plural billion or billions
plural billion or billions
Learner's definition of BILLION
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: the number 1,000,000,000 : one thousand million（数字）十亿 -
a/one/two billion (of them)十亿；二十亿
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a hundred billion = 100 billion一千亿
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several billion (of them) = (less commonly) several billions (of them)几十亿
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hundreds of billions (of them)数以千亿计
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a billion and one [=1,000,000,001]十亿零一
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a billion and a half = 1.5 billion [=1,500,000,000]十五亿
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The company is worth billions. [=worth billions of dollars, pounds, euros, etc.]那家公司价值数十亿。
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: a very large amount or number大量；许多 -
We could see a billion stars in the sky.我们能看见天上无数的星星。
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I've heard that excuse a billion times before. [=many, many times before]那样的借口我听过无数次了。
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often plural常用复数 3
British, old-fashioned : the number 1,000,000,000,000 : trillion万亿 — billionth
/ˈbɪljənθ/ adjective
— billionth
noun, plural billionths [count]