Now they're actually eager to see their electricity bills.
现在他们真的很想看到他们的电费单。
I refuse to honour your bill.
我拒绝兑现你的票据。
Ask the waiter to bring the bill.
让侍者把账单拿来。
the Education Reform bill
教育改革法案
a ten-dollar bill
一张十元的钞票
Check bill, please.
请结账。
Bill is running late for his meeting.
比尔开会要迟到了。
Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen.
比尔·盖茨与保罗·艾伦共同创立了微软公司。
I need to send a bill to Mr. Johnson for the repairs.
我需要给约翰逊先生寄一份修理费用的账单。
The bill at the restaurant came to $50, including tax.
餐厅的账单总共是50美元，包括税。
Bill Clinton served as the 42nd President of the United States.
比尔·克林顿担任美国第42任总统。
He always pays his bills on time, which is why he has a good credit score.
他总是按时支付账单，这就是他的信用评级高的原因。
Bill decided to start his own business after losing his job.
比尔在失业后决定自己创业。
They discussed the bill in detail during the committee meeting.
在委员会会议上，他们详细讨论了这项议案。
Bill's son, William Jr., is also a successful businessman.
比尔的儿子小威廉也是一位成功的商人。
She handed me the bill and asked for my signature.
她递给我账单，要求我签字。
COSCO Shipping Bulk Co Ltd, a subsidiary of State-owned China COSCO Shipping Corp, issued the first electronic bill of lading (eBL) for bulk cargo through a collaborative effort with its clients on Monday, using blockchain technology on the Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN) platform.
周一，中国远洋海运集团公司旗下的中远海运散货有限公司通过与客户的合作，在全球航运业务网络（GSBN）平台上使用区块链技术，发布了第一张散货电子提单（eBL）。
This initiative aims to empower and expedite the safe and efficient execution of cross-border trades involving bulk cargo, marking a significant milestone in the application of the IQAX eBL electronic bill of lading system in the dry bulk shipping sector, said the Guangzhou-based COSCO Shipping Bulk in a statement.
总部位于广州的中远海运集团在一份声明中表示，这一举措旨在增强和加快涉及散装货物的跨境贸易的安全高效执行，标志着IQAX eBL电子提单系统在干散货航运领域应用的一个重要里程碑。
Standard Chartered will focus on the further opening-up of China's financial sector while the country, which is at the heart of its operation, will steadily expand institutionalized opening-up with regard to rules, regulations, management and standards, said Bill Winters, group chief executive of Standard Chartered PLC.
渣打银行集团首席执行官Bill Winters表示，渣打银行将专注于中国金融业的进一步开放，而作为其运营核心的中国将稳步扩大规则、法规、管理和标准方面的制度化开放。
In a recent podcast with Financial Times, Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates decried the professed rationale behind US sanctions and said he does not think the US will ever be successful in preventing China from having cutting-edge chips.
在英国《金融时报》最近的一个播客中，微软联合创始人比尔·盖茨谴责了美国制裁背后公开的理由，并表示他认为美国永远不会成功阻止中国拥有尖端芯片。
Bill Feng has worked in the company for 16 years.
Bill Feng在这家公司工作了16年。
Bill Deng, founder and CEO of XTransfer, said that the key is to comply with the different compliance requirements of overseas countries and regions.
XTransfer创始人兼首席执行官Bill Deng表示，关键是要遵守海外国家和地区的不同合规要求。
"This pilot project represents a first-of-its-kind integration of offshore wind power being harnessed solely for offshore oil and gas facilities in China," said Bill Arnold, President of ConocoPhillips China Inc. "We believe it will become a benchmark for future low carbon emission offshore oilfield developments".
康菲石油中国股份有限公司总裁Bill Arnold表示：“该试点项目代表着海上风电首次集成，仅用于中国的海上石油和天然气设施。我们相信它将成为未来低碳排放海上油田开发的基准。”。
"Regardless of the near-term uncertainty, our commitment to supplying LNG to China on a long-term basis will remain unchanged," said Bill Bullock, executive vice-president and chief financial officer of ConocoPhillips.
康菲石油执行副总裁兼首席财务官Bill Bullock表示：“无论近期的不确定性如何，我们长期向中国供应液化天然气的承诺都将保持不变。”。
Bill Arnold, president of ConocoPhillips China, said in addition to LNG, the company hopes to deliver more oil to China in the future, while the company has also been actively evaluating opportunities in larger offshore wind farms, power from shore, and carbon capture and storage in China.
康菲中国总裁Bill Arnold表示，除了液化天然气，该公司希望未来能向中国输送更多石油，同时该公司也一直在积极评估中国在大型海上风电场、海上电力以及碳捕获和储存方面的机会。
"After being put into use for half a month, the rooftop PV power systems have saved nearly 10,000 yuan (about 1,570 U. S. dollars) from our electricity bill," said Han Shilong with the machinery company.
该机械公司的韩世龙说：“屋顶光伏发电系统投入使用半个月后，从我们的电费中节省了近1万元（约1570美元）。”。
"Behind the outstanding achievements, Chinese SMEs have been demonstrating flexible mechanisms and strong resilience in the face of a complex environment," said Bill Deng, founder and CEO of XTransfer.
XTransfer创始人兼首席执行官Bill Deng表示：“在取得卓越成就的背后，中国中小企业在面对复杂环境时表现出了灵活的机制和强大的韧性。”。
It will take the lead in formulating standards for electricity metering and billing next year, in efforts to meet the swapping demands of more private passenger cars.
明年，它将率先制定电力计量和计费标准，以满足更多私人乘用车的换电需求。
We are doing our best to maintain our presence in the country," CEO Bill Largent said.
“我们正在尽最大努力保持在该国的存在，”首席执行官Bill Largent表示。
China Re P&C and China Continent Insurance established a billing solution based on a blockchain platform; commercialized outputs to primary insurers were realized on the "Re·View" platform.
中国再保险（集团）股份有限公司和中国大地保险公司建立了一个基于区块链平台的账单解决方案，实现了在"Re·View"平台上对初级保险公司的商业化输出。
About 25 of them are able to provide sea-rail bill of lading services.
大约有25家能够提供海铁联运提单服务。
In November, Musk raced ahead of Bill Gates to become the second-richest person.
11月，马斯克超越比尔·盖茨，成为全球第二富有的人。
Musk has gained more wealth over the past 12 months than Bill Gates' entire net worth of $132 billion, the story added.
在过去12个月里，马斯克的财富增长超过了比尔·盖茨1320亿美元的全部净资产。
The blacklisting came on the heels of the US House of Representatives passing a bill on Wednesday that could block Chinese companies from US securities markets.
此举紧随美国众议院周三通过一项法案之后，该法案可能阻止中国公司进入美国证券市场。
The bill contains clauses that are "clearly discriminative" against Chinese companies, the China Securities Regulatory Commission said in a statement on Friday.
中国证监会周五在一份声明中表示，该法案包含针对中国公司的“明显歧视性”条款。
Last week, the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs approved a bill to ban the app on government-issued devices.
Dada was the first Chinese company to complete the initial public offering process on a US bourse after a new bill querying the ownership status of listed foreign companies was passed in the US Senate recently.
The bill requires US-listed companies to certify that they are not owned or controlled by a foreign government and open their books to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board－the organization that oversees audits of US-based public companies.
Companies that are unable to meet the requirements for three consecutive years would automatically be barred from US stock exchanges, according to the bill.
Two senators have introduced a bill to ban federal employees from using TikTok on government-issued phones.
Liu remains JD's actual controller," said Shen Meng, director of boutique investment bank Chanson& Co. Shen said Liu is in need of new successors to push forward JD's businesses, in consideration of his personal situation, just as at Microsoft, where Bill Gates appointed Steve Ballmer as his successor.
Business magnate and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is ranked third, while his long-time friend and legendary investment guru Warren Buffett is in fourth.
Public services offered smoothlyChina's three major telecom operators - China Telecom, China Unicom and China Mobile - all ensured services will not be shut down because of phone bill arrears, guaranteed normal communication for frontline medical staff and gave full support to governments in sending messages to the public about the epidemic.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced Sunday that it would commit $10 million to help first responders in China and Africa, including $5 million for international cooperation, treatment and vaccine development.
So far, Babylon has partnered with 170 global partners, including the NHS, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Samsung, Telus and Prudential.
"Over years, the St. Regis Beijing has hosted many foreign political heavyweights, including former presidents of the United States Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, and the current President Donald Trump.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates avoided this trap.
If the trade war continues for a long time, US consumers will ultimately be the ones footing the bill, O'Hollaren stressed.
"China's 2019 GDP growth target at 6-6.5 percent is reasonable and achievable, and we've seen a robust start for the Chinese economy this year such as stabilizing corporate capital expenditures," Bill Winters, group chief executive of SCB, told Xinhua on the sidelines of the just-concluded China Development Forum 2019.
Bill Gates, who previously held the top spot for a record time, saw his wealth rise to $96.5 billion from $90 billion last year, putting him in second place.
He has set a record by building his wealth above $10 billion within the shortest time, even faster than Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates.
Bill Gates was second with a net worth of $96 billion and the legendary investment guru Warren Buffett took third place as his wealth shrunk 14 percent to $88 billion this year.
The permit, issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, will allow the company to contract directly with Chinese clients and bill them in yuan, and enter into competition with domestic telecoms firms – State-owned China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom.
""Being able to service and bill locally significantly simplifies the process of delivering connectivity and other communication services; this is what our customers expect from us," said Burger in the release.
Bill Yu, vice president of Huawei Tech Investment Saudi Arabia, said the opening of Huawei's first flagship store in the kingdom demonstrates its commitment to the Saudi market.
For example, a client of China Telecom found his bill this month incredibly high, and called customer service to make a complaint.
The odor control technologies, developed by Firmenich in a four-year partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with $13 million funding, will reach low-income consumers in South Africa and Bangladesh before the end of this year.
The new toilet economy is estimated to reach up to $200 billion globally, with $62 billion in India alone by 2021, according to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
A study by Firmenich in India, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, suggested that close to 50 percent of respondents choose open defecation over toilets due to their bad smells.
We are honored to be the first international bank to be granted this license," said Bill Winters, group chief executive of Standard Chartered.
China is highly likely to emerge as the largest market for German software company SAP SE, as local enterprises embrace cutting-edge technologies such as cloud computing to accelerate their digital transformation, its Chief Executive Officer Bill McDermott said.
"Bezos has yet to join "The Giving Pledge" created by fellow billionaires Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett, whose more than 180 signatories have promised to give more than half of their fortunes to philanthropy.
Earlier this month, U. S. Senator Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, proposed a bill in Congress called the "Stop BEZOS" Act, which would make large corporations pay workers more or pay for public assistance programs like Medicaid.
Ma also said there were a lot of things he could learn from Bill Gates, but there is one thing he could do better than Gates, who retired at the age of 58.
"I can never be as rich as Bill Gates but one thing I can do better than him.
The segment's net billing skyrocketed to 235.7 million yuan by the end of 2017 from just 3.8 million a year ago, while the number of third-party institutions and independent teachers jumped more than tenfold and twentyfold respectively.
Trident Seafoods has already sent a team with Alaska Governor Bill Walker's trade mission to China, which began on May 26, to explore more business opportunities.
"The response came after the House of Representatives last week passed a bill along with an amendment that bans the US government agencies and institutions from buying surveillance cameras from Hikvision, Hytera Communications Corp and Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co. Hytera and Dahua also expressed regret over the vote and said they would safeguard their reputation and legal interest.
The Amazon move came amid a heated debate in Seattle about a head tax on large companies, after the city council passed a tax bill early this month to fund affordable housing and homelessness services.
The city council voted unanimously on May 14 for the bill, under which an annual tax of $275 will, starting next year, be slapped on each employee of for-profit companies that gross at least $20 million per year in the city.
However, the Amazon spokeswoman denied the relocation decision was related to the head tax bill, which it has strongly opposed, only saying the move was a business decision.
The Algerian government has been making an effort in recent years to boost the automotive industry to diversify its oil-dependent economy and reduce exorbitant car imports bill which hit $7.5 billion in 2014.
International Finance Corporation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have been shareholders in bKash since 2013 and 2014 respectively.
Bill Poirier, vice president of Westinghouse's China projects, said Sanmen unit one is well prepared for fuel loading and the company is waiting for the final approval from the Chinese government.
House of Fraser announced it would cut the number of its high street shops by a third in an effort to reduce its rent bill following the slump in holiday sales.
""We are honored to be a part of Xiamen Airlines' long-term growth plans with our GE and CFM engines," said Bill Fitzgerald, vice-president and general manager of Commercial Engines at GE Aviation.
Japan passed a bill in June that removed the uncertainty over whether renting out a property for short periods was legal.
For example, in cooperation with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the company developed a kind of portable passive cold storage device called Arktek, enhancing its cold chain technology to a higher level as well as international reputation.
When Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation looked for a worldwide partner to invent a refrigeration device that could be used in countries with limited cold chain and ice pack production capacity, Aucma was among the candidates but not the most hopeful one.
Mark Suzman, president of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's global policy, advocacy and country programs, said that Aucma is "a Chinese enterprise showing great potential for tackling development challenges in sub-Saharan Africa".
Globalgood, a research institute invested by Bill Gates, has sent several scientists to work with Aucma.
Washington-based Terra Power, co-founded by Bill Gates in 2006, has been working closely with China National Nuclear Corp to conduct research into the use of the new technology.
Bellevue, Washington-based Terra Power, co-founded by Bill Gates in 2006, is working closely with China National Nuclear Corp to conduct research into the use of the new technology.
成立于2006年，总部位于华盛顿州贝尔维尤的Terra Power公司，由比尔·盖茨共同创立，正与中国核工业集团公司紧密合作，共同开展关于这项新技术应用的研究。
A customer pays her bill using facial recognition technology at KFC's concept restaurant KPRO in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province,xa0Sept 1, 2017.
Mobile phone bill payments and insurance products soon will be available via the AlipayHK app.
For one, the company is no longer building customized software to run things like human resources and bill payment, relying instead on cheaper ready-made systems.
