Besides financing her own war costs she had by October, 1917, loaned eight hundred million dollars to the Dominions and five billion five hundred million to the Allies. She raised five billion in thirty days. In the first eight months of 1918 she contributed to the various forms of war loan at the average rate of one hundred and twenty-four million, eight hundred thousand a week.英文原著 · 《A Straight Deal》
Often she heard the Music of the Marsh through the night: an infinity of flutings and tinklings made by tiny amphibia,--like the low blowing of numberless little tin horns, the clanking of billions of little bells;--and, at intervals, profound tones, vibrant and heavy, as of a bass viol--the orchestra of the great frogs! And interweaving with it all, one continuous shrilling,--keen as the steel speech of a saw,--the stridulous telegraphy of crickets.英文原著 · 《Chita-A Memory of Last Island》
"Gracious me! as if I wouldn't trust you with millions of billions if I had them," cried Rose, scandalised at the mere suggestion.英文原著 · 《Eight Cousins》
He went into the chemist's for a bromide; and, while the man was mixing it, stood resting one foot like a tired horse. The "life" he had squeezed out of that fellow! After all, a billion living creatures gave up life each day, had it squeezed out of them, mostly. And perhaps not one a day deserved death so much as that loathly fellow. a breath--aflame! Nothing! Why, then, this icy clutching at his heart?英文原著 · 《Five Tales》
"Helene says you're one of these leisure American billionaires like Mr. Cooley there," she said in her tired voice.英文原著 · 《His Own People》
"Oh, none of us are really quite billionaires." He laughed deprecatingly.英文原著 · 《His Own People》
As for the cash: 500 million came onboard, three and a half billion went with Taylor, the other two billion pulled back, went elsewhere-- didn't want to be involved in a family fight.美剧 · 《Billions》
Now imagine you have a billion mirrors, And each of them reflects one thing about you correctly And a billion things about you incorrectly.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
It races through an index of billions of billions of Web pages all connected in a web of links.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
And was laughed at for it, there must be billions and billions in the universe. and was laughed at for it, there must be billions and billions in the universe.演讲 · 《10 ways the world could end ~ Stephen Petranek》