late 14c., from Old French million (late 13c.), from Italian millione (now milione), literally "a great thousand," augmentative of mille "thousand," from Latin mille, which is of uncertain origin. Used mainly by mathematicians until 16c. India, with its love of large numbers, had names before 3c. for numbers well beyond a billion. The ancient Greeks had no name for a number greater than ten thousand, the Romans for none higher than a hundred thousand. "A million" in Latin would have been decies centena milia, literally "ten hundred thousand." Million to one as a type of "long odds" is attested from 1761. Related: Millions.
双语例句
1. Three hundred million dollars will be nothing like enough.
3亿美元远远不够。
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2. Albania is a small nation state of around 3 million people.
阿尔巴尼亚是一个