billion

柯林斯詞典

1. NUM A billion is a thousand million. 10億
The Ethiopian foreign debt stands at 3 billion dollars. 埃塞俄比亞的外債達(dá)30億美元。
2. QUANT-PLURAL 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. 億萬[QUANT 'of' pl-n]
Biological systems have been doing this for billions of years. 生物系統(tǒng)億萬年來都在這樣做。
3. PRON You can also use billions as a pronoun. 億萬
He thought that it must be worth billions. 他認(rèn)爲(wèi)它一定值億萬元。
4. →see also trillion

Japan exported $117 billion in merchandise to the US in 1999.
8 billion has been wiped off share prices worldwide .
In China , the policy of one child per family was introduced to stabilize the country's population at 1.6 billion.
The Clinton administration last winter assembled the $50 billion emergency bailout package to ease a financial crisis in Mexico.
The national debt stands at $55 billion.