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B2thenumber1,000,000,000: 十亿 ThepopulationofChinais over a/one billion.中国的人口超过十亿。 Cosmetics is a billion-dollarindustry.化妆品行业是个价值数十亿美元的产业。 Thegovernmenthasinvestedbillionsofdollarsin theproject.政府在这个工程上已经投资了数十亿美元。 UKold-fashioned1,000,000,000,000 一万亿 Note:- This number is now called atrillion.
a billion sth/billions ofsomethinginformal a verylargenumber: （数目）非常多There were billions offlieseverywhere.到处都有许多的苍蝇。 the billions numbersoramountsofmoneybetween 1,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000: Thecostof thedamageisreckonedto beinthe billions. Thenumberofinteractionsthey will need toanalyzecouldeasilyreachintothe billions. Thegovernorsaid that thestatecould notaffordaschoolconstructionplaninthe billions ofdollars. - Japanexported$117 billion inmerchandiseto the US in 1999.
- 8 billion has beenwipedoffsharepricesworldwide.
- InChina, thepolicyof onechildperfamilywasintroducedtostabilizethe country'spopulationat 1.6 billion.
- The Clintonadministrationlastwinterassembledthe $50 billionemergencybailoutpackagetoeaseafinancialcrisisin Mexico.
- Thenationaldebtstandsat $55 billion.
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See more results » You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Large in number or quantity 十亿ThepopulationofChinais over a/one billion.中国的人口超过十亿。 Cosmetics is a billion-dollarindustry.化妆品行业是个价值数十亿美元的产业。 Thegovernmenthasinvestedbillionsofdollarsin theproject.政府在这个工程上已经投资了数十亿美元。 UKold-fashioned1,000,000,000,000 一万亿Note:- This number is now called atrillion.
billions ofsthinformal （数目）非常多There were billions offlieseverywhere.到处都有许多的苍蝇。 - Japanexported$117 billion inmerchandiseto the US in 1999.
- 8 billion has beenwipedoffsharepricesworldwide.
- InChina, thepolicyof onechildperfamilywasintroducedtostabilizethe country'spopulationat 1.6 billion.
- The Clintonadministrationlastwinterassembledthe $50 billionemergencybailoutpackagetoeaseafinancialcrisisin Mexico.
- Thenationaldebtstandsat $55 billion.
billion| American DictionaryCongresscutspendingby $255 billion. FourhurricanesbatteredFlorida,causingbillionsofdollarsindamage. billion| Business Englishone thousand million: 1,000,000,000: alossof £2 billion Thebankslostbillions in thecrash. Examplesofbillionbillion The former directly accrued billions of petrodollars from external oil rent.From theCambridge English Corpus The regression equation relating the two measures is: number of cortical neurons (in billions) 5.583 0.006 (cm3 brain volume).From theCambridge English Corpus To use a simile, history is like a collection of billions of equations (causal chains) that are all dependent upon each other.From theCambridge English Corpus We have to establish the principal mechanism of cell's behaviour in permafrost conditions, that probably might work for billions of years.From theCambridge English Corpus First, transgenic crops have a high potential for social good - literally improving the lives of billions of people.From theCambridge English Corpus They include many beneficial and deleterious species, the latter associated with billions of dollars' worth of agricultural losses annually.From theCambridge English Corpus After four decades and tens of billions of dollars, pounds, yen, and roubles, this is an odd place to be.From theCambridge English Corpus If habitable planets exist in these systems, then their orbits should stay put for billions of years.From theCambridge English Corpus They are considered primordial grains and seeds of interplanetary dust ; because of their extreme stability and inertness they remained unaltered for billions of years.From theCambridge English Corpus They are, we assume, members of a highly evolved species, consisting of many individuals (billions, at least), each with relatively small brains.From theCambridge English Corpus They claim that if successful it will not only save billions of dollars in space launches but will also prove to be more environmentally friendly.From theCambridge English Corpus The set of consequences to the end of history of any event is therefore likely to include billions or more discrete events.From theCambridge English Corpus Our knowledge of this world, with its massive evils that have affected billions of causal chains to the end of history, is minuscule.From theCambridge English Corpus The idea that you can index billions of pages and look for a word and get what you want is quite a trick.From theCambridge English Corpus No science addresses the challenge of understanding a football match on the basis of the activity of billions of physical particles.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |