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单词 hundred
释义 hundred
hundred /ˈhʌn.drəd/ number (PLURAL hundred or hundreds)
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A2 the number 100:
» We've driven a/one hundred miles in the last two hours.» "How many children are there in the school?" "About three hundred."» That dress costs hundreds of pounds.Thesaurus+: ↑Cardinal numbers, including nought and zero
a hundred/hundreds of sth B2 INFORMAL
2
F0 a large number:
» There were hundreds of people at the pool today.» There are a hundred shirts waiting to be ironed.Thesaurus+: ↑Large in number or quantity
the hundreds
3
F0 numbers between 100 and 1,000:
» He expects the total amount to be in the low hundreds.Thesaurus+: ↑Cardinal numbers, including nought and zero
the eighteen hundreds, nineteen hundreds, etc.
4
F0 the years of a particular century:
» The house was built in the sixteen hundreds.Thesaurus+: ↑Specific periods of time
one hundred, two hundred, etc. hours
5
F0 used to say the time using the 24-hour system, especially used in the military:
» Breakfast is at seven hundred hours.Thesaurus+: ↑Describing when something happened or will happen
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Extra Examples:» Over two hundred people attended the funeral.» They raised four hundred pounds or so for charity.» There are one hundred pence in a pound.» Few people live beyond the age of a hundred.» Vibrations were felt hundreds of miles from the centre of the earthquake.Common mistake: hundreds or hundred?! When hundred is used after a particular number, it is used in the singular form and without 'of'.! Don't say 'five/ten/fifteen hundred of sth', say five/ten/fifteen hundred sth: There were six hundreds of people at the conference.» There were six hundred people at the conference.! When hundred is used without a particular number, it is used in the plural form and is sometimes followed by 'of':» There were hundreds (of people) at the conference.
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