noughts

英 [nɔːts]

美

n.  (数码)零; (用于某些短语)无，零
nought的复数

柯林斯词典

The spelling naught is also used for meaning 2. 拼写 naught 用于义项2。


• NUM (数字)0
  Noughtis the number 0.
  1. Sales rose by nought point four per cent last month...
     上个月销售额上升了0.4％。
  2. Houses are graded from nought to ten for energy efficiency...
     房屋按照能耗标准划分为0至10级。
  3. When you write down in figures the number one million, how many noughts are there?
     一百万写成数字时，一共有几个0？

in AM, use 美国英语用 zero


• PHRASE 毫无结果;一事无成
  If you try to do something but your efforts are not successful, you can say that your effortscome to nought.
  1. Numerous attempts to persuade him to write his memoirs came to nought.
     无数次劝他写回忆录的尝试均以失败告终。

In spoken British English,noughtis much more common thanzero....from nought to60 in a fraction of one second.As a number,zerois used mainly in scientific contexts, or when you want to be precise. However, when you are stating a telephone number, you sayo(/əʊ/). In some sports contexts, especially in football scores,nilis used.England beat Poland two-nil at Wembley.In tennis,loveis the usual word....a two-games-to-love lead.
英国英语口语中，nought 比 zero 常见得多：from nought to 60 in a fraction of one second (瞬间从0到60)。作为数字，zero主要用于科学语境和表示精确意义的时候。但是说到电话号码时，用o (/əʊ/)。涉及体育运动，尤其是足球比赛比分时，用 nil：England beat Poland two-nil at Wembley (英格兰队在温布利以2比0战胜波兰队)。网球比赛中，常用 love 表示零分：a two-games-to-love lead (局分2比0领先)。

双语例句

• If the euro goes the way of the Argentine currency peg, the noughts and tens the first decades of the 21st century will be viewed as teaching the same lesson about more radical currency marriages.
  如果欧元重蹈阿根廷那种汇率盯住汇率的覆辙，21世纪的头几十年，就会同样被视为有关更为激进的货币联姻的教训。
• Using binary notation is in fact just manipulating ones and noughts.
  使用二进制标号法实际上只运用1和0两个数。
• On a long flight, his doodles with noughts and crosses convinced him that the extreme racial segregation often seen in modern cities could arise without extreme racial prejudice.
  在一次长途飞行中，他在信手圈圈点点之后发现，即使没有极端的种族歧视，现代城市中常见的极端种族隔离现象也可能出现。
• When you write down in figures the number one million, how many noughts are there?
  一百万写成数字时，一共有几个0？
• Here's a scenario from the game," Noughts and Crosses", automated with JBehave, and the UI which matches it
  下面是这个游戏的一个场景，以及对应的UI，使用JBehave来自动化
• Six noughts will be removed from the face value of the lira;
  里拉的面值里将减少六个零；
• Admiring it and adding noughts in vain.
  赞赏着它，徒劳地做着零与零的加法。
• When multiplying numbers ending in nought, bring down the noughts first.
  去乘尾数是零的数字时，先将零移下。