"Seventy dollars!" he cried, as if he were really too shocked to speak at all; "seven-ty dollars! Make it eighty! Oh, it is a sin and a shame, gentlemen, and the fair fame of this beautiful city is eternally ruined. It will become a wagging of the head and a byword among the nations. Sev-en-ty dollars!"--then hotly and indignantly--"seventy dollars!--fifth and last time, seventy dollars!"--here he raised his hammer threateningly--"seventy dollars!"英文原著 · 《Boyhood in Norway》
Our financial condition on that day (February 22, 1855) was: Due depositors and demand certificates, five hundred and twenty thousand dollars; to meet which, we had in the vault: coin, three hundred and eighty thousand dollars; bullion, seventy-five thousand dollars; and bills receivable, about six hundred thousand dollars. Of these, at least one hundred thousand dollars were on demand, with stock collaterals. Therefore, for the extent of our business, we were stronger than the Bank of England, or any bank in New York City.英文原著 · 《Memoirs of General William T. Sherman-1》
The Bibles cost him just eighty cents apiece. He went about the South and offered the Bibles to the astonished and open-mouthed negroes for eight dollars each, two dollars and a half down and the rest in monthly payments. His sales were enormous. Then he went his rounds all over again and offered to close out the remaining five dollars and a half due him by a final payment of two dollars and a half each. In nearly every case the bait was swallowed, and on each Bible he thus cleared four dollars and twenty cents net!英文原著 · 《The Americanization of Edward Bok》
But now it became difficult to get wheat at all. All of a sudden nobody was selling. The buyers in the Pit commenced to bid against each other, offering a dollar and two cents. The wheat did not "come out." They bid a dollar two and a half, a dollar two and five-eighths; still no wheat. Frantic, they shook their fingers in the very faces of Landry Court and the Gretry traders, shouting: "A dollar, two and seven-eighths! A dollar, three! Three and an eighth! A quarter!英文原著 · 《The Pit》
Thus full of hope and enthusiasm he settled in Paterson, New Jersey, and there found a lucrative job at six dollars per week in one of the weaving mills of the town. Six whole dollars per week was, no doubt, a fortune for Italy, but not enough to breathe on in the new country. He loved his little home. He was a good husband and devoted father to his BAMBINA, Bianca, whom he adored. He worked and worked for a number of years. He actually managed to save one hundred dollars out of his six dollars per week.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
"I wonder if there is much in it."
Opening the book he saw that there were three entries, as follows:
1883. Five hundred dollars. " June 10. Two hundred dollars. " Oct. One hundred dollars. There was besides this interest credited to the amount of seventy-five dollars. The deposits, therefore, made a grand total of $875.英文原著 · 《Driven From Home》
We took a 48 million dollar hit today, instead of eating the 512 million dollar exposure we were facing at the open.美剧 · 《Billions》
- Two thousand dollars? - Two thousand dollars?美剧 · 《Friends》
It provides 400 million dollars in payroll annually, and nearly half a billion dollars in contracts.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
We're spending 8 billion dollars a month; 18 minutes is 100 million dollars -- we're spending 8 billion dollars a month; 18 minutes is 100 million dollars --演讲 · 《A powerful idea about ideas ~ Alan Kay》
The tags cost 3500 dollars each, and then satellite time is another 500 dollars, The tags cost 3500 dollars each, and then satellite time is another 500 dollars,演讲 · 《Swim with the giant sunfish ~ Tierney Thys》