cent是什么意思？

cent

英[sent] 美[sɛnt]

• n. 分，一分钱的硬币，零钱，（作单位的）百；

复数：cents;

例句

• Company can supply by 2-3 per cent of what we need. 公司能提供给我们所需的2%到3%。
• England will increase the rate from 5 to 6 per cent. 英国将提高利息从5%到6%。
• More than 70 per cent of my time has been spent in teaching. 我的时间70%以上用在了教学上。
• 95 per cent of my students have passed the examination. 我教的学生有95%通过了考试。
• Output of steel has increased by 5 per cent. 钢产量增加了百分之五。
• The area of Asia takes up 27 per cent of the world’s total. 亚洲面积占世界总面积的27%。
• 75 per cent of the amount originally borrowed is still outstanding. 最初的借款仍有75% 未偿还。
• The sum will be increased by fifteen per cent. 金额将要增加15%。
• Contractors winning construction jobs had to kick back 2 per cent of the contract price to the mafia. 赢得建筑工作的承包商得抽出合同价格的百分之二的回扣给黑手党。
• University enrolments had risen by 50 per cent. 大学入学人数增加了50%。

词组

• not care a cent
  毫不在乎
• without a red cent
  一分钱都没有了
• not worth a red cent
  毫无价值

英语四级真题

Hetty saved every penny, eating in the cheapest restaurants for 15 cents.
出自-2014年6月听力原文
They needn't pay a single cent for their power consumption on sunny days
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
For the past two months they haven't paid a cent.
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

• N-COUNT
  分(美元、欧元等的货币单位)
  A cent is a small unit of money worth one hundredth of some currencies, for example the dollar and the euro.
  例句
  A cup of rice which cost thirty cents a few weeks ago is now being sold for up to one dollar... 几个星期前卖30美分一杯的米饭，如今卖到1美元。 We haven't got a cent. 我们身无分文。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a fractional monetary unit of several countries
  2. a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit