1·In 1968 the states collectively spent $2 billion on it.
1968年各州总体为此花了20亿美元。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·The value of the company is well in excess of $2 billion.
该公司的价值远超过20亿美元。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·Better stock control helped Wal-Mart to reduce its expenses by $2 billion in 1997.
库存管理的改善使沃尔玛公司在1997年减少了20亿美元的开支。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
4·They became the first company in their field to pass the $2 billion turn-over mark.
他们成为他们那个领域第一家市场营业额超过$20亿的公司。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
5·Office workers do around 2 billion hours of unpaid overtime each year.
办公室职员每年无偿加班大约20亿小时。
6·This is roughly $2 billion more than the company had invested in the previous year.
这比公司前一年的投资多了大约20亿美元。
7·That common-sense change enjoys wide public support and would save the USPS 2 billion per year.
该项变动符合生活常理，得到了公众的广泛支持，每年将为美国邮政节省20亿美元。
8·However, despite 2 billion people worldwide already supplementing their diet with insects, consumer disgust remains a large barrier in many western countries.
然而，尽管全世界有20亿人已经在用昆虫来补充他们的饮食，消费者的厌恶仍然是许多西方国家的一大障碍。
9·If the Earth-Sun distance were as little as 1 percent larger, runaway glaciation on Earth about 2 billion years ago would have caused the oceans to freeze and remain frozen to this day.
如果地球与太阳的距离再大哪怕1%，大约20亿年前地球上失控的冰期就会导致海洋冻结，并一直冻结到今天。
10·If the Earth-Sun distance were as little as 1 percent larger, runaway glaciations on Earth about 2 billion years ago would have caused the oceans to freeze and remain frozen to this day.
如果地球与太阳的距离再大1%，大约20亿年前地球上失控的冰期就会导致海洋冻结，并一直冻结到今天。