名詞十億; 數(shù)以十億計; 大量; 一萬億
形容詞（法美）十億的; （英德）萬億的; 無數(shù)的
名詞
1. He claimed to have seen billions of butterflies.
他號稱見過無數(shù)只蝴蝶。
2.
2. Billions of stars twinkled in the sky.
無數(shù)星星在天空閃爍。
Shopping on the Internet-(網(wǎng)上購物)
B：I really want to go to China for vacation, but I can’t find a cheap plane ticket.
我想去中國度假，可是買不到價錢便宜的機票。
A：Have you tried the Internet?
你上網(wǎng)試過了嗎？
B：No, not yet. Can you find a good price there?
不，還沒有。你可以查到價錢合適的嗎?
A：Wow, you really live in the Stone Age, Mom.
哇，媽媽，你還生活在石器時代。
B：Well, you don’t have to be mean. How do I do it?
你不要這么小氣。我該怎么查找？
A：Go to yahoo.com and click on “Travel” and “Tickets.” They’ll be about a billion sites to look at.
上雅虎網(wǎng)站，點擊“旅游”和 “車票”。就有成千上萬的網(wǎng)站供你查找的。
B：O.K. Thanks. I’ll let you know what I find.
好了，謝謝。我找到了會告訴你的。
A：All right.
好的。
B：I’ll look for a ticket for you, too. Thanks.
我也會幫你看看票的。謝謝你。
1. 十億,萬億：interaction 互相影響,互相作用 | billion十億,萬億100 | disadvantage 不利,不利條件,損害
2. 千兆：billion electron volts 十億電子伏 | billion 千兆 | billisecond 毫微秒
3. 千萬：to some extent 達到某種程度 | billion 千萬 | increasingly 越來越多地
1. 十億
A billion is a thousand million.
e.g. ...3 billion dollars...
30億美元
e.g. This year, almost a billion birds will be processed in the region.
今年將會有近10億只禽類在這個地區(qū)加工。
2. 大量；無數(shù)
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.
e.g. Biological systems have been doing this for billions of years...
生物系統(tǒng)億萬年來一直都是這樣。
e.g. He urged US executives to invest billions of dollars in his country.
他力勸美國公司的高管們向他的國家投資數(shù)十億美元。