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几十元

English translation: tens of Yuan


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Chinese term or phrase:几十元
English translation:tens of Yuan
Entered by: alvinliu
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01:23 Jun 20, 2008
Chinese to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Accounting
Chinese term or phrase: 几十元
几十元人民币
Weiping Tang
China
Local time: 19:17
several tens of Yuan
Explanation:
FYI

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Note added at 12 mins (2008-06-20 01:36:10 GMT)
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google一下,几十美元的说法有:tens of dollars
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free?curre...

Forty years ago, Caltech professor Carver Mead identified the corollary to Moore's law of ever-increasing computing power. Every 18 months, Mead observed, the price of a transistor would halve. And so it did, going from 〔〔tens of dollars〕〕 in the 1960s to approximately 0.000001 cent today for each of the transistors in Intel's latest quad-core.
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alvinliu
Local time: 19:17
Grading comment
thanks!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +3a few dozens RMB/dozens of RMB
Mark Chen
3 +3several tens of Yuan
alvinliu
4scores of Yuanfly away


  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
a few dozens RMB/dozens of RMB


Explanation:
FYI

Mark Chen
Local time: 19:17
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Prof Projex: “a few dozen RMB" (perhaps no S), as close as it gets
1 hr

agree  Jack Qin
11 hrs

agree  lbone
1 day48 mins
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
several tens of Yuan


Explanation:
FYI

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Note added at 12 mins (2008-06-20 01:36:10 GMT)
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google一下,几十美元的说法有:tens of dollars
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free?curre...

Forty years ago, Caltech professor Carver Mead identified the corollary to Moore's law of ever-increasing computing power. Every 18 months, Mead observed, the price of a transistor would halve. And so it did, going from 〔〔tens of dollars〕〕 in the 1960s to approximately 0.000001 cent today for each of the transistors in Intel's latest quad-core.

alvinliu
Local time: 19:17
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
thanks!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Gertrude Tsau
48 mins
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agree  Prof Projex
1 hr
  -> thanks

agree  karcsy
16 hrs
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12 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
scores of Yuan


Explanation:

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fly away
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Local time: 19:17
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Changes made by editors
Jun 21, 2008 - Changes made by alvinliu:
Edited KOG entryWeiping Tang's old entry - "几十元" => "tens of Yuan"


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