Definition of million in English:

million

cardinal number ˈmɪljənˈmɪljən

a/one million

1The number equivalent to the product of a thousand and a thousand; 1,000,000 or 10⁶
一百万；一百万个
a million people will benefit
100万人将受益。
a population of half a million
50万人口。
a cost of more than £20 million
2，000多万英镑的成本。
Example sentencesExamples
- In Yorkshire alone, nearly half a million homes are at risk of low demand and abandonment.
- Last year more than half a million homes were left empty for at least a month at a time.
- When up to half a million people took to the streets, there was no looting.
- More than half a million people need to go to the doctor, and a third of these end up in hospital.
- Organisers countered by claiming that at least half a million people joined the demo.
- Despite the lucrative land sales, the village had only three million yuan in its accounts.
- The United Nations currently estimates that half a million people have so far been displaced.
- As a result, the album was a relative flop, failing to sell even one million copies.
- Nearly half a million people could benefit from a new scheme aimed at reducing hospital waiting lists.
- About half a million Dominicans live in New York, making it one of its largest immigrant groups.
- Experts say this could rise to six million barrels a day within five years with the right investment and control.
- Prehistory spans an almost inconceivably long time, perhaps as much as half a million years.
- Between them they will buy more than a million tickets for thousands of shows.
- Electoral officials in Ohio say they have recorded half a million new voters since March.
- In this way, it is estimated that some half a million people will be pushed off benefits.
- The total figures might have reached ten million by the end of the past century.
- One radar sweep covers 6 million cubic miles.
- At its peak the British auxiliary forces consisted of nearly half a million members.
- Last year the centre attracted a million visitors, half of whom visited the library.
- Nearly half a million metric tonnes of cereal food aid is needed over the next six months.
1. 1.1millions The numbers from a million to a billion.
  （表示100万到10亿之间的数目）上百万，数百万
  Example sentencesExamples
  Before European settlers arrived, gray wolves once roamed all over North America, their population in the millions.
  It also includes money, in the millions and billions.
  The report wrongly gave earnings and revenue numbers in billions rather than millions.
  From a pre-contact population in the millions, by 1900 they were reduced to a culturally destroyed remnant of 250,000.
2. 1.2millions Several million things or people.
  数百万之物；数百万之众
  millions of TV viewers
  几百万的电视观众。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Despite the abundance, there are still millions of people who go without water, or have to battle to get drips for consumption.
  Where is the evidence of fossils being millions of years old?
  We had many cases that involved multiple defendants and millions of dollars of counterfeit money.
  A lack of aid and an abundance of problems threaten millions in Southern Africa.
  Now multiply that by millions of students and other computer users and the problem comes into sharp focus.
  Liquid water is the basic requirement for life, and Earth's abundant supply supports millions of organisms.
  She realized her own experience must be multiplied by millions and wrote a guide to coping with depression on the job.
  Multiply that by millions of digital photographers and you are talking about a lot of digital information.
  Voice is the one application that every business uses, with millions of telephone calls being made every day.
  In most countries, ensuring all children improved access to basic services would require millions - not billions - of dollars.
  All the energy built up by the twisting of the plasma is suddenly released, as if millions of atomic bombs exploded in just a few seconds.
  New banking providers also have to recognise, he said, that there are still millions of customers who have never used a telephone to talk to their bank.
  Some in Mexico view the exodus of millions of people as an embarrassment while others as an escape valve for social unrest.
  Although the discrepancy may not look large, it is likely to represent very significant sums of money when multiplied by millions of customers.
  Their violation costs employers multiple millions of dollars and widespread condemnation.
  It has cost that state multiple millions of dollars.
  What parent - Morgan among them - would want their child's every misstep or embarrassment exaggerated and witnessed by millions?
  Its advantages are formidable: abundant cheap labor, millions of talented engineers, good infrastructure.
  He should give some thought to the millions of viewers disenfranchised by the sell-out.
  To provide that level of service we would be talking about spending literally millions of pounds.
  Synonyms
  a lot of money, a fortune, a considerable sum of money, a vast sum of money, millions, billions, a king's ransom, a killing, a windfall, a bonanza
3. 1.3informal An unspecified but very large number or amount of something.
  〈非正式〉许多，无数
  I've got millions of beer bottles in my cellar
  我的地窖里有无数的啤酒瓶。
  you're one in a million
  你是无与伦比的。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Suddenly it's nearly Christmas and I still have a million and one things to do.
  You will see how my anxiety level went from zero to a million over the span of an hour.
  I have no idea where she is or what she's doing, and my mind is running at a million miles an hour.
  I drove a sports car about a week ago and the brakes are about a million times better than that.
  Influenza, whose genes evolve a million times faster than ours, is a master of adaptability.
  He points out that they often find their finished product a million miles away from the original concept.
  I have a million and one things to do in the house and my motivation is still on extended vacation.
  Synonyms
  a large amount, a fair amount, a good deal, a great deal, a deal, a great quantity, quantities, an abundance, a wealth, a profusion, plenty, masses
4. 1.4 A million pounds or dollars.
  百万英镑（或美元）
  the author is set to make millions
  这个作者将会赚到几百万元。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Didn't they invest a few million into the company a few years ago?
  They stand to lose millions in revenue following the discovery of one infected cow in Alberta in May this year.
  I ran into a group of people who will pay big money - millions - to the person who solves their one problem.
  There is no way any of us are going to get her an elite card, not even if we won a million on the lottery.
5. 1.5the millions The bulk of the population.
  大众，群众
  movies for the millions
  为大众制作的电影。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The sense that historical fiction had sunk to the condition of adventure stories for boys, and romance for the millions, cast a blight on the genre in the 20th cent.
  Every cent you give will go a very long way towards creating a world that is truly for the millions, not the millionaires.

