Translation of "Beträge" in English

Worauf beziehen sich diese Beträge?

What are these charges for?

Was natürlich utopisch war, solche Beträge auszugeben.

Which, of course, was utopian to spend such amounts.

Wenn man zwei Vektorgrößen vergleichen will, so muss man sowohl die Beträge als auch die Richtungen vergleichen.

When comparing two vector quantities of the same type, you have to compare both the magnitude and the direction.

Da sie kein Gefühl für die fremde Währung hatten, rechneten Tom und Maria die Beträge in Tafeln Schokolade um. So kostete zum Beispiel eine Busfahrt umgerechnet 2⅓ Tafeln Schokolade. Tom fand das ziemlich teuer.

- Tom and Mary didn't have a feel for the foreign currency, so they counted the cost of things in bars of chocolate: for example, using this conversion, a bus journey cost about two-and-a-third bars of chocolate, which Tom found rather expensive.
- Tom and Mary didn't have a feel for the foreign currency, so they counted the cost of things in bars of chocolate: for example, the cost of a bus journey translated to about two-and-a-third bars of chocolate, which was rather expensive, Tom thought.