a million to one

基本解釋

It was a million to one chance, but it had happened.
這只有萬(wàn)分之一的可能性，但還是發(fā)生了。
The chances of my fragile little bottle travelling so far must have been a million to one, so I dared to hope that, by some stroke of luck, it might reach its destination.
我的這個(gè)脆弱的小瓶子的經(jīng)歷大概已經(jīng)是百萬(wàn)分之一的好運(yùn)氣了，所以我希望它能保持著這份好運(yùn)氣到達(dá)自己的目的地。
In the story, the Times revealed this juicy nugget: Faceboook M&A guy Vaughan Smith says that when Facebook is deciding what to pay for a startup "engineers are worth half a million to one million.
在報(bào)道里，時(shí)報(bào)雜志透露了這個(gè)高回報(bào)的珍品：Faceboook的企業(yè)并購(gòu)負(fù)責(zé)人沃恩·史密斯說(shuō)，F(xiàn)acebook決定以50萬(wàn)到100萬(wàn)美元的價(jià)格來(lái)支付一位初創(chuàng)公司的工程師。

And,minutes after awarding the prize, Netflix announced a second one million dollar competition to improve the system even more.
But then I ask them to think, and in the book I ask the readers to think: Well, have you given a cost of an expensive pair of shoes to save the life of one of the around 9 million children who are dying from poverty related causes each year around the world?
但是，接著我讓他們思考，在書(shū)中，我讓讀者思考這樣一個(gè)問(wèn)題：,你有沒(méi)有捐出過(guò)買一雙鞋的錢,來(lái)拯救900萬(wàn)兒童中的一個(gè)生命？,他可能正因?yàn)樨毨?dǎo)致的種種問(wèn)題,而生命垂危，每年世界上都會(huì)有這樣的兒童？
普林斯頓公開(kāi)課 - 人性課程節(jié)選
And this is a very fast speed, of course, it's about 700 million miles per hour. So, one way to put that in perspective is to think about how long it takes for a light beam to get from earth to the moon. Does anyone have any guesses? Eight seconds, that sounds good.
當(dāng)然這是一個(gè)非?？斓乃俣龋蠹s是每小時(shí)7億英里,為了更形象化，我們,看看光從地球到月球,需要多少時(shí)間，你們猜猜是多少？,8秒，猜的不錯(cuò)。
麻省理工公開(kāi)課 - 化學(xué)原理課程節(jié)選

The members of the Audubon Quartet, a top string quartet, have been ordered to pay over half a million dollars to one of their former colleagues.
NPR: Audubon String Quartet Lawsuit Mixes Music, Business