billions是什么意思？

billions

英['bɪljənz] 美['bɪljənz]

• n. 十亿（billion的复数形式）；

例句

• Microseconds later the universe inflated to become billions of miles wide. 一百万分之一秒之后,宇宙就膨胀到几十亿英里宽.
• The money they spent on armaments runs into tens of billions. 他们在军备上花的钱多达几百亿.
• Billions of pounds are riding on the outcome of the election. 几十亿英镑都取决于这次选举的结果。
• Biological systems have been doing this for billions of years. 生物系统亿万年来一直都是这样。
• Israel accepted billions of dollars in war reparations. 以色列得到了几十亿美元的战争赔款。
• She faces charges of helping to plunder her country's treasury of billions of dollars... 她面临协助侵吞数十亿美元国家财产的指控。
• Billions of pounds are riding on the outcome of the election... 几十亿英镑都取决于这次选举的结果。
• In the end they lose millions, perhaps billions... 最后他们输掉几百万，或许是几十亿。
• But congressional staffers fret that the project will eventually cost billions more... 但是国会工作人员担心这项计划最终会多耗资数十亿元。
• The government is spending billions of dollars on new urban rail projects. 政府正把数十亿元花在新城市铁路项目上。

英语六级真题

He said "Monsanto should not be able, just because they've got billions of dollars to spend on legal fees, to try to terrify farmers into obeying their agreements by massive force and threats.
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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。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole)