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Thousand I Number S 英 θaʊznd] 美 θaʊznd N.<数字>千

英语单词 thousand
英美音标 英 ['θaʊznd] 美 ['θaʊznd]
中文释义 n.<数字>千
n.【C】成千上万;许许多多
英语例句 (1) Thousands of spectators watched the sailing.
(2) I am a thousand winds that blow.
中文例句 (1) 数千名观众观看了这次游艇比赛。
(2) 我是扬起千千遍遍的风.
柯林斯解释
The plural form is thousand after a number, or after a word or expression referring to a number, such as ‘several’ or ‘a few’. 用在数字以及 several,a few 等表示数量的词或短语之后时,thousand 的复数形式不变。
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[NUM 数词](数字) 1,000 A thousand or one thousand is the number 1,000.
  [usu a/num NUM]
  • ...five thousand acres...

    5,000 英亩

  • Visitors can expect to pay about a thousand pounds a day.

    游客每天大概要支付 1,000 英镑。

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[QUANT 数量词]数千;成千上万 If you refer to thousands of things or people, you are emphasizing that there are very many of them.
  [QUANT of pl-n]
  [emphasis]
  • Thousands of refugees are packed into overcrowded towns and villages...

    成千上万的难民涌入拥挤不堪的城镇和村庄。

  • I must have driven past that place thousands of times.

    我得有上千次开车经过那里。

  • You can also use thousands as a pronoun.
    • Hundreds have been killed in the fighting and thousands made homeless.

      数百人在战斗中丧生,数千人无家可归。

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a thousand and one→see:
one

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