billion 基本解释
- n. 十亿；大量
- num. 十亿
- adj. 十亿的
- n. (Billion)人名；(法)比利翁
billion 词态变化
复数: billions;
billion 中文词源
billion 十亿前缀bi-, 二。million, 百万。字面意思是万亿，现通常指十亿。
billion 英文词源
- billion (n.)
- 1680s, from French billion (originally byllion in Chuquet's unpublished "Le Triparty en la Science des Nombres," 1484; copied by De la Roche, 1520); see bi- "two" + million. A million million in Britain and Germany (numeration by groups of sixes), which was the original sense; subsequently altered in French to "a thousand million" (numeration by groups of threes) and picked up in that form in U.S., "due in part to French influence after the Revolutionary War" [David E. Smith, "History of Mathematics," 1925]. France then reverted to the original meaning in 1948. British usage is truer to the etymology, but U.S. sense is said to be increasingly common there in technical writing.
In Italian arithmetics from the last quarter of the fifteenth century the words bilione or duilione, trilione, quadrilione or quattrilione, quintilione, cinquilione, or quinquilione, sestione or sestilione, settilione, ottilione, noeilione and decilione occur as common abbreviations of due volte millioni, tre volte millione, etc. In other countries these words came into use much later, although one French writer, Nicolas Chuquet, mentions them as early as 1484, in a book not printed until 1881. The Italians had, besides, another system of numeration, proceeding by powers of a thousand. The French, who like other northern peoples, took most if not all their knowledge of modern or Arabic arithmetic from the Italians, early confounded the two systems of Italian numeration, counting in powers of a thousand, but adopting the names which properly belong to powers of a million.
For a time in Britain gillion (1961), based on giga-, was tried as "a thousand million" to avoid ambiguity.
billion 英文释义
- 1. 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
- 2. the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros
billion 双语例句
- 1. Exports in June rose 1.5% to a record $30.91 billion.
- 6月份的出口额上升了1.5%，创下309.1亿美元的历史最高纪录。
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- 2. Novello says college students will spend $4.2 billion yearly on alcoholic beverages.
- 诺韦洛说大学生每年在酒精饮品上会消费掉42亿美元。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. This has been done by plundering £4 billion from the Government reserves.
- 这是通过侵占40亿英镑的政府储备金完成的。
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- 4. The advertising agency rang up 1.4 billion dollars in yearly sales.
- 这家广告代理商每年销售额达14亿美元。
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- 5. The US trade deficit widened to $7.59 billion in November.
- 11月美国的贸易赤字扩大到75.9亿美元。
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billion 实用场景例句
- Worldwide sales reached 2.5 billion.
- 全球销售额达到了25亿。
牛津词典
- half a billion dollars
- 五亿元
牛津词典
- They have spent billions on the problem (= billions of dollars, etc.) .
- 他们花了几十亿元解决这个问题。
牛津词典
- Our immune systems are killing billions of germs right now.
- 我们的免疫系统正在杀死数以十亿计的细菌。
牛津词典
- Biological systems have been doing this for billions of years...
- 生物系统亿万年来一直都是这样。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- He urged US executives to invest billions of dollars in his country.
- 他力劝美国公司的高管们向他的国家投资数十亿美元。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- This year, almost a billion birds will be processed in the region.
- 今年将会有近10亿只禽类在这个地区加工。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...3 billion dollars...
- 30亿美元
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- She blenched before her accuser.
- 她在指控者面前畏缩了.
期刊摘选
- He also undertook to earmark $ 235 billion in government expenditure on infrastructure projects within five years.
- 同时承诺在五年内投资二千三百五十亿元进行基建.
《简明英汉词典》
- The minister appealed to the Cabinet not to target her comparatively tiny budget of ￡4 billion.
- 那位部长呼吁内阁不要以她40亿英镑这样相对小额的预算为批评目标.
《简明英汉词典》
- Borrowing is set to soar to an astonishing ￡60 billion.
- 借款很可能猛增至惊人的600亿英镑.
《简明英汉词典》
- The bank has assets of more than ￡1 billion.
- 该银行有10亿多英镑的资产.
《简明英汉词典》
- Lending by banks rose to $10 billion last year.
- 去年银行发放的贷款增至100亿元。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
- There was a capital outflow of $22 billion in 1998.
- 1998年的资本外流量为220亿元。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
- They approved a $1.1 billion package of pay increases for the veterans of the Persian Gulf War.
- 他们通过了对参加过波斯湾战争的老兵增发共计11亿美元的一揽子提案。
柯林斯例句
- Exports in June rose 1.5% to a record $30.91 billion.
- 6月份的出口额上升了1.5%，创下309.1亿美元的历史最高纪录。
柯林斯例句
- Novello says college students will spend $4.2 billion yearly on alcoholic beverages.
- 诺韦洛说大学生每年在酒精饮品上会消费掉42亿美元。
柯林斯例句
- This has been done by plundering £4 billion from the Government reserves.
- 这是通过侵占40亿英镑的政府储备金完成的。
柯林斯例句
- The Chancellor will try to claw back £3.5 billion in next year's Budget.
- 财政大臣在明年的预算中将争取收回35亿英镑。
柯林斯例句
- The advertising agency rang up 1.4 billion dollars in yearly sales.
- 这家广告代理商每年销售额达14亿美元。
柯林斯例句
- The US trade deficit widened to $7.59 billion in November.
- 11月美国的贸易赤字扩大到75.9亿美元。
柯林斯例句
- The country's trade surplus widened to 16.5 billion dollars.
- 该国的贸易顺差增加到165亿美元。
柯林斯例句
- The stars must have formed 10 to 15 billion years ago.
- 这些恒星一定是形成于100到150亿年前。
柯林斯例句
- Last year 400,000 acres of land yielded a crop worth $1.75 billion.
- 去年40万英亩的土地产值达17.5亿美元。
柯林斯例句
- The fund will make payments of just over £1 billion next year.
- 该基金明年的支付额刚好过10亿英镑。
柯林斯例句
- This law is known to hold true for galaxies at a distance of at least several billion light years.
- 据知，这条定律同样适用于距离至少几十亿光年之远的星系。
柯林斯例句
- Planned spending amounts to a whopping $31.4 billion.
- 预计的开支高达314亿美元。
柯林斯例句
- The 1985 federal budget allocated $7.3 billion for development programmes.
- 1985年的联邦预算将73亿美元拨给了开发项目。
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