/ˈbɪljən ||; ˈbɪljən/number 1000000000 十亿:
billions of dollars数十亿元Notice that when you are counting you use billion without ‘s ’ three billion yenbillion 用于数数目时不加 s:三十亿日圆 ☞Formerly, ‘billion’ was used with the meaning ‘one million million’. We now say trillion for this. For more information about numbers look at the special section on numbers at the back of this dictionary. billion 以往指万亿。现在万亿用 trillion。有关数词的详细用法,参看本词典末数词用法部份。
billion/ˋbIljən; ˈbIljən/number plural billion or billions 1 the number 1,000,000,000 十亿: two/three/four etc billion 3.5 billion years ago 35 亿年前billions of pounds/dollars etc 几十亿英镑/美元等2 an extremely large number of things or people 数以十亿计﹐大量: a billion A billion stars shone in the sky. 夜空中繁星闪烁。billions of sth There are billions of things I want to say. 我有千言万语要说。—billionth adj —billionth n [C]
billionbillionbillionsnumber1 000 000 000; one thousand million: five billion pounds The company is worth billions of dollars.grammarWe say five billion dollars (without ‘s’), but billions of dollars.