"Bayer has been active in China for more than 140 years, and we have participated in this expo ever since it started in 2018," said Bill Anderson, CEO of Bayer AG.
This year's first CIIE edition of the China-Europe freight train has greatly enhanced transportation efficiency though the application of electronic bill of lading, the Xinhua report added.
Citing a recent approval by the US Senate of an amendment to the yearly defense bill on Thursday, which aims to prohibit the export of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve to China, Zhang Xiaoqiang, executive vice-chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges in Beijing, said such a move has further exacerbated the challenges in current China-US economic and trade relations.
The details are shown on an app on her mobile phone, which not only facilitates electricity bill payments but also displays information about her household's daily carbon emission reduction, cumulative carbon reduction, and her ranking among all users.
In a video speech to the forum in Beijing, which runs through Tuesday, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said China has an incredible mix of expertise and experience, as well as long-standing investment in scientific and technological innovation.
China's remarkable expertise and extensive experience, combined with its longstanding commitment to technological innovation, position it to make unique contributions to the world by sharing its technological achievements and experience, said Bill Gates, co-chair and trustee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, at the forum.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said in a speech via video link at the forum that greater global cooperation is needed to address the challenges facing humankind.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates called for greater cooperation among humanity to address global challenges, while highlighting that China will be able to make unique contributions by sharing its technologies and its lessons.
"According to Gates, who is also the co-chair and trustee of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, China is already playing an important role in addressing a string of challenges.
The bill announced about $370 billion in climate and clean energy investments, including a number of subsidies and tax incentives for players operating in the US.
The above-mentioned draft US bill has gone so far as to designate a country as developed.
Microsoft's founder Bill Gates dropped out of the top five for the first time since the inception of the Hurun Global Rich List.
As the US' discriminatory and distorted industrial subsidy provisions in its Inflation Reduction Act have disrupted global supply chains and violated the rules of the World Trade Organization, the Chinese side made a professional analysis of the alleged violations of WTO rules by the relevant provisions of the US bill, Shu said.
The bill will intensify geopolitical competition in the semiconductor sector worldwide, affect the optimal configuration, security and stability of the industrial and supply chains of the global chip industry, and hinder global economic recovery, said Sun Xiao, spokesman for the Beijing-based agency.
The Chinese business community strongly opposes this bill.
The CCPIT and the China Chamber of International Commerce called for the Chinese and US business communities to work together to eliminate the adverse impact of this bill and take effective measures to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests.
But to further break the numbers down, it can be seen that the increase was mainly supported by rising bill financing and short-term loans.
In a traffic accident, if the damage is caused by the defects of a vehicle, the driver, the owner or the user of the vehicle, after paying for the bill, can request compensation from the manufacturer or seller of the car in accordance with laws, the regulation said.
Bill Liu, vice-president of sales and general manager of China Business at Western Digital, a US-based data storage solution provider, is upbeat about China's future growth prospects, saying the company is optimistic about the great potential of the digital consumption market under the dual-circulation strategy.
According to a report by China News Service, the US government on Nov 15 announced an infrastructure bill totaling about $1 trillion, and will pour $550 billion into transportation infrastructure, updating and improving water supply systems, grids and broadband networks.
According to the meeting's requirement, the PBOC will also conduct rediscounting to support financial institutions' bill financing, to ease SMEs' short-term financing constraints.
"I didn't win a digital RMB red envelope in February, and I felt sad for missing a chance to experience (the new payment system)," Tao said while footing the bill using the lucky money.
In response to the US Senate's move to pass a technology investment bill to counter so-called challenges from China on Tuesday, Gao said all countries have the responsibility to develop their own industries and enhance the well-being of their people.
Losses huge as Bill Hwang's 'family office' defaults on margin callsLike the stocks he's invested in, Bill Hwang's Wall Street career has had its ups and downs.
Bill Gates and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg ranked fourth and fifth, accumulating total wealth of $124 billion and $97 billion, respectively.
Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos, last year's richest man, ranked second with $189 billion, followed by "Luxury King" LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault ($114 billion) and Bill Gates ($110 billion).
亚马逊创始人杰夫·贝佐斯，去年的世界首富，今年以1890亿美元的财富位居第二，紧随其后的是“奢侈品之王”LVMH集团首席执行官贝尔纳·阿尔诺（1140亿美元）和比尔·盖茨（1100亿美元）。
The STA also plans to establish a national unified electric bill service platform and enlarge the scale of pilot programs this year.
At present, 22 provinces in China have joined the national network of the e-bill management system, through which people from different areas can check whether the bill is true or false.
"The US House of Representatives on Dec 2 passed a bipartisan bill that would delist Chinese companies from US stock exchanges if they did not comply with American financial auditing rules.
The bill will weaken global investor confidence in the US capital market, damage the international status of the US capital market and harm its own interests, Hua said.