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billion n.十亿 (1) 完成这个工程花费了他们十亿多美元。(2) 有些计算机一秒钟能完成超过十亿次运算。(3) 人类的大脑含有几十亿个神经细胞，这些细胞由纤细的神经将彼此连接起来。 While billion may sounds like a made-up number like zillion — which just means a lot — it's a very real number, specifically 1,000,000,000. That's a pretty hard number to imagine, but one way to think of it is as a thousand millions. If you have a billion dollars, you're very rich: a billionaire. Money spent by the government is often measured in billions. In England, this word often refers to a different number: 1,000,000,000,000, or one million millions.

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英 ['bɪljən] 美 ['bɪljən] (1) It took them more than one billion dollars to complete the project.(2) Some computers can perform over a billion computation a second.(3) The human brain contains several billion nerve cells, which are connected with one another by fine nerves. A billion is 1,000,000,000. There are over 7 billion people in the world, the last time we checked. The plural form is billion after a number, or after a word or expression referring to a number, such as ‘several’ or ‘a few’. 用在数字或 several，a few 等表示数字的词语之后时，其复数形式为 billion。1[NUM 数词]十亿 A billion is a thousand million. ...3 billion dollars...30亿美元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。2[QUANT-PLURAL 复数数量词]大量；无数 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.   [QUANT of pl-n]Biological systems have been doing this for billions of years...生物系统亿万年来一直都是这样。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。You can also use billions as a pronoun.He thought that it must be worth billions.他以为那一定价值连城。

英语单词	billion
英美音标	英 ['bɪljən] 美 ['bɪljən]
中文释义	n.十亿
英语例句	(1) It took them more than one billion dollars to complete the project. (2) Some computers can perform over a billion computation a second. (3) The human brain contains several billion nerve cells, which are connected with one another by fine nerves.
中文例句	(1) 完成这个工程花费了他们十亿多美元。 (2) 有些计算机一秒钟能完成超过十亿次运算。 (3) 人类的大脑含有几十亿个神经细胞，这些细胞由纤细的神经将彼此连接起来。
vocabulary简明	A billion is 1,000,000,000. There are over 7 billion people in the world, the last time we checked.
vocabulary扩展	While billion may sounds like a made-up number like zillion — which just means a lot — it's a very real number, specifically 1,000,000,000. That's a pretty hard number to imagine, but one way to think of it is as a thousand millions. If you have a billion dollars, you're very rich: a billionaire. Money spent by the government is often measured in billions. In England, this word often refers to a different number: 1,000,000,000,000, or one million millions.
柯林斯解释	The plural form is billion after a number, or after a word or expression referring to a number, such as ‘several’ or ‘a few’. 用在数字或 several，a few 等表示数字的词语之后时，其复数形式为 billion。 1 [NUM 数词]十亿 A billion is a thousand million. ...3 billion dollars... 30亿美元 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。 2 [QUANT-PLURAL 复数数量词]大量；无数 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. [QUANT of pl-n] Biological systems have been doing this for billions of years... 生物系统亿万年来一直都是这样。 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。 You can also use billions as a pronoun. He thought that it must be worth billions. 他以为那一定价值连城。

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