a million to one

基本解释

It was a million to one chance, but it had happened.
这只有万分之一的可能性，但还是发生了。
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.
我的这个脆弱的小瓶子的经历大概已经是百万分之一的好运气了，所以我希望它能保持着这份好运气到达自己的目的地。
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.
在报道里，时报杂志透露了这个高回报的珍品：Faceboook的企业并购负责人沃恩·史密斯说，Facebook决定以50万到100万美元的价格来支付一位初创公司的工程师。

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，接着我让他们思考，在书中，我让读者思考这样一个问题：,你有没有捐出过买一双鞋的钱,来拯救900万儿童中的一个生命？,他可能正因为贫困导致的种种问题,而生命垂危，每年世界上都会有这样的儿童？
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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.
当然这是一个非常快的速度，它大约是每小时7亿英里,为了更形象化，我们,看看光从地球到月球,需要多少时间，你们猜猜是多少？,8秒，猜的不错。
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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