单词详解

1. num.

（美国、法国）十亿；（英国、德国）万亿 (A billion is a thousand million.)

The bank has assets of more than￡1 billion. 该银行有10亿多英镑的资产。

I would guess at least a billion. 我猜至少有十亿。

All of the man’s possessions are worth over 1 billion. 那个人所有的财产价值超过十亿。

You broke my heart into a billion pieces. 你把我的心撕成了无数的碎片。

2. (pl.)

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.)

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 claimed to have seen billions of butterflies. 他号称见过无数只蝴蝶。

Billions of stars twinkled in the sky. 无数星星在天空闪烁。