英语词汇“example_english_astronomical-proportion”的音标、意思、用法及中文翻译-反思网

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If we consider all the profits of companies engaged in manufacture, distribution and so on, we see that they are reaching astronomical proportions.
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With the present high interest rates, the cost of servicing this money is now reaching astronomical proportions and many whisky firms are financially embarrassed.
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A penalty of three times the total tax chargeable can in these days reach astronomical proportions.
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But we have seen the deficit in new technology trade grow to astronomical proportions in the past eight years.
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The number of people trying to get hold of the land is reaching astronomical proportions.
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I persuade them to count the cones, and the numbers are reaching astronomical proportions at the present time.
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Land prices reached astronomical proportions during that period.
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Often they are not drug addicts themselves, but they are making money out of it; they are making millions of pounds, sums of astronomical proportions.
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In some cases this was reaching astronomical proportions.
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New roads will cost money, but the cost will rise to astronomical proportions if hand labour is used.
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He has been faced with a series of graphs and tables involving percentages dealing with figures of such astronomical proportions as to be beyond his comprehension.
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Under certain circumstances, fundamental strings produced at or near the end of inflation can be stretched to astronomical proportions.
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Several critics point out that the man in the room would probably take millions of years to respond to a simple question, and would require filing cabinets of astronomical proportions.
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