These habits have helped companies earn billions of dollars when customers eat snacks or wipe counters almost without thinking, often in response to a carefully designed set of daily cues.
这些习惯帮助公司在顾客几乎不假思索地吃零食或擦拭台面时赚取了数十亿美元，而这些行为通常是对精心设计的一系列日常提示的反应。
The companies that dr. Curtis turned to – Procter & Gamble, Colgate- Palmolive and Unilever – had invested hundreds of millions of dollars finding the subtle cues in consumers’ lives that corporations could use to introduce new routines.
Curtis 博士所求助的公司——宝洁公司、高露洁-棕榄公司和联合利华公司——已经投入了数亿资金，寻找消费者生活中细微的提示，企业可以利用这些提示来引入新的日常习惯。
Though often viewed as a problem for western states, the growing frequency of wildfires is a national concern because of its impact on federal tax dollars, says Professor Max Moritz, a specialist in fire ecology and management.
火生态学与管理专家、教授Max Moritz表示，尽管野火频发常被视为西部州的问题，但由于其对联邦税收资金的影响，这一现象正在成为全国性的关注问题。
As Moritz puts it, how often are federal dollars building homes that are likely to be lost to a wildfire?
正如莫里茨所说，联邦资金有多少次是用于建造那些很可能在野火中被毁掉的房屋？
And anything that raises GPAs will likely make students - who, at the end of the day, are paying the bill - feel they've gotten a better value for their tuition dollars, which is another big concern for colleges.
而且，任何能够提高GPA的事情，都可能让学生——毕竟最终是他们在支付费用——觉得他们为学费得到了更好的价值，这也是大学非常关注的一个问题。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。