million

英 [ˈmɪljən]

美 [ˈmɪljən]

num.  一百万; 大量

高考IELTSCET4考研

Collins.5 / BNC.336 / COCA.222

习惯用语

num.

look/feel like a million dollars/bucks
• 看上去 / 感觉好极了
  to look/feel extremely good
one, etc. in a million
• 万里挑一的人（或物）；不同寻常的人（或物）
  a person or thing that is very unusual or special
• He's a man in a million.
  他是个出类拔萃的人物。

牛津词典

number

• 一百万
  1 000 000
  1. a population of half a million
     五十万人口
  2. tens of millions of dollars
     数千万元
  3. It must be worth a million (= pounds, dollars, etc.)
     它一定值一百万。
• 大量
  a very large amount
  1. I still have a million things to do.
     我还有很多很多的事情要做。
  2. There were millions of people there.
     那里人山人海。
  3. He made his millions (= all his money) on currency deals.
     他的万贯家财都是通过外汇交易得到的。

柯林斯词典

The plural form is million after a number, or after a word or expression referring to a number, such as ‘several’ or ‘a few’. 在数字或several, a few等表示数字的词或短语后，复数形式为million。


• NUM 百万
  Amillionor onemillionis the number 1,000,000.
  1. Up to five million people a year visit the county...
     每年参观这个县的人多达500万。
  2. Profits for 1999 topped £100 million.
     1999年的利润超过了1亿英镑。
• QUANT-PLURAL 数百万的；大量的；数不清的;不计其数的
  If you talk aboutmillions ofpeople 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.
  1. The programme was viewed on television in millions of homes.
     无数家庭通过电视收看了这个节目。
  2. You can also usemillionsas a pronoun.
     
  3. This wretched war has brought misery to millions.
     这场悲惨的战争为无数人带来了不幸。

英英释义

noun

• the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros
  Synonym:1000000one thousand thousandmeg
• a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole)
  1. there were millions of flies
  Synonym:billiontrillionzillionjilliongazillion

adj

• (in Roman numerals, M written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or units

双语例句

• Last year he netted a cool 3 million pounds by selling his holdings
  去年他通过出售自己持有的股份获得了整整300万英镑的净收入。
• 27 million working days are lost each year due to work accidents and sickness
  每年有2,700万个工作日因为工作事故和病假而损失掉了。
• Profits for 1999 topped £ 100 million.
  1999年的利润超过了1亿英镑。
• I'm broke, Livy, and I owe a couple of million dollars
  我破产了，莉薇，而且我欠了几百万美元的债。
• Two main glacial epochs affected both areas during the last 100 million years of Precambrian times.
  在前寒武纪的最后1亿年中，两个主要的冰川时期对两个地区都产生了影响。
• Advertisers are already drooling at reports that this might bring 20 million dollars.
  广告商听闻这或许会带来2,000万美元的收益后已是垂涎欲滴了。
• Its research budget exceeds$ 700 million a year
  其研究预算每年超过7亿美元。
• It yielded a profit of at least$ 36 million.
  它带来了至少3,600万美元的收益。
• The programme was viewed on television in millions of homes.
  无数家庭通过电视收看了这个节目。
• She bought a lottery ticket and won more than$ 33 million.
  她买了张彩票，中了3,300多万美元。