percent
adverb
(alsoper cent)uk/pəˈsent/us/pɚˈsent/B1
for or out of every 100,shownby thesymbol%:
百分之…(符号为%)You got 20 percentoftheanswersright- thatmeansone in every five.你20%的答案是对的,也就是说每5个中有1个是对的。
Only 40percentofpeoplebotheredtovotein theelection.只有40%的人肯花时间参加了选举投票。
used forshowinghowsureyou are about something, or howlikelyortruesomething is, or how much youagreewith someone :
I'm 99.9 percentsureI'mright.
There's a 20%chanceofraintoday.
Patients whodevelopsymptomshave only a 10percentchanceofsurviving.
Iagreewith you101percent.
one hundred percent
informal(alsoa hundred percent,hundred percent)
completely; used foremphasizingwhat you are saying:
Iagreewith you one hundred percent.
We won't do anything until we're a hundred percentcertain.
It was hundred percent hisfault.
- Iassureyou it is one hundred percentgenuine.
- This is one hundred percentconfidential.
- Are you a hundred percentsureabout that?
- I dowantto go, hundred percent.
- "Is this what you reallywant?" "Hundred percent."
- Sales are up by 36percent. How about that?
- Theyoffera 10%discountonrailtravelforstudents.
- Across thecountry,examresultshaveimprovedby anaverageof eight percent.
- I'vemanagedtonegotiatea five percentpayincreasewith myboss.
Numerical relationships
- absolute maximum
- absolute minimum
- arithmetic progression
- cardinality
- decreasing
- differential
- golden ratio
- intersect
- inverse function
- inverse proportion
- linear
- linearly
- percentage
- proportion
- prorate
- prorated
- quantile
- ratio
- recursion
- trinomial
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
General words for size and amount
Complete and whole
Stressing & emphasizing
Idioms
give a hundred percent
not a hundred percent