billion是什么意思？

billion

英[ˈbɪljən] 美[ˈbɪljən]

• n. 十亿，数以十亿计，大量，一万亿；
• adj. （法美）十亿的，（英德）万亿的，无数的；

复数：billions;

例句

• At a W.H.O. news conference, Marie-Paule Kieny, chief of the W.H.O.'s vaccine research initiative, estimated that the world's vaccine makers had the capacity to make a maximum of one to two billion doses of a new H1N1 vaccine within a year after 在新闻发布会上，世卫组织疫苗研究创制中心主任玛丽-保罗-克妮预测，在获得种苗后，疾病预防控制中心（C.D.C.）正在研制的新型H1N1疫苗有望在1年内达到最多20亿支的产量。（nytimes.com; May 6, 2009）
• 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。
• 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。
• 1.5 billion cubic metres of earth were/was moved. 共搬运土方15亿立方米。
• 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。
• The bank has assets of more than ￡1 billion. 该银行有十亿多英镑的资产。
• The world's largest automobile company was in default of $ 2 billion. 世界上最大的汽车厂商有20亿美元的资金缺口.
• The biggest is Pampers nappies , which collected more than $ 7 billion last year. 最大的是帮宝适(Pampers)纸尿裤, 去年收获超过70亿美元.
• They are refunding parents their money on over a billion toys. 他们退还父母他们的金钱在十亿个玩具.
• He is expected to plead guilty to allegedly masterminding a 50 - billion - dollar Ponzi scheme. 他将期待为其操控 500亿 美元庞氏诈骗认罪.

英语四级真题

could save $10 billion to $24 billion annually in health care costs
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
Rachel Botsman, the author of a book on the subject, says the consumer peer-to-peer rental market alone is worth $ 26 billion
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
billion in American high schools, helping to open about 1,000 small schools-most of them with about 400 kids each with an average enrollment of only 150 per grade, About 500 more are on the drawing board.
出自-2012年6月阅读原文

英语六级真题

Amazon plants, for instance, hold more than 100 billion metric tons of carbon, equal to 15 years of tailpipe and chimney emissions.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year - making forests the leading source of greenhouse gases
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
Each burning season in the Amazon, fires deliberately set by frontier settlers and developers hurl up almost half a billion metric tons of carbon a year, placing Brazil among the top five contributors to greenhouse gases in the world.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• NUM
  十亿
  A billion is a thousand million.
  例句
  ...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。
• QUANT-PLURAL
  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.
  例句
  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。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  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。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  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
• Adjective
  1. denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States
  2. denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units in Great Britain

行业词典

• 计算机： (美国)吉珈，十亿，１０9；(英国)万亿，１０12[B]；