says the consumer peer-to-peer rental market alone is worth $ 26 billion
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- could save $10 billion to $24 billion annually in health care costs
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- billion in American high schools, helping to open about 1,000 small schools-most of them with about 400 kids each with an average enrollment of only 150 per grade, About 500 more are on the drawing board.
出自-2012年6月閱讀原文
- With the world's population estimated to grow from six to nine billion by 2050, researchers.
出自-2011年12月閱讀原文
- Global warming is causing more than 300,000 deaths and about $125 billion in economic losses each year, according to a report by the Global Humanitarian Forum, an organization led by Annan, the former United Nations secretary general.
出自-2011年6月閱讀原文
- The $11 billion self-help industry is built on the idea that you should turn negative thoughts like "I never do anything right" into positive ones like "I can succeed
出自-2010年6月閱讀原文
- 1 billion worldwide who live with unsafe drinking water.
2019年12月四級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section A
- About a million bottles are bought every minute, not only by thirsty tourists but also by many of the 2.1 billion worldwide who live with unsafe drinking water.
2019年12月四級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section A
- Furthermore, the future of the market looks far from rosy, with sales expected to fall further to ￡1.11 billion in 2016.
2017年6月四級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- In 2018 alone, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, mudslides, and other natural disasters cost at least $49 billion in the United States.
2019年12月四級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- It has shrunk from ￡1.19 billion in 2011 to ￡1.12 billion in 2015, according to a new report from market research company Mintel.
2017年6月四級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- Lost income alone amounts to $225 billion a year.
2018年12月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section A
- New estimates of the water reserves now go up to 2,700 billion cubic meters of freshwater.
2018年12月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section C
- Over $25 billion was appropriated by Congress, and construction began on about 40,000 miles of new roads.
2018年6月四級真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- Textbooks represent an 11 billion dollar industry, up from $8 billion in 2014.
2019年12月四級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- This proposal could save Medicare more than $100 billion over the next decade.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- That falls far short of the billions of dollars people once expected it to generate.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- It estimated that step would save hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- In America the kitchen market is now worth $170 billion, five times the country's film industry.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- What happens to the centralized electric grid, which took decades and billions of dollars to build, as more and more people become prosumers, who produce and consume their own energy on-site?No one knows which – if any – battery technology will ultimately dominate, but one thing remains clear: The future of energy is in how we store it.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Today, energy storage is a $33 billion global industry that generates nearly 100 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Today's battery breakthroughs come as the world looks to expand modern energy access to the billion or so people without it, while also cutting back on fuels that warm the planet.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- More than $100 billion in funding has been put on the table for supporting developing nations to reduce emissions.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- By the end of the decade, it's expected to be worth over $50 billion and generate 160 gigawatt-hours, enough to attract the attention of major companies that might not otherwise be interested in a decidedly pedestrian technology.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- And while assessments vary widely, geologists estimate that Antarctica holds at least 36 billion barrels of oil and natural gas.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- This means that there could be an extra three billion mouths to feed by the end of the century, a period in which substantial changes are anticipated in the wealth, calorie intake and dietary preferences of people in developing countries across the world.
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- Today, we produce about four billion metric tonnes of food per year
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- He said "Monsanto should not be able, just because they've got billions of dollars to spend on legal fees, to try to terrify farmers into obeying their agreements by massive force and threats.
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- Amazon plants, for instance, hold more than 100 billion metric tons of carbon, equal to 15 years of tailpipe and chimney emissions.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year - making forests the leading source of greenhouse gases
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- Each burning season in the Amazon, fires deliberately set by frontier settlers and developers hurl up almost half a billion metric tons of carbon a year, placing Brazil among the top five contributors to greenhouse gases in the world.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- In addition, almost all of the 532 billion the federal government provides for university research is awarded competitively.
出自-2012年6月閱讀原文
- Department of Energy recently proposed putting $1 billion into a new $
出自-2012年6月閱讀原文
- billion coal-burning energy plant.
出自-2012年6月閱讀原文
- Today, the European Union is creating a $580 billion fund to ward off sovereign collapse
出自-2012年6月閱讀原文
- billion in the month, are subtracted in the calculation of gross domestic product.
出自-2011年12月閱讀原文
- Bringing any new technology on the market, on average, costs $1 billion
出自-2012年6月聽力原文
- Er, the French railways lose 1 billion ponds a year.
出自-2010年12月聽力原文
- The German railways, 2 billion ponds a year
出自-2010年12月聽力原文
- A billion people are living in slums, not the same billion people, but there is some overlap.
2017年6月六級真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- All researches agree that close to 25 billion devices, things and sensors will be connected by 2020 which incidentally is also the moment that millennials are expected to make up 75 percent of our overall workforce, and the fully connected home will becom
2017年12月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- And lack of recovery一whether by disrupting sleep with thoughts of work or having continuous cognitive arousal by watching our phones一is costing our companies $62 billion a year in lost productivity.
2018年12月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- Annually, the world generates 1.3 billion tons of solid waste.
2019年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- By the end of the decade, it's expected to be worth over $50 billion and generate 160 gigawatt-hours, enough to attract the attention of major companies that might not otherwise be interested in a decidedly pedestrian technology.
2016年12月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section C
- Despite being the continent's second-largest producer of tomatoes, Nigeria is dependent on $1 billion worth of tomato-paste imports every year, as around 75% of the local harvest goes to waste thanks to a lack of proper storage facilities.
2017年12月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section A
- Globally, urban populations are expected to double in the next 40 years, and an extra 2 billion people will need new places to live, as well as services and ways to move around their cities.
2019年12月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section A
- However, despite 2 billion people worldwide already supplementing their diet with insects, consumer disgust remains a large barrier in many western countries.
2019年12月六級真題（第二套）聽力 Section B
- In 2015, gaming produced $23.5 billion in domestic revenue.
2019年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- More than $100 billion in funding has been put on the table for supporting developing nations to reduce emissions.
2016年12月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- Nearly a billion people are illiterate.
2017年6月六級真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- Office workers do around 2 billion hours of unpaid overtime each year.
2019年12月六級真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- right now, a billion people are chronically hungry.
2017年6月六級真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- The market for products designed specifically for older adults could reach $30 billion by next year, and startups want in on the action.
2019年6月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section C
- The surface formed mostly in the last billion years, which makes it fresher and more recently active than any rocky planet other than Earth.
2019年6月六級真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- This sounds like so much hot air, but the near $13 billion fortune this entrepreneur has amassed comes from practical achievements rather than hypothetical ones.
2018年6月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section A
- Today about 1.9 billion Cokes are purchased daily.
2017年12月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section C
- Today, energy storage is a $33 billion global industry that generates nearly 100 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year.
2016年12月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section C
- Today's battery breakthroughs come as the world looks to expand modern energy access to the billion or so people without it, while also cutting back on fuels that warm the planet.
2016年12月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section C
- Together, the value of these metals is estimated to be about $52 billion.
2019年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- with more than $12 billion in sales this year, the industry is booming and, according to the market research company, Grand view Research, is on track to sell billions more by 2025.
2019年12月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- A study found that a strong nifio in 1997-98 helped America's economy grow by 15 billion, partly because of better agricultural harvest, farmers in the midwest gained from extra rain.
2016年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- Americans use more than 100 billion thin film plastic bags every year.
2018年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- If you want to disturb the car industry, you'd better have a few billion dollars: mom-and-pop carmakers are unlikely to beat the biggest car companies.
2018年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- The global population is expected to grow to 9.6 billion by 2050.
2018年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- The most recent powerful nino, in 1997-98, killed around 21, 000 people and caused damage worth $36 billion around the globe.
2016年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- For example, wholesale food and drink sales came to $268 billion in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom in 2000—more than 40 percent of retail sales.
出自-2010年考研閱讀原文
- Not only did they develop such a device but by the turn of the millennium they had also managed to embed it in a worldwide system accessed by billions of people every day.
出自-2012年考研閱讀原文
- Americans, she finds, buy roughly 20 billion garments a year – about 64 items per person – and no matter how much they give away, this excess leads to waste.
出自-2013年考研閱讀原文
- The largest firms in America and Britain together spend more than $15 billion a year on CSR, according to an estimate by EPG, a consulting firm.
出自-2016年考研閱讀原文
- 3 billion for the UK in invisible exports and our other education related explores earn up to &10 billion a year more.
出自-2017年考研翻譯原文
- That common-sense change enjoys wide public support and would save the USPS $2 billion per year.
出自-2018年考研閱讀原文
- Meanwhile, it has more than $120 billion in unfunded liabilities, mostly for employee health and retirement costs.
出自-2018年考研閱讀原文
- Legislation is moving through the House that would save USPS an estimated $286 billion over five years, which could help pay for new vehicles, among other survival measures.
出自-2018年考研閱讀原文
- It reported a net loss of $5.6 billion for fiscal 2016, the 10th straight year its expenses have exceeded revenue.
出自-2018年考研閱讀原文
- "Our products succeed when they become part of daily or weekly patterns," said Carol Berning, a consumer psychologist who recently retired from Procter and Gamble, the company that sold $76 billion of tide, Crest and other products last year.
2010年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- Americans, she finds, buy roughly 20 billion garments a year-about 64 items per person一and no matter how much they give away, this excess leads to waste.
2013年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- At its peak in 2007, it was worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics, a research firm—double the figure five years earlier.
2010年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- For example, wholesale food and drink sales came to $268 billion in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom in 2000— more than 40 percent of retail sales.
2010年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- In 2015, the US Forest Service for the first time spent more than half of its $5.5 billion annual budget fighting fires——nearly double the percentage it spent on such efforts 20 years ago.
2017年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- Legislation is moving through the House that would save USPS an estimated $28.6 billion over five years, which could help pay for new vehicles, among other survival measures.
2018年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- since then it may have come down to $50 billion.
2010年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- That common- sense change enjoys wide public support and would save the USPS $2 billion per year.
2018年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- The power and ambition of the giants of the digital economy is astonishing - Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.5 billion, but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp me
2018年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