词源

源自法語 ，源自 (“二”) +‎ 。

发音

• 英語發音：bĭl'yən、國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈbɪljən/

• （美国）音频：

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• 斷字：bil‧lion
• 韻部：-ɪljən

数词

(复数)

1. (美國，现代英国及澳大利亚，短级差制) 十亿（10⁹）

   近義詞： (现已罕用)

   • 1921 1月 24, “National Finances”, 出自 Devon and Exeter Gazette，頁號 5:

     At the last assessment it [the national debt] amounts to seven billion pounds (£7,000,000,000).

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   • 2013 5月 25, “No hiding place”, 出自 ‎, 卷 407, 期 8837，頁號 74:

     In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.

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   • 2019 October, Dan Harvey, “HS2 costs rise as schedule slips”, 出自 Modern Railways，頁號 9:

     However, despite the prospect of HS2 being curtailed and the revelation that the programme is late and billions over budget, for now, at least, work on the scheme appears to be business as usual

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   • 2023 10月 30, Herbold et al., “A large-scale comparison of human-written versus ChatGPT-generated essays” (18617), 出自 Scientific Reports, 卷 13，頁號 1:

     The ChatGPT service which serves as Web front-end to GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 was the fastest-growing service in history to break the 100 million user milestone in January and had 1 billion visits by February 2023.

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2. (過時，英国及澳大利亚，长级差制) 万亿（10¹²）

   近義詞：

   • 1778, Francis Maseres, “A Method of Finding, by the Help of Sir Isaac Newton's Binomial Theorem, a Near Value of the very Slowly Converging Infinite Series [...]”, 出自 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society‎, 卷 lxviii, 期 xli:

     n = 1,000,000,000,000, that is, = a billion, or the square of a million

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   • 2000 11月 8, Stephen Ladyman, “[Speech to the House of Commons]”, 出自 Hansard‎:

     There is a bill to be picked up for cleaning the former Soviet countries of £1 billion. By that I mean a British billion, because when I was little I was told that a billion was a million million and then the Americans said that it was a thousand million. Well, I am talking about a million million pounds worth of clean-up to be done.

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3. (口語，誇飾) 很多

   There were billions of people at the concert.

   那个音乐会得有好几亿个人去。

名词

1. 万亿（10¹²）

词源

源自 (“二”) +‎ ，即两个相乘的结果。

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发音

• 國際音標^(幫助)：/bi.ljɔ̃/

• 音频：

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数词

 m (複數)

1. 万亿 （10¹²）
2. (過時) 十亿 （10⁹）

参考资料

延伸阅读

• 查看“”在（《法语宝典》）中的释义。

名词

 m (複數)

1. 万亿 （10¹²）
   • 1520, Étienne de La Roche, L'arismethique novellement composee，頁號 6:

     ung billion vault mille milliers de millions

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