billion
- num. 十亿；<旧>万亿
- n. 十亿；亿万，大量（billions）
- 【名】 （Billion）（法）比利翁（人名）
[ 复数 billions或billion ]
专业释义英英释义
billion [ 'biljən ]
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n.
- the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros; in the United Kingdom the usage followed in the United States is frequently seen
- a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole)
- the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros
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adj.
- denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States
- denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units in Great Britain
以上来源于: WordNet
柯林斯英汉双解大词典
billion /ˈbɪljən/ CET4 TEM4
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NUM A billion is a thousand million. 10亿
例：The Ethiopian foreign debt stands at 3 billion dollars.
埃塞俄比亚的外债达30亿美元。
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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. 亿万 [QUANT 'of' pl-n]
例：Biological systems have been doing this for billions of years.
生物系统亿万年来都在这样做。
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PRON You can also use billions as a pronoun. 亿万
例：He thought that it must be worth billions.
他认为它一定值亿万元。
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→ see also trillion
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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Worldwide sales reached 2.5 billion.
全球销售额达到了25亿。
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The Galaxy consists of 100 billion stars.
银河系由1千亿颗恒星组成。
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Sales jumped from $2.7 billion to $3.5 billion.
销售额从27亿元猛增到35亿元。
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The government wants forty-six creditors to accept two billion dollars instead of the seven billion dollars the company owes.
VOA: special.2009.05.01
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But despite the fact that it's modest, if everyone in the US would give according to that scale, it would yield 500 billion dollars.
尽管每个人的捐款不多，如果在美国，每个人都根据这个标准表捐款，那将会是5000亿美元。
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Or if you want negative numbers, between negative 2 billion and positive 2 billion, but it's a finite range.
或者你想储存一个负数，就必须位于负20亿到,正20亿之间，是个有限的范围。
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