And they knew little about the predators that attack and eat baby oysters by the millions.

I often write about van Gogh, because I'm an American art journalist based in Amsterdam, where tourists flock by the millions to the largest trove of his paintings anywhere in the world, the Van Gogh Museum, at the center of Amsterdam's sprawling Museumplein ( museum square).

我经常写梵高的故事，因为我是驻阿姆斯特丹的美国艺术记者，而每年会有大量游客来到全世界最大的梵高作品收藏地——梵高博物馆，它就位于阿姆斯特丹庞大的博物馆广场的中央。

The combination pulls in Japanese tourists by the millions.

这种组合吸引了大量的日本旅行者。但西方游客相对较少。

Any price, when multiplied by the millions, is too high for the bottom billion to pay.

任何价格，一旦乘以数百万，对处于社会最底层的十亿人来说将会高得难以支付。

All we know is that monarchs migrate by the millions and they come back every Spring.

只是知道它们数以万计的迁徙，每年的春天归来。

The result will be welcomed by the millions of Egyptians who want life to return to normal as soon as possible.

这个结果受到了成千上万希望尽快回到正常生活的埃及人民的欢迎。

The idea that within twenty years equally powerful computers smaller than postage stamps would be mass produced by the millions was pure science fiction.

二十年里小于邮票但同样强大的计算机将数百万计地大规模生产，这样的想法纯粹是科学幻想。

During the 2007-2009 downturn, companies not only shed jobs by the millions but also put the screws to workers who remained, forcing them to work harder, give ground on raises and benefits and, worst of all, stop mocking the boss' tie.

在2007-2009年的下行期间，美国企业不仅裁员数百万，而且还通过对留下来的员工施压，迫使他们更卖力地工作，在加薪和福利方面做出让步，最糟糕的是，不能再嘲弄老板的领带。

On the one hand, they were real tigers; They ate people, ate people by the millions and tens of millions.

一面，真老虎，吃人，成百万人成千万人地吃。

Because if the South Korean manufacturing giant knows how to make a wrist-watch computer that people will buy by the millions, it should be selling it, not talking about it.

原因是，如果这家韩国制造业巨头知道怎么造出销量能达数百万的智能手表，那它应该赶紧开卖，而不是夸夸其谈。

It's a bond born of shared history and values, and strengthened by the millions of Americans who proudly trace their roots to Latin America.

这种情谊源于共同的历史和价值观，并因那些自豪的到拉美寻根的数以百万的美洲人而加强。

This weekend, Ukrainians voted by the millions

本周末乌克兰有数百万人参与投票

As big as building a detector And routine analysis used in most of the different detectors, the Large Hadron Collider detector constituted by the millions of components, weighing several tons.

象办公楼一样大的检测器与日常分析中所使用的大多数检测器不同，大型强子对撞机的检测器由数百万个部件构成，重量达数千吨。

We always assumed people flocked by the millions to central Florida for the indigenous rock formation exhibit at the Orange County Regional History Center. But maybe these Disney folks play a small role.

我们一直以为数以百万计的人去佛罗里达州是为了欣赏奥兰治历史中心的岩石层展览，而去迪士尼的游玩的人可能仅仅只占了小部分。

This credit and consumer boom is, of course, partly driven by the millions of new jobs and higher wages that have come from the economic upswing.

当然，这种信贷与消费繁荣一定程度上是受到经济上升所带来的数百万份新工作岗位及工资上涨的驱动。

Ship is a huge system, assembled by the millions of components, and ship construction process is a more complicated systematic project.

船舶是一个庞大的系统，是由数以百万计的零件装配而成，而船舶建造过程更是一项复杂的系统工程。

This encourages tourists who flock here by the millions and who knows, some may even decide to stay.

这就鼓励游客成千上百万地涌向这里，谁知道，有的人甚至会决定留下来。

Stockbrokers, auto dealers, mail carriers, insurance and real estate agents: the internet will eradicate middlemen by the millions.

股票经纪人、汽车经销商、邮递员、保险和房地产代理人：因特网将使数百万的中间人消失。

Just as the US labour market is conditioned by the millions who have dropped out of it, so house prices are anchored by the 11m or so Americans whose homes remain underwater ( ie houses that are worth less than their mortgages).

正如数百万失业者决定了美国就业市场的形势一样，1100万左右美国人的住房沉入水下（即房屋价值低于抵押贷款余额）的情况也制约着美国房价。

American pencil makers turn out their product by the millions.

美国的铅笔制造商生产了数以百万计的铅笔。

Near seven o'clock we finally surveyed the bank of shellfish, where pearl oysters reproduce by the millions. These valuable mollusks stick to rocks, where they're strongly attached by a mass of brown filaments that forbids their moving about.

七点左右，我们终于到了小纹贝礁石岩脉上，岩脉上繁殖着不可数计的亿万珍珠贝、这些宝贵的软体动物粘附着岩石，它们被那些棕色的纤维结实地缚在石上，摆脱不开。