Phrases

gone a million

informal (of a person) completely defeated or finished.
〈澳，非正式〉（人）完蛋；垮掉

look (or feel)(like) a million dollars

informal Look or feel extremely good.
〈非正式〉（人）看上去非常好的；感觉非常好的
Example sentencesExamples
- I felt I looked a million dollars - for the first and last time.
- However, it was great to have her present and looking a million dollars.
- This involves sometimes dressing up to the nines, doing grand things and looking like a million dollars.
- The house will look like a million dollars when it's all done.
- And the glorious alpine summer weather will make you feel like a million dollars.
- But I made you feel like a million dollars, didn't I?
- I feel like a million dollars as we cruise towards Manhattan.
- Why bother, when Milan will always end up leaving you looking like a million dollars?
- He made you feel like a million dollars when you were with him.
- This was all built on a Mac, naturally, and it looks like a million dollars in Safari.

Derivatives

millionfold

adverb & adjective ˈmɪljənfəʊldˈmɪljənˌfoʊld

It may drive us mad if we begin to think of public evils as millionfold evils.
Example sentencesExamples
- Japanese investigators have discovered that plastics can concentrate hydrophobic chemicals a millionfold.
- By the turn of the eighteenth century, that estimate stood at 20,000,000,000 Earth radii - a millionfold increase.
- The end result is that when the intensity is increased a millionfold we perceive the loudness to have increased by a factor of twelve.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, probably from Italian milione, from mille 'thousand' + the augmentative suffix -one.

In Latin mille means ‘a thousand’—as in mile and millennium (mid 17th century). In million, the thousand got multiplied by itself. This seems to have happened in Italian, where the word millione (now milione) was formed. In 1956 Frank Sinatra and Celeste Holm enjoyed great success with the duet ‘Who wants to be a millionaire?’ from Cole Porter's High Society. The answer in the song is ‘I don't’, but the television company ITV found that they were in a small minority when they introduced the quiz show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? in September 1998. Thousands have applied to be contestants and millions have been won; the show has given several catchphrases to the language, including ‘phone a friend’ and ‘ is that your final answer?’ The top prize in the British show is a million pounds, but the first millionaires had a thousand French francs. The poet Lord Byron wrote in a letter in 1816: ‘He is still worth at least 50-000 pds—being what is called here a “Millionaire” that is in Francs and such Lilliputian coinage, introducing the word to English.’

Rhymes

billion, jillion, bajillion, modillion, multibillion, multimillion, pillion, septillion, sextillion, squillion, trillion, zillion

Definition of million in US English:

million

cardinal numberˈmɪljənˈmilyən

a/one million

1The number equivalent to the product of a thousand and a thousand; 1,000,000 or 10⁶
一百万；一百万个
a million people will benefit
100万人将受益。
a population of half a million
50万人口。
a cost of more than $20 million
2，000多万英镑的成本。
Example sentencesExamples
- Nearly half a million people could benefit from a new scheme aimed at reducing hospital waiting lists.
- Electoral officials in Ohio say they have recorded half a million new voters since March.
- Last year the centre attracted a million visitors, half of whom visited the library.
- Prehistory spans an almost inconceivably long time, perhaps as much as half a million years.
- The total figures might have reached ten million by the end of the past century.
- Last year more than half a million homes were left empty for at least a month at a time.
- About half a million Dominicans live in New York, making it one of its largest immigrant groups.
- Nearly half a million metric tonnes of cereal food aid is needed over the next six months.
- More than half a million people need to go to the doctor, and a third of these end up in hospital.
- Organisers countered by claiming that at least half a million people joined the demo.
- Experts say this could rise to six million barrels a day within five years with the right investment and control.
- As a result, the album was a relative flop, failing to sell even one million copies.
- One radar sweep covers 6 million cubic miles.
- At its peak the British auxiliary forces consisted of nearly half a million members.
- The United Nations currently estimates that half a million people have so far been displaced.
- Between them they will buy more than a million tickets for thousands of shows.
- Despite the lucrative land sales, the village had only three million yuan in its accounts.
- In this way, it is estimated that some half a million people will be pushed off benefits.
- When up to half a million people took to the streets, there was no looting.
- In Yorkshire alone, nearly half a million homes are at risk of low demand and abandonment.
1. 1.1millions The numbers from a million to a billion.
  （表示100万到10亿之间的数目）上百万，数百万
  Example sentencesExamples
  Before European settlers arrived, gray wolves once roamed all over North America, their population in the millions.
  The report wrongly gave earnings and revenue numbers in billions rather than millions.
  From a pre-contact population in the millions, by 1900 they were reduced to a culturally destroyed remnant of 250,000.
  It also includes money, in the millions and billions.
2. 1.2millions Several million things or people.
  数百万之物；数百万之众
  millions of TV viewers
  几百万的电视观众。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Voice is the one application that every business uses, with millions of telephone calls being made every day.
  Some in Mexico view the exodus of millions of people as an embarrassment while others as an escape valve for social unrest.
  He should give some thought to the millions of viewers disenfranchised by the sell-out.
  All the energy built up by the twisting of the plasma is suddenly released, as if millions of atomic bombs exploded in just a few seconds.
  In most countries, ensuring all children improved access to basic services would require millions - not billions - of dollars.
  Liquid water is the basic requirement for life, and Earth's abundant supply supports millions of organisms.
  A lack of aid and an abundance of problems threaten millions in Southern Africa.
  Its advantages are formidable: abundant cheap labor, millions of talented engineers, good infrastructure.
  What parent - Morgan among them - would want their child's every misstep or embarrassment exaggerated and witnessed by millions?
  Despite the abundance, there are still millions of people who go without water, or have to battle to get drips for consumption.
  To provide that level of service we would be talking about spending literally millions of pounds.
  Their violation costs employers multiple millions of dollars and widespread condemnation.
  Where is the evidence of fossils being millions of years old?
  Although the discrepancy may not look large, it is likely to represent very significant sums of money when multiplied by millions of customers.
  Now multiply that by millions of students and other computer users and the problem comes into sharp focus.
  We had many cases that involved multiple defendants and millions of dollars of counterfeit money.
  New banking providers also have to recognise, he said, that there are still millions of customers who have never used a telephone to talk to their bank.
  Multiply that by millions of digital photographers and you are talking about a lot of digital information.
  She realized her own experience must be multiplied by millions and wrote a guide to coping with depression on the job.
  It has cost that state multiple millions of dollars.
  Synonyms
  a lot of money, a fortune, a considerable sum of money, a vast sum of money, millions, billions, a king's ransom, a killing, a windfall, a bonanza
3. 1.3informal An unspecified but very large number or amount of something.
  〈非正式〉许多，无数
  I've got millions of beer bottles in my cellar
  我的地窖里有无数的啤酒瓶。
  you're one in a million
  你是无与伦比的。
  Example sentencesExamples
  You will see how my anxiety level went from zero to a million over the span of an hour.
  I drove a sports car about a week ago and the brakes are about a million times better than that.
  I have no idea where she is or what she's doing, and my mind is running at a million miles an hour.
  He points out that they often find their finished product a million miles away from the original concept.
  Influenza, whose genes evolve a million times faster than ours, is a master of adaptability.
  Suddenly it's nearly Christmas and I still have a million and one things to do.
  I have a million and one things to do in the house and my motivation is still on extended vacation.
  Synonyms
  a large amount, a fair amount, a good deal, a great deal, a deal, a great quantity, quantities, an abundance, a wealth, a profusion, plenty, masses
4. 1.4 A million dollars.
  百万英镑（或美元）
  the author is set to make millions
  这个作者将会赚到几百万元。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I ran into a group of people who will pay big money - millions - to the person who solves their one problem.
  Didn't they invest a few million into the company a few years ago?
  There is no way any of us are going to get her an elite card, not even if we won a million on the lottery.
  They stand to lose millions in revenue following the discovery of one infected cow in Alberta in May this year.
5. 1.5the millions The bulk of the population.
  大众，群众
  movies for the millions
  为大众制作的电影。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The sense that historical fiction had sunk to the condition of adventure stories for boys, and romance for the millions, cast a blight on the genre in the 20th cent.
  Every cent you give will go a very long way towards creating a world that is truly for the millions, not the millionaires.

Phrases

look (or feel)(like) a million dollars

informal (of a person) look or feel extremely good.
〈非正式〉（人）看上去非常好的；感觉非常好的
Example sentencesExamples
- Why bother, when Milan will always end up leaving you looking like a million dollars?
- The house will look like a million dollars when it's all done.
- I felt I looked a million dollars - for the first and last time.
- I feel like a million dollars as we cruise towards Manhattan.
- This involves sometimes dressing up to the nines, doing grand things and looking like a million dollars.
- And the glorious alpine summer weather will make you feel like a million dollars.
- He made you feel like a million dollars when you were with him.
- However, it was great to have her present and looking a million dollars.
- This was all built on a Mac, naturally, and it looks like a million dollars in Safari.
- But I made you feel like a million dollars, didn't I?

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, probably from Italian milione, from mille ‘thousand’ + the augmentative suffix -one.

词汇	million
释义	Definition of million in English: million cardinal number ˈmɪljənˈmɪljən a/one million 1The number equivalent to the product of a thousand and a thousand; 1,000,000 or 10⁶ 一百万；一百万个 a million people will benefit 100万人将受益。 a population of half a million 50万人口。 a cost of more than £20 million 2，000多万英镑的成本。 Example sentencesExamples In Yorkshire alone, nearly half a million homes are at risk of low demand and abandonment. Last year more than half a million homes were left empty for at least a month at a time. When up to half a million people took to the streets, there was no looting. More than half a million people need to go to the doctor, and a third of these end up in hospital. Organisers countered by claiming that at least half a million people joined the demo. Despite the lucrative land sales, the village had only three million yuan in its accounts. The United Nations currently estimates that half a million people have so far been displaced. As a result, the album was a relative flop, failing to sell even one million copies. Nearly half a million people could benefit from a new scheme aimed at reducing hospital waiting lists. About half a million Dominicans live in New York, making it one of its largest immigrant groups. Experts say this could rise to six million barrels a day within five years with the right investment and control. Prehistory spans an almost inconceivably long time, perhaps as much as half a million years. Between them they will buy more than a million tickets for thousands of shows. Electoral officials in Ohio say they have recorded half a million new voters since March. In this way, it is estimated that some half a million people will be pushed off benefits. The total figures might have reached ten million by the end of the past century. One radar sweep covers 6 million cubic miles. At its peak the British auxiliary forces consisted of nearly half a million members. Last year the centre attracted a million visitors, half of whom visited the library. Nearly half a million metric tonnes of cereal food aid is needed over the next six months. 1.1millions The numbers from a million to a billion. （表示100万到10亿之间的数目）上百万，数百万 Example sentencesExamples Before European settlers arrived, gray wolves once roamed all over North America, their population in the millions. It also includes money, in the millions and billions. The report wrongly gave earnings and revenue numbers in billions rather than millions. From a pre-contact population in the millions, by 1900 they were reduced to a culturally destroyed remnant of 250,000. 1.2millions Several million things or people. 数百万之物；数百万之众 millions of TV viewers 几百万的电视观众。 Example sentencesExamples Despite the abundance, there are still millions of people who go without water, or have to battle to get drips for consumption. Where is the evidence of fossils being millions of years old? We had many cases that involved multiple defendants and millions of dollars of counterfeit money. A lack of aid and an abundance of problems threaten millions in Southern Africa. Now multiply that by millions of students and other computer users and the problem comes into sharp focus. Liquid water is the basic requirement for life, and Earth's abundant supply supports millions of organisms. She realized her own experience must be multiplied by millions and wrote a guide to coping with depression on the job. Multiply that by millions of digital photographers and you are talking about a lot of digital information. Voice is the one application that every business uses, with millions of telephone calls being made every day. In most countries, ensuring all children improved access to basic services would require millions - not billions - of dollars. All the energy built up by the twisting of the plasma is suddenly released, as if millions of atomic bombs exploded in just a few seconds. New banking providers also have to recognise, he said, that there are still millions of customers who have never used a telephone to talk to their bank. Some in Mexico view the exodus of millions of people as an embarrassment while others as an escape valve for social unrest. Although the discrepancy may not look large, it is likely to represent very significant sums of money when multiplied by millions of customers. Their violation costs employers multiple millions of dollars and widespread condemnation. It has cost that state multiple millions of dollars. What parent - Morgan among them - would want their child's every misstep or embarrassment exaggerated and witnessed by millions? Its advantages are formidable: abundant cheap labor, millions of talented engineers, good infrastructure. He should give some thought to the millions of viewers disenfranchised by the sell-out. To provide that level of service we would be talking about spending literally millions of pounds. Synonyms a lot of money, a fortune, a considerable sum of money, a vast sum of money, millions, billions, a king's ransom, a killing, a windfall, a bonanza 1.3informal An unspecified but very large number or amount of something. 〈非正式〉许多，无数 I've got millions of beer bottles in my cellar 我的地窖里有无数的啤酒瓶。 you're one in a million 你是无与伦比的。 Example sentencesExamples Suddenly it's nearly Christmas and I still have a million and one things to do. You will see how my anxiety level went from zero to a million over the span of an hour. I have no idea where she is or what she's doing, and my mind is running at a million miles an hour. I drove a sports car about a week ago and the brakes are about a million times better than that. Influenza, whose genes evolve a million times faster than ours, is a master of adaptability. He points out that they often find their finished product a million miles away from the original concept. I have a million and one things to do in the house and my motivation is still on extended vacation. Synonyms a large amount, a fair amount, a good deal, a great deal, a deal, a great quantity, quantities, an abundance, a wealth, a profusion, plenty, masses 1.4 A million pounds or dollars. 百万英镑（或美元） the author is set to make millions 这个作者将会赚到几百万元。 Example sentencesExamples Didn't they invest a few million into the company a few years ago? They stand to lose millions in revenue following the discovery of one infected cow in Alberta in May this year. I ran into a group of people who will pay big money - millions - to the person who solves their one problem. There is no way any of us are going to get her an elite card, not even if we won a million on the lottery. 1.5the millions The bulk of the population. 大众，群众 movies for the millions 为大众制作的电影。 Example sentencesExamples The sense that historical fiction had sunk to the condition of adventure stories for boys, and romance for the millions, cast a blight on the genre in the 20th cent. Every cent you give will go a very long way towards creating a world that is truly for the millions, not the millionaires. Phrases gone a million informal (of a person) completely defeated or finished. 〈澳，非正式〉（人）完蛋；垮掉 look (or feel)(like) a million dollars informal Look or feel extremely good. 〈非正式〉（人）看上去非常好的；感觉非常好的 Example sentencesExamples I felt I looked a million dollars - for the first and last time. However, it was great to have her present and looking a million dollars. This involves sometimes dressing up to the nines, doing grand things and looking like a million dollars. The house will look like a million dollars when it's all done. And the glorious alpine summer weather will make you feel like a million dollars. But I made you feel like a million dollars, didn't I? I feel like a million dollars as we cruise towards Manhattan. Why bother, when Milan will always end up leaving you looking like a million dollars? He made you feel like a million dollars when you were with him. This was all built on a Mac, naturally, and it looks like a million dollars in Safari. Derivatives millionfold adverb & adjective ˈmɪljənfəʊldˈmɪljənˌfoʊld It may drive us mad if we begin to think of public evils as millionfold evils. Example sentencesExamples Japanese investigators have discovered that plastics can concentrate hydrophobic chemicals a millionfold. By the turn of the eighteenth century, that estimate stood at 20,000,000,000 Earth radii - a millionfold increase. The end result is that when the intensity is increased a millionfold we perceive the loudness to have increased by a factor of twelve. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, probably from Italian milione, from mille 'thousand' + the augmentative suffix -one. In Latin mille means ‘a thousand’—as in mile and millennium (mid 17th century). In million, the thousand got multiplied by itself. This seems to have happened in Italian, where the word millione (now milione) was formed. In 1956 Frank Sinatra and Celeste Holm enjoyed great success with the duet ‘Who wants to be a millionaire?’ from Cole Porter's High Society. The answer in the song is ‘I don't’, but the television company ITV found that they were in a small minority when they introduced the quiz show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? in September 1998. Thousands have applied to be contestants and millions have been won; the show has given several catchphrases to the language, including ‘phone a friend’ and ‘ is that your final answer?’ The top prize in the British show is a million pounds, but the first millionaires had a thousand French francs. The poet Lord Byron wrote in a letter in 1816: ‘He is still worth at least 50-000 pds—being what is called here a “Millionaire” that is in Francs and such Lilliputian coinage, introducing the word to English.’ Rhymes billion, jillion, bajillion, modillion, multibillion, multimillion, pillion, septillion, sextillion, squillion, trillion, zillion num.1 phr. Definition of million in US English: million cardinal numberˈmɪljənˈmilyən a/one million 1The number equivalent to the product of a thousand and a thousand; 1,000,000 or 10⁶ 一百万；一百万个 a million people will benefit 100万人将受益。 a population of half a million 50万人口。 a cost of more than $20 million 2，000多万英镑的成本。 Example sentencesExamples Nearly half a million people could benefit from a new scheme aimed at reducing hospital waiting lists. Electoral officials in Ohio say they have recorded half a million new voters since March. Last year the centre attracted a million visitors, half of whom visited the library. Prehistory spans an almost inconceivably long time, perhaps as much as half a million years. The total figures might have reached ten million by the end of the past century. Last year more than half a million homes were left empty for at least a month at a time. About half a million Dominicans live in New York, making it one of its largest immigrant groups. Nearly half a million metric tonnes of cereal food aid is needed over the next six months. More than half a million people need to go to the doctor, and a third of these end up in hospital. Organisers countered by claiming that at least half a million people joined the demo. Experts say this could rise to six million barrels a day within five years with the right investment and control. As a result, the album was a relative flop, failing to sell even one million copies. One radar sweep covers 6 million cubic miles. At its peak the British auxiliary forces consisted of nearly half a million members. The United Nations currently estimates that half a million people have so far been displaced. Between them they will buy more than a million tickets for thousands of shows. Despite the lucrative land sales, the village had only three million yuan in its accounts. In this way, it is estimated that some half a million people will be pushed off benefits. When up to half a million people took to the streets, there was no looting. In Yorkshire alone, nearly half a million homes are at risk of low demand and abandonment. 1.1millions The numbers from a million to a billion. （表示100万到10亿之间的数目）上百万，数百万 Example sentencesExamples Before European settlers arrived, gray wolves once roamed all over North America, their population in the millions. The report wrongly gave earnings and revenue numbers in billions rather than millions. From a pre-contact population in the millions, by 1900 they were reduced to a culturally destroyed remnant of 250,000. It also includes money, in the millions and billions. 1.2millions Several million things or people. 数百万之物；数百万之众 millions of TV viewers 几百万的电视观众。 Example sentencesExamples Voice is the one application that every business uses, with millions of telephone calls being made every day. Some in Mexico view the exodus of millions of people as an embarrassment while others as an escape valve for social unrest. He should give some thought to the millions of viewers disenfranchised by the sell-out. All the energy built up by the twisting of the plasma is suddenly released, as if millions of atomic bombs exploded in just a few seconds. In most countries, ensuring all children improved access to basic services would require millions - not billions - of dollars. Liquid water is the basic requirement for life, and Earth's abundant supply supports millions of organisms. A lack of aid and an abundance of problems threaten millions in Southern Africa. Its advantages are formidable: abundant cheap labor, millions of talented engineers, good infrastructure. What parent - Morgan among them - would want their child's every misstep or embarrassment exaggerated and witnessed by millions? Despite the abundance, there are still millions of people who go without water, or have to battle to get drips for consumption. To provide that level of service we would be talking about spending literally millions of pounds. Their violation costs employers multiple millions of dollars and widespread condemnation. Where is the evidence of fossils being millions of years old? Although the discrepancy may not look large, it is likely to represent very significant sums of money when multiplied by millions of customers. Now multiply that by millions of students and other computer users and the problem comes into sharp focus. We had many cases that involved multiple defendants and millions of dollars of counterfeit money. New banking providers also have to recognise, he said, that there are still millions of customers who have never used a telephone to talk to their bank. Multiply that by millions of digital photographers and you are talking about a lot of digital information. She realized her own experience must be multiplied by millions and wrote a guide to coping with depression on the job. It has cost that state multiple millions of dollars. Synonyms a lot of money, a fortune, a considerable sum of money, a vast sum of money, millions, billions, a king's ransom, a killing, a windfall, a bonanza 1.3informal An unspecified but very large number or amount of something. 〈非正式〉许多，无数 I've got millions of beer bottles in my cellar 我的地窖里有无数的啤酒瓶。 you're one in a million 你是无与伦比的。 Example sentencesExamples You will see how my anxiety level went from zero to a million over the span of an hour. I drove a sports car about a week ago and the brakes are about a million times better than that. I have no idea where she is or what she's doing, and my mind is running at a million miles an hour. He points out that they often find their finished product a million miles away from the original concept. Influenza, whose genes evolve a million times faster than ours, is a master of adaptability. Suddenly it's nearly Christmas and I still have a million and one things to do. I have a million and one things to do in the house and my motivation is still on extended vacation. Synonyms a large amount, a fair amount, a good deal, a great deal, a deal, a great quantity, quantities, an abundance, a wealth, a profusion, plenty, masses 1.4 A million dollars. 百万英镑（或美元） the author is set to make millions 这个作者将会赚到几百万元。 Example sentencesExamples I ran into a group of people who will pay big money - millions - to the person who solves their one problem. Didn't they invest a few million into the company a few years ago? There is no way any of us are going to get her an elite card, not even if we won a million on the lottery. They stand to lose millions in revenue following the discovery of one infected cow in Alberta in May this year. 1.5the millions The bulk of the population. 大众，群众 movies for the millions 为大众制作的电影。 Example sentencesExamples The sense that historical fiction had sunk to the condition of adventure stories for boys, and romance for the millions, cast a blight on the genre in the 20th cent. Every cent you give will go a very long way towards creating a world that is truly for the millions, not the millionaires. Phrases look (or feel)(like) a million dollars informal (of a person) look or feel extremely good. 〈非正式〉（人）看上去非常好的；感觉非常好的 Example sentencesExamples Why bother, when Milan will always end up leaving you looking like a million dollars? The house will look like a million dollars when it's all done. I felt I looked a million dollars - for the first and last time. I feel like a million dollars as we cruise towards Manhattan. This involves sometimes dressing up to the nines, doing grand things and looking like a million dollars. And the glorious alpine summer weather will make you feel like a million dollars. He made you feel like a million dollars when you were with him. However, it was great to have her present and looking a million dollars. This was all built on a Mac, naturally, and it looks like a million dollars in Safari. But I made you feel like a million dollars, didn't I? Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, probably from Italian milione, from mille ‘thousand’ + the augmentative suffix -one. num.1 phr.
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