名词十亿; 数以十亿计; 大量; 一万亿
形容词（法美）十亿的; （英德）万亿的; 无数的
名词
1. He claimed to have seen billions of butterflies.
他号称见过无数只蝴蝶。
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2. Billions of stars twinkled in the sky.
无数星星在天空闪烁。
Shopping on the Internet-(网上购物)
B：I really want to go to China for vacation, but I can’t find a cheap plane ticket.
我想去中国度假，可是买不到价钱便宜的机票。
A：Have you tried the Internet?
你上网试过了吗？
B：No, not yet. Can you find a good price there?
不，还没有。你可以查到价钱合适的吗?
A：Wow, you really live in the Stone Age, Mom.
哇，妈妈，你还生活在石器时代。
B：Well, you don’t have to be mean. How do I do it?
你不要这么小气。我该怎么查找？
A：Go to yahoo.com and click on “Travel” and “Tickets.” They’ll be about a billion sites to look at.
上雅虎网站，点击“旅游”和 “车票”。就有成千上万的网站供你查找的。
B：O.K. Thanks. I’ll let you know what I find.
好了，谢谢。我找到了会告诉你的。
A：All right.
好的。
B：I’ll look for a ticket for you, too. Thanks.
我也会帮你看看票的。谢谢你。
1. 十亿,万亿：interaction 互相影响,互相作用 | billion十亿,万亿100 | disadvantage 不利,不利条件,损害
2. 千兆：billion electron volts 十亿电子伏 | billion 千兆 | billisecond 毫微秒
3. 千万：to some extent 达到某种程度 | billion 千万 | increasingly 越来越多地
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。