| 单词 | thousand |
| 释义 | thousand (θaʊzənd ) Word forms: thousands language note: The plural form is thousand after a number, or after a word or expression referring to a number, such as 'several' or 'a few'. 1. number A2 A thousand or one thousand is the number 1,000. ...five thousand acres. Visitors can expect to pay about a thousand pounds a day. 2. quantifier B2 If you refer to thousands of things or people, you are emphasizing that there are very many of them. [emphasis] Thousands of commuters are packed into over-crowded trains every day. [+ of] I must have driven past that place thousands of times. You can also use thousands as a pronoun. Hundreds have been killed in the fighting and thousands made homeless. 3. a thousand and one phrase You can use expressions such as a hundred and one, a thousand and one, and a million and one to emphasize that you are talking about a large number of things or people. [emphasis] There are a hundred and one ways in which you can raise money. Translations: Chinese: 千 Japanese: 千 |
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