billion
noun [ C ] uk/ˈbɪl.jən/ us/ˈbɪl.jən/
B2 十亿
the number 1,000,000,000
The population of China is over a/one billion. 中国的人口超过十亿。
Cosmetics is a billion-dollar industry. 化妆品行业是个价值数十亿美元的产业。
The government has invested billions of dollars in the project. 政府在这个工程上已经投资了数十亿美元。
UK old-fashioned一万亿
1,000,000,000,000
Note: This number is now called a trillion.
billions of somethinginformal （数目）非常多
a very large number
There were billions of flies everywhere. 到处都有许多的苍蝇。
- More examples
- 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.