billion

英[ˈbɪljən]美[ˈbɪljən]

n.十亿，大量；

复数：billions;

例句

At a W.H.O. news conference, Marie-Paule Kieny, chief of the W.H.O.'s vaccine research initiative, estimated that the world's vaccine makers had the capacity to make a maximum of one to two billion doses of a new H1N1 vaccine within a year after在新闻发布会上，世卫组织疫苗研究创制中心主任玛丽-保罗-克妮预测，在获得种苗后，疾病预防控制中心（C.D.C.）正在研制的新型H1N1疫苗有望在1年内达到*多20亿支的产量。（nytimes.com; May 6, 2009）

He also undertook to earmark $235 billion in government expenditure on infrastructure projects within five years.同时承诺在五年内投资二千三百五十亿元进行基建。

The minister appealed to the Cabinet not to target her comparatively tiny budget of ￡4 billion.那位部长呼吁内阁不要以她40 亿英镑这样相对小额的预算为批评目标。

1.5 billion cubic metres of earth were/was moved.共搬运土方15亿立方米。

Borrowing is set to soar to an astonishing ￡60 billion.借款很可能猛增至惊人的600 亿英镑。

The bank has assets of more than ￡1 billion.该银行有十亿多英镑的资产。

The world's largest automobile company was in default of $ 2 billion.世界上*大的汽车厂商有20亿美元的资金缺口.

The biggest is Pampers nappies , which collected more than $ 7 billion last year.*大的是帮宝适(Pampers)纸尿裤, 去年收获超过70亿美元.

They are refunding parents their money on over a billion toys.他们退还父母他们的金钱在十亿个玩具.

He is expected to plead guilty to allegedly masterminding a 50 - billion - dollar Ponzi scheme.他将期待为其操控 500亿 美元庞氏诈骗认罪.

英语四级真题

19 billion in 2011 to £1.

12 billion in 2015, according to a new report from market research company Mintel.

11 billion in 2016.

Yet the cost we project for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending.

We must cut carbon emissions by 80% from their 2006 levels by 2020, stabilize the world's population at eight billion by 2040, completely remove poverty, and restore forests and soils.

A recent report suggests that the global gamification market will grow from $1.65 billion in 2015 to $11.1 billion by 2020.

Last week, for example, Postmaster General Pat Donahoe announced plans to stop mail delivery on Saturdays, a move he says could save three billion dollars annually.

Rachel Botsman, the author of a book on the subject, says the consumer peer-to-peer rental market alone is worth $ 26 billion

could save $10 billion to $24 billion annually in health care costs

billion in American high schools, helping to open about 1,000 small schools-most of them with about 400 kids each with an average enrollment of only 150 per grade, About 500 more are on the drawing board.

With the world's population estimated to grow from six to nine billion by 2050, researchers.

Global warming is causing more than 300,000 deaths and about $125 billion in economic losses each year, according to a report by the Global Humanitarian Forum, an organization led by Annan, the former United Nations secretary general.

The $11 billion self-help industry is built on the idea that you should turn negative thoughts like "I never do anything right" into positive ones like "I can succeed

1 billion worldwide who live with unsafe drinking water.

About a million bottles are bought every minute, not only by thirsty tourists but also by many of the 2.1 billion worldwide who live with unsafe drinking water.

Furthermore, the future of the market looks far from rosy, with sales expected to fall further to £1.11 billion in 2016.

In 2018 alone, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, mudslides, and other natural disasters cost at least $49 billion in the United States.

It has shrunk from £1.19 billion in 2011 to £1.12 billion in 2015, according to a new report from market research company Mintel.

Lost income alone amounts to $225 billion a year.

New estimates of the water reserves now go up to 2,700 billion cubic meters of freshwater.

Over $25 billion was appropriated by Congress, and construction began on about 40,000 miles of new roads.

Textbooks represent an 11 billion dollar industry, up from $8 billion in 2014.

英语六级真题

This proposal could save Medicare more than $100 billion over the next decade.

That falls far short of the billions of dollars people once expected it to generate.

It estimated that step would save hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade.

In America the kitchen market is now worth $170 billion, five times the country's film industry.

What happens to the centralized electric grid, which took decades and billions of dollars to build, as more and more people become prosumers, who produce and consume their own energy on-site?No one knows which – if any – battery technology will ultimately dominate, but one thing remains clear: The future of energy is in how we store it.

Today, energy storage is a $33 billion global industry that generates nearly 100 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year.

