The US space agency's (Nasa) Associate Administrator for space Operations, Bill Gerstenmaier, said it was the closest a debris object had ever come to the station.

NASA的太空作业首席助理Bill Gerstenmaier说，这是太空残骸最接近国际空间站的一次。

I don't mind buying an expensive car, but I do mind standing at a filling station watching the digital read-out adding noughts to my credit-card bill for a tankful of something I can't even see.

我不介意买个贵车，但是我很介意就为加满一箱我甚至都看不见的玩意，就要看着加注站的数码表不停往我卡上添零。

And when a friend comes to visit, her phone roams on to your base-station, but the charges for any calls she makes appear on her bill.

如果你有朋友来到你的家中，那么她的手机也会使用你的家庭基站进行连接，但是她的呼叫费用还是依旧会显示在她的账单上的。

The fan was usually controlled by hand in the small cement grinding station; the required air of the bill was regulated by adjusting the fan opening value, which wasted a mount of electric energy.

在小型水泥粉磨站中，风机通常采用人工手动进行控制，即手动调节风机阀门开度来调节球磨机的需风量，此种控制方式造成了电能被大量的损耗。

Bill and Hillary are driving in Arkansas when they pass a gas station.

比尔和希拉里在阿肯色州驾车经过一个加油站。