billion
柯林斯词典
1. NUM A billion is a thousand million. 10亿
The Ethiopian foreign debt stands at 3 billion dollars. 埃塞俄比亚的外债达30亿美元。
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. 亿万[QUANT 'of' pl-n]
Biological systems have been doing this for billions of years. 生物系统亿万年来都在这样做。
3. PRON You can also use billions as a pronoun. 亿万
He thought that it must be worth billions. 他认为它一定值亿万元。
4. →see also trillion
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billion /ˈbɪljən/ (billions)
剑桥词典
- 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
十亿
The population of China is over a/one billion. 中国的人口超过十亿。
Cosmetics is a billion-dollar industry . 化妆品行业是个价值数十亿美元的产业。
The government has invested billions of dollars in the project . 政府在这个工程上已经投资了数十亿美元。
UK old-fashioned
1,000,000,000,000
一万亿
Note:
billions of sth informal
a very large number
（数目）非常多
There were billions of flies everywhere . 到处都有许多的苍蝇。
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