十亿

There must have been a time billions of years ago when life crossed the threshold of irreversibility.

数十亿年前，生命肯定有过一次跨越不可逆性门槛的行动。

Mike Gold, director of Bigelow Aerospace's office in Washington, DC, has nothing good to say about the country's export policy:"if the purpose of ITAR is to lose billions of dollars of business, ship jobs overseas, and the Iranians and the Chinese get the same technology anyway, then mission accomplished." The regime, he says, is obsolete and counterproductive.

位于华盛顿特区的Bigelow 宇宙办公室的总裁Mike Gold，他说道美国的出口政策时没什么好话，他说，"假如ITAR的目的是丢掉几十亿美元的生意、将成百万件工作送到国外，以及让伊朗人和中国用某种方式获得相同技术，那么它成功了，它的目的达到了。"

However, Jeffreys said the increasing number of records being held on the UK police database -- currently about 2.5 million -- meant that having only 10 markers per person was no longer foolproof.

目前英国警署提取犯罪人基因特征数据一般是10种长链脱氧核糖核酸蛋白分子。据说，在每二个无关人员中，具有这10种数据的相同比率大约为十亿分之一。

Over the past four years, despite billions of dollars in revenues, the GOSS has failed to build a single paved road outside Juba, the capital.

在过去四年，尽管有数十亿的资金，南方政府没能在其首都外铺一条道路。

Karaoke has turned into a multibillion-dollar industry since being invented in 1971 by Daisuke Inoue, a Japanese club keyboardist looking to provide music for a customer who wanted to sing on a company trip.

卡拉OK自1971年诞生以来已经成为一项规模数十亿美元的产业，它是由一个叫Daisuke Inoue的日本俱乐部键盘手发明的，当时一位顾客想要在伴奏下唱歌。

But the Treasury's takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac this past weekend has almost certainly put the kibosh on that.

雷曼兄弟即使发生破产清盘这种最坏的情况，其导致的损失也不过数十亿美元。

With more than ten thousand million bytes of disk storage, it ceases to be important to us just how many hundreds are left, yet the display rigorously shows us down to the kilobyte.

对于一个具有几十亿字节存储量的硬盘，几百个字节的信息已经完全没有意义。尽管程序严格的显示到了千字节位，但是对我们重要的信息是剩余空间的多少。

I always have. But I'm not about to kiss off a billion dollars.

我喜欢Sabrina，我一直都是，可是我不能因为她让十亿美元泡汤。

We later learned that there were no WMD's and that Bin Ladin was far from Iraq and that basically we spent and are still spending billions of our own tax dollars to basically assassinate Sadam Hussein and control oil so that Bush and all of his friends could get rich.

后来我们知道，根本就没有什么毁灭性武器，况且本·拉登离伊拉克很远，所以基本上已经花费的和仍在花费的我们缴纳的数十亿税款都拿去支持刺杀萨达姆·侯赛因和控制石油，为布什和他的朋友们暴富在服务。

Monitor Memories are made of this 记忆是这样炼成的 Sep 3rd 2009 From The Economist print edition Computing: Memory chips based on nanotubes and iron particles might be capable of storing data for a billion years 计算机:毫微管和铁粒子造存储芯片,数据保存能达十亿年 FEW human records survive for long, the 16,000-year-old Paleolithic cave paintings at Lascaux, France, being one exception.

人工记录很少能长期保存。

Do you know, i need you to come back

你知道吗，我需要你回来

Yang yinshu、Wang xiangsheng、Li decang,The first discovery of haemaphysalis conicinna.

1〕 杨银书，王祥生，李德昌。安徽省首次发现嗜群血蜱。