单词 | a million |
释义 | > as lemmasa (emphatically one) million a. In singular. Usually a (emphatically one) million; in phrases expressing rate, the million.thanks a million: see thank n. Phrases 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [noun] > million a milliona1393 millionc1400 muskmelon1662 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 2613 (MED) Sche..that richest is And hath of gold a Milion. c1395 G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale 1685 ‘Yis,’ quod this aungel, ‘many a milioun.’ c1440 (a1400) Awntyrs Arthure (Thornton) 236 (MED) With a melyone [v.r. myllione] of messes. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxx. 243 Ye shal vnderstonde that a myllyon is /M/M/. 1576 A. Fleming tr. C. Hegendorphinus in Panoplie Epist. 391 What is he among a myllian that is not surprised with sorrowe, when [etc.]. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. i. 92 Oh, 'giue ye-good-ev'n: heer's a million of manners. 1629 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime i. 5 Through a Million of dangers we arriued the Spanish coasts. 1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 334 'Tis a million to one but they wish it had never been done. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. v. 26 A million of Yahoos might have been killed. 1778 F. Burney Evelina III. xi. 123 He had a million of things to say to me. 1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family II. 6 We charged him with a million of thanks. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 524 The sun is a million of times larger than the earth. 1885 Manch. Examiner 24 July 5/1 He could count his soldiers by the million. 1926 V. Lindsay Geol. in Going-to-stars 84 A million of years. 1934 J. B. Priestley Eng. Journey ix. 316 This [ship-]yard..had been a spectacular failure in which over a million of money had been lost. 1989 San Diego Oct. 176/2 Leningrad lost one million of its population from starvation alone. < as lemmas |
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