billion

更新时间:2026-06-19 14:09:28   栏目: 英语词典

billion

音标: [ˈbɪljən]

词性: 名词

翻译:

十亿(在英语国家,如美国、加拿大等,1 billion = 1,000,000,000)

百万百万(在一些英语国家,尤其是欧洲,1 billion 在传统上表示百万的平方,即1,000,000,000,000)

读音:

英式发音:[ˈbɪlɪən]

美式发音:[ˈbɪljən]

用法:

数量表示: 表示十亿的数量。

引申意义: 可以用来形容一个极为庞大的数量或程度,通常作为对数量或影响的夸张表达。


例句:

The population of China is over 1.4 billion people.
(中国的总人口超过了十四亿。)

Apple’s market value reached 2.5 billion dollars last year.
(苹果的市值去年达到了25亿美元。)

The government has invested billions of dollars in infrastructure.
(政府在基础设施上投资了数十亿美元。)

He won the lottery and now he’s worth a billion dollars.
(他中了彩票,现在身价十亿美元。)

The company plans to spend a billion dollars on research and development.
(这家公司计划在研发上投入十亿美元。)

There are billions of stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
(银河系中有数十亿颗星星。)

In 2020, the world economy was severely impacted, with losses amounting to billions.
(2020年,全球经济受到严重影响,损失金额达到数十亿美元。)

The new technology has the potential to generate billions in revenue.
(这项新技术有潜力创造数十亿美元的收入。)

She has donated over a billion dollars to charity over the years.
(她多年来已捐赠超过十亿美元用于慈善事业。)

The environmental changes are costing the world billions of dollars annually.
(环境变化每年给世界带来数十亿美元的损失。)


短语搭配:

A billion dollars – 十亿美元
例如: The company earned a billion dollars last year.

Billions of people – 数十亿人
例如: Billions of people around the world are affected by the climate crisis.

Billions of dollars – 数十亿美元
例如: The government allocated billions of dollars to healthcare.

Billion-dollar industry – 十亿美元产业
例如: The tech industry has become a billion-dollar industry.

A billion times – 十亿次
例如: The machine can perform a billion calculations per second.

总结:
“Billion”作为一个表示数量的词,通常用于描述非常大的数目。它在不同的语境下有时可以表达大规模的经济、科技或其他领域的影响。在美国和加拿大,"billion"通常指十亿,而在某些其他英语使用地区,如英国,传统上指的是百万的平方。