Scientists have dated sharp-edged flakes of stone found in the fine-grained sediments of a dry riverbed in the Afar region of Ethiopia to between 2.52 and 2.60 million years ago.
科学家们已经确定，在埃塞俄比亚阿法尔地区干燥河床的细颗粒沉积物中发现的具有锋利边缘的石片存在于252万至260万年前。
In March Mr. Salinas shut down the city's oil refinery at a cost of $500 million and 5,000 jobs.
3月时萨利纳斯先生关闭了该市的炼油厂，损失了5亿美元和5000个工作岗位。
I was making a million a year, but that's chickenfeed in the pop business.
我一年挣一百万，但在流行乐界这简直微不足道。
He has submitted a bid to resuscitate the weekly magazine, which closed in April with losses of $1 million a year.
他已经竞标以使由于100万美元1年的损失于4月份停刊了的那个周刊起死回生。
A half million people watched the troops march in New York's ticker tape parade.
有50万人观看了部队在纸带纷飞的纽约列队前进。
As of 2005, there were almost half a million professional social scientists from all fields in the world, working both inside and outside academia.
截至2005年，来自世界各个领域的、在学术界内外工作的专业社会科学家有近50万名。
In a million words written over 20 years, he captured the full range of human emotions and conflicts with a precision that remains sharp today.
在20多年的写作生涯中，他用100万字的篇幅捕捉到了人类情感和冲突的方方面面，其文字的精确度在今天依然敏锐。
The notion of success haunts us: we spend million every year reading about the rich and famous, learning how to "make a fortune in real estate with no money down" and "dressing for success".
成功的概念一直萦绕着我们：我们每年花费百万阅读有关富人和名人的书籍，学习如何“在房地产上赚大钱而不用首付”，以及“如何打扮可以成功”。
Analysis of surveys of over one million teens in the United States collected since 1976 reveals a major shift in how teens are spending their leisure time.
自1976年以来在美国收集了关于一百多万个青少年的调研，对其进行分析后发现，青少年在休闲时间消遣的方式发生了巨大改变。
The London agents Stirling Ackroyd recently identified enough sites for half a million houses in the London area alone, with no intrusion on green belt.
最近，伦敦房地产中介公司 StirlingAckroyd 发现，仅在伦敦地区就有足够的场地供50万套房屋使用，而且不会对绿化带造成干扰。
The amount of food wasted in Europe can feed 200 million people, and the food wasted in Latin America can feed 300 million a year.
在欧洲被浪费的食物可以养活2亿人，而在拉丁美洲被浪费的食物一年可以养活3亿人。
Because of the possibility of one passenger in a million boarding an aircraft with a weapon, the other 999,999 passengers must subject themselves to searches and delays.
由于一百万人中可能有一名乘客会携带武器登上飞机，其他999,999名乘客必须接受搜查和延误。
Coffman and district officials last week agreed on a state emergency plan freeing up a $9.8 million loan that enabled the payroll to be met for 2,700 teachers and staff in time for the holidays.
Coffman和地区官员上周达成了一项州紧急计划，释放了980万美元的贷款，使2700名教师和工作人员的工资能够在假期及时发放。
In the US, the House of Representatives Science Committee has approved a bill allocating $10 million a year to studying energy-related behaviour.
在美国，众议院科学委员会已经批准了一项法案，规定每年拨款1000万美元用于研究与能源相关的行为。
For today, let's look at a reptile, a predator that hasn't evolved much in the last seventy million years.
今天，让我们来看看一种爬行动物，一种在过去七千万年里没有进化很多的食肉动物。
The well-known capital city of Zhejiang Province in the southeast part of the country has a population of 8.9 million.
中国东南部著名的省会城市浙江省的人口数为8万9千人。
The notion of space tourism took hold in 2001 with a $20 million flight aboard a Russian spacecraft by Dennis Tito, a millionaire engineer with an adventurous streak.
2001年，丹尼斯·蒂托——一位富有冒险精神的百万富翁工程师——耗资2000万美元乘坐一艘俄罗斯宇宙飞船，自此太空旅游的概念深入人心。
In more recent times the Gypsies were caught up in Nazi ethnic hysteria, and perhaps half a million perished in the Holocaust.
在近代，吉普赛人卷入了歇斯底里的纳粹民族主义，大约有50万吉普赛人死于大屠杀。
Age estimates ranging from four billion years for Mars's southern highlands to a few hundred million years in the youngest volcanic areas were obtained in this way.
通过这种方法，科学家们获得了火星南部高地40亿年到最年轻的火山地区（几亿年）的年龄估计数。
If current trends continue, then by 2050 there will be more than a million in the US alone.
如果目前的趋势继续下去，那么到2050年，仅美国就将有100多万人口。
Poland joined the European Union in 2005 and since then more than half a million people have moved to Britain, Germany, Spain and Italy.
波兰于2005年加入欧盟，自那以后，已有超过50万人移居英国、德国、西班牙和意大利。
In Club Penguin, the market leader, which was bought by Disney in 2007 for a whopping $700 million.
市场领导者企鹅俱乐部于2007年被迪斯尼以7亿美元的高价收购。
The company's self-driving cars have done well over a million miles across various states in the US, and until now have only reported minor accidents.
该公司的无人驾驶汽车在美国已经成功地穿过了许多州，行驶了超过100万英里的路程，且目前为止只发生了一些小事故。
In the latest PISA scores, the nation came second in science, third in reading and sixth in math among nearly half a million students worldwide.
在最新的国际学生评估项目中，在全世界近50万名学生里，美国在科学方面的分数排名第二，阅读方面排名第三，数学方面排名第六。
In the latest PISA scores, the nation came second in science, third in reading and sixth in math among nearly half a million students worldwide.
在最新的国际学生评估项目中，在全世界近50万名学生里，美国在科学方面的分数排名第二，阅读方面排名第三，数学方面排名第六。
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