Today's battery breakthroughs come as the world looks to expand modern energy access to the billion or so people without it, while also cutting back on fuels that warm the planet.

More than $100 billion in funding has been put on the table for supporting developing nations to reduce emissions.

By the end of the decade, it's expected to be worth over $50 billion and generate 160 gigawatt-hours, enough to attract the attention of major companies that might not otherwise be interested in a decidedly pedestrian technology.

And while assessments vary widely, geologists estimate that Antarctica holds at least 36 billion barrels of oil and natural gas.

This means that there could be an extra three billion mouths to feed by the end of the century, a period in which substantial changes are anticipated in the wealth, calorie intake and dietary preferences of people in developing countries across the world.

Today, we produce about four billion metric tonnes of food per year

He said "Monsanto should not be able, just because they've got billions of dollars to spend on legal fees, to try to terrify farmers into obeying their agreements by massive force and threats.

Amazon plants, for instance, hold more than 100 billion metric tons of carbon, equal to 15 years of tailpipe and chimney emissions.

billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year - making forests the leading source of greenhouse gases

Each burning season in the Amazon, fires deliberately set by frontier settlers and developers hurl up almost half a billion metric tons of carbon a year, placing Brazil among the top five contributors to greenhouse gases in the world.

In addition, almost all of the 532 billion the federal government provides for university research is awarded competitively.

Department of Energy recently proposed putting $1 billion into a new $

billion coal-burning energy plant.

Today, the European Union is creating a $580 billion fund to ward off sovereign collapse

billion in the month, are subtracted in the calculation of gross domestic product.

Bringing any new technology on the market, on average, costs $1 billion

Er, the French railways lose 1 billion ponds a year.

The German railways, 2 billion ponds a year

A billion people are living in slums, not the same billion people, but there is some overlap.

All researches agree that close to 25 billion devices, things and sensors will be connected by 2020 which incidentally is also the moment that millennials are expected to make up 75 percent of our overall workforce, and the fully connected home will becom

And lack of recovery一whether by disrupting sleep with thoughts of work or having continuous cognitive arousal by watching our phones一is costing our companies $62 billion a year in lost productivity.

Annually, the world generates 1.3 billion tons of solid waste.

By the end of the decade, it's expected to be worth over $50 billion and generate 160 gigawatt-hours, enough to attract the attention of major companies that might not otherwise be interested in a decidedly pedestrian technology.

Despite being the continent's second-largest producer of tomatoes, Nigeria is dependent on $1 billion worth of tomato-paste imports every year, as around 75% of the local harvest goes to waste thanks to a lack of proper storage facilities.

Globally, urban populations are expected to double in the next 40 years, and an extra 2 billion people will need new places to live, as well as services and ways to move around their cities.

However, despite 2 billion people worldwide already supplementing their diet with insects, consumer disgust remains a large barrier in many western countries.

In 2015, gaming produced $23.5 billion in domestic revenue.

More than $100 billion in funding has been put on the table for supporting developing nations to reduce emissions.

Nearly a billion people are illiterate.

Office workers do around 2 billion hours of unpaid overtime each year.

right now, a billion people are chronically hungry.

The market for products designed specifically for older adults could reach $30 billion by next year, and startups want in on the action.

The surface formed mostly in the last billion years, which makes it fresher and more recently active than any rocky planet other than Earth.

This sounds like so much hot air, but the near $13 billion fortune this entrepreneur has amassed comes from practical achievements rather than hypothetical ones.

Today about 1.9 billion Cokes are purchased daily.

Today, energy storage is a $33 billion global industry that generates nearly 100 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year.

Today's battery breakthroughs come as the world looks to expand modern energy access to the billion or so people without it, while also cutting back on fuels that warm the planet.

Together, the value of these metals is estimated to be about $52 billion.

with more than $12 billion in sales this year, the industry is booming and, according to the market research company, Grand view Research, is on track to sell billions more by 2025.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

NUM

十亿

A billion is a thousand million.

例句

QUANT-PLURAL

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.

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英汉词典释义

n.

十亿

数以十亿计，大量；一万亿

数以十亿计，大量；一万亿

英英词典释义

Noun

1. the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros; in the United Kingdom the usage followed in the United States is frequently seen

2. the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros

Adjective

1. denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States

2. denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units in Great Britain

行业词典

计算机： (美国)吉珈，十亿，１０9；(英国)万亿，１０12[B]；