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词汇 per cent
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Definition of per cent in English:

per cent

(US percent)
adverb pə ˈsɛntpərˈsɛnt
  • By a specified amount in or for every hundred.

    以百分之…地,每一百中有…地

    new car sales may be down nineteen per cent

    新车的销售可能会下降19%。

    staff rejected a 1.8 per cent increase

    全体员工拒绝1.8%的增加量。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Too often we find ourselves judging people when we are far from 100 percent a saint.
    • To get the cash we have to carry and sort a daily load which is 50 percent greater than before.
    • To put that in perspective, the district is twenty percent larger than the State of Massachusetts.
    • However, my experience of camp food is one hundred percent favourable.
    • The Government is saying that the best it can ever expect is 3.9 percent economic growth.
    • If anyone out there can explain to me how hair can be sixty percent shinier, please let me know.
    • The union has cut its wage demand by more than half, seeking a 2.5 percent yearly increase.
    • It has opened the door for 74 percent foreign direct investment in the telecom sector.
    • I thought about it for a few days and you know what, I think it's 100 percent the right thing to do.
    • What is felt towards you is ten percent genuine disagreement and ninety per cent envy.
    • You can't win in this world unless you are 100 percent flexible, and none of us are that.
    • Children whose diets were supplemented with milk rather than meat saw a 40 percent greater increase.
    • When the needle was rotated back and forth, the pullout force was 53 percent greater.
    • The cost of meat in the stores is at least 2 percent higher than it was last year.
    • In less than two years water bills in England had rocketed to 70 percent higher than anywhere else.
    • We lived in an area that was 99 percent Jewish, with immigrants from Russia and Poland.
    • If we are one hundred percent convinced of our case then a little dishonesty to iron out the odd inconsistency hardly seems wrong.
    • They say they are being paid nine percent less than their public hospital counterparts.
    • There are few if any behavioral characteristics in humans that are one hundred percent genetic.
    • We know this virus is 100 percent preventable, so why is the number of new cases on the rise?
noun pə ˈsɛntpərˈsɛnt
  • 1One part in every hundred.

    百分之一

    a reduction of half a per cent or so in price

    价格下调0.5%左右。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Seventy five per cent of all patients waiting for non-emergency surgery were admitted within three months for their treatment.
    • Sixty six per cent said that they thought a canal through the town centre was a good idea.
    • Thirty six percent of the vote to run the country cannot be right.
    • Only one half to one percent of the fruit Finn planted a few years ago will make it past this point.
    • Fifty nine per cent of the patients were positive for cocaine.
    • Only one per cent said they had been bullied because of their ethnic origin.
    • Florida law calls for a recount if the difference between candidates is less than half of one percent.
    • Sales for the past few years have only poked along, growing just a few percent per year since 1997.
    • Seventy nine per cent of patients with isolated long bone fractures received analgesia, which is consistent with a previous report.
    • Eleven and a half percent of the participants had no educational qualifications.
    • According to the report, these prices fell by half a percent in October.
    • To put that in perspective, we humans have been around for half a percent of that.
    • Only five per cent of respondents consider that vendors were open about the true costs associated with their products.
    • Well, you're one of the, probably, half of a percent of people who would actually do that.
    • One hundred percent of the respondents voted for the latter.
    • Twenty-one percent of renters paid more than half of their incomes for rent in 1981.
    • Sixty eight per cent of respondents used some form of electronic article surveillance in at least some of their stores.
    • One-third got advice from friends and only seven per cent said teachers provided appropriate information.
    • But the total bill increase ranges from 15.1 per cent to 16.2 per cent.
    • Email marketing has low response rates, typically less than half a percent, but is very, very cheap.
    1. 1.1 The rate, number, or amount in each hundred.
      百分比,百分率
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The second compatibility problem is a slow boot issue and we believe it is a small percent of users that have experienced this.
      • Some of the leases are based on a dollar amount per square foot and some on percent of income.
      • They speak of the reciprocal of the payback period as a percent per year rate of return.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from per + cent, perhaps an abbreviation of pseudo-Latin per centum.

Definition of percent in US English:

percent

(British per cent)
adverbpərˈsɛntpərˈsent
  • By a specified amount in or for every hundred.

    以百分之…地,每一百中有…地

    new car sales may be down nineteen percent

    新车的销售可能会下降19%。

    staff rejected a 1.8 percent increase

    全体员工拒绝1.8%的增加量。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The union has cut its wage demand by more than half, seeking a 2.5 percent yearly increase.
    • Children whose diets were supplemented with milk rather than meat saw a 40 percent greater increase.
    • If anyone out there can explain to me how hair can be sixty percent shinier, please let me know.
    • To get the cash we have to carry and sort a daily load which is 50 percent greater than before.
    • If we are one hundred percent convinced of our case then a little dishonesty to iron out the odd inconsistency hardly seems wrong.
    • However, my experience of camp food is one hundred percent favourable.
    • When the needle was rotated back and forth, the pullout force was 53 percent greater.
    • What is felt towards you is ten percent genuine disagreement and ninety per cent envy.
    • We lived in an area that was 99 percent Jewish, with immigrants from Russia and Poland.
    • To put that in perspective, the district is twenty percent larger than the State of Massachusetts.
    • They say they are being paid nine percent less than their public hospital counterparts.
    • You can't win in this world unless you are 100 percent flexible, and none of us are that.
    • The cost of meat in the stores is at least 2 percent higher than it was last year.
    • I thought about it for a few days and you know what, I think it's 100 percent the right thing to do.
    • We know this virus is 100 percent preventable, so why is the number of new cases on the rise?
    • It has opened the door for 74 percent foreign direct investment in the telecom sector.
    • The Government is saying that the best it can ever expect is 3.9 percent economic growth.
    • There are few if any behavioral characteristics in humans that are one hundred percent genetic.
    • In less than two years water bills in England had rocketed to 70 percent higher than anywhere else.
    • Too often we find ourselves judging people when we are far from 100 percent a saint.
nounpərˈsɛntpərˈsent
  • 1One part in every hundred.

    百分之一

    a reduction of half a percent or so in price

    价格下调0.5%左右。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • To put that in perspective, we humans have been around for half a percent of that.
    • Sixty six per cent said that they thought a canal through the town centre was a good idea.
    • But the total bill increase ranges from 15.1 per cent to 16.2 per cent.
    • Only one per cent said they had been bullied because of their ethnic origin.
    • According to the report, these prices fell by half a percent in October.
    • Thirty six percent of the vote to run the country cannot be right.
    • Sales for the past few years have only poked along, growing just a few percent per year since 1997.
    • Only one half to one percent of the fruit Finn planted a few years ago will make it past this point.
    • Seventy nine per cent of patients with isolated long bone fractures received analgesia, which is consistent with a previous report.
    • Fifty nine per cent of the patients were positive for cocaine.
    • Sixty eight per cent of respondents used some form of electronic article surveillance in at least some of their stores.
    • One hundred percent of the respondents voted for the latter.
    • Eleven and a half percent of the participants had no educational qualifications.
    • Florida law calls for a recount if the difference between candidates is less than half of one percent.
    • Well, you're one of the, probably, half of a percent of people who would actually do that.
    • Seventy five per cent of all patients waiting for non-emergency surgery were admitted within three months for their treatment.
    • Email marketing has low response rates, typically less than half a percent, but is very, very cheap.
    • One-third got advice from friends and only seven per cent said teachers provided appropriate information.
    • Only five per cent of respondents consider that vendors were open about the true costs associated with their products.
    • Twenty-one percent of renters paid more than half of their incomes for rent in 1981.
    1. 1.1 The rate, number, or amount in each hundred; percentage.
      百分比,百分率
      the percent of drug users who are infected
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They speak of the reciprocal of the payback period as a percent per year rate of return.
      • Some of the leases are based on a dollar amount per square foot and some on percent of income.
      • The second compatibility problem is a slow boot issue and we believe it is a small percent of users that have experienced this.

Usage

Both spellings, percent and per cent, are acceptable, but consistency should be maintained. Percent is more common in US usage; per cent is more common in British usage

Origin

Mid 16th century: from per + cent, perhaps an abbreviation of pseudo-Latin per centum.

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