billion
柯林斯詞典
1. NUM A billion is a thousand million. 10億
The Ethiopian foreign debt stands at 3 billion dollars. 埃塞俄比亞的外債達(dá)30億美元。
2. QUANT-PLURAL If you talk about billions of people or things, you mean that there is a very large number of them but you do not know or do not want to say exactly how many. 億萬[QUANT 'of' pl-n]
Biological systems have been doing this for billions of years. 生物系統(tǒng)億萬年來都在這樣做。
3. PRON You can also use billions as a pronoun. 億萬
He thought that it must be worth billions. 他認(rèn)爲(wèi)它一定值億萬元。
4. →see also trillion
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billion /?b?lj?n/ (billions)
劍橋詞典
- the number 1,000,000,000
- This number is now called a trillion.
- Japan exported $117 billion in merchandise to the US in 1999.
- 8 billion has been wiped off share prices worldwide .
- In China , the policy of one child per family was introduced to stabilize the country's population at 1.6 billion.
- The Clinton administration last winter assembled the $50 billion emergency bailout package to ease a financial crisis in Mexico.
- The national debt stands at $55 billion. 返回 billion
十億
The population of China is over a/one billion. 中國的人口超過十億。
Cosmetics is a billion-dollar industry . 化妝品行業(yè)是個價值數(shù)十億美元的産業(yè)。
The government has invested billions of dollars in the project . 政府在這個工程上已經(jīng)投資了數(shù)十億美元。
UK old-fashioned
1,000,000,000,000
一萬億
Note:
?billions of sth informal
a very large number
（數(shù)目）非常多
There were billions of flies everywhere . 到処都有許多的蒼蠅。
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