The plural form is billion after a number, or after a word or expression referring to a number, such as ‘several’ or ‘a few’. 用在数字或 several物业经理人贝语网校起步网校,a few 等表示数字的词语之后时钓鱼网一流范文网,其复数形式为 billion。
1. 十亿
A billion is a thousand million.
e.g. ...3 billion dollars...
30亿美元
e.g. This year, almost a billion birds will be processed in the region.
今年将会有近10亿只禽类在这个地区加工。
2. 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.
e.g. Biological systems have been doing this for billions of years...
生物系统亿万年来一直都是这样。
e.g. He urged US executives to invest billions of dollars in his country.
他力劝美国公司的高管们向他的国家投资数十亿美元。 |