billion 详细解释
billion
['biljən]
n.十亿
n.
1. (美国、法国)十亿
2. (英国、德国)万亿
3. 大量, 无数[P][(+of)]
He claimed to have seen billions of butterflies.
他号称见过无数只蝴蝶。
Billions of stars twinkled in the sky.
无数星星在天空闪烁。
词形变化
名词复数：billions, billion
英英释义
名词 billion:
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
同义词：one million million, 1000000000000
a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole)
同义词：million, trillion, zillion, jillion
the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros
同义词：one thousand million, 1000000000
形容词 billion:
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
补充
billionbillion英:[ˈbiljən] 美:[ˈbɪljən]n.1.十亿The bank has assets of more than ￡1 billion.该银行有10亿多英镑的资产。1.5 billion cubic metres of earth were/was moved.共搬运土方15亿立方米。例句
1. By the age of 35 he had made his first billion.在35岁的时候, 他就挣到人生第一个十亿美元。 2. The Ethiopian foreign debt stands at 3 billion dollars.埃塞俄比亚的外债高达30亿美元。 3. More than a billion has been found for other causes.有十亿多资金被用于了其他事业。 4. a world population of nearly 5 billion.将近50亿的世界人口。 5. half a billion dollars.五亿美元。 6. our immune systems are killing billions of germs right now.我们的免疫系统此刻正在杀灭亿万个细菌。 7. the problem persists despite the billions spent on it.尽管花了数十亿英镑，问题依然存在。 8. billions of dollars数十亿元 9. a/one/two billion (of them)十亿；二十亿 10. a hundred billion = 100 billion一千亿 11. several billion (of them) = (less commonly) several billions (of them)几十亿 12. hundreds of billions (of them)数以千亿计 13. "a billion and one [=1,000,000,001]"十亿零一 14. "a billion and a half = 1.5 billion [=1,500,000,000]"十五亿 15. "The company is worth billions. [=worth billions of dollars, pounds, euros, etc.]"那家公司价值数十亿。 16. We could see a billion stars in the sky.我们能看见天上无数的星星。 17. "I've heard that excuse a billion times before. [=many, many times before]"那样的借口我听过无数次了。 18. We could see billions of stars.我们能看见无数的星星。 19. billions and billions of stars数不清的星星 20. our (one) billionth customer我们的第十亿位顾客 21. This is the billionth time I've seen this show. [=I've seen this show many times]这个节目我看过无数次了。 22. one billionth [=one of a billion equal parts] of a second十亿分之一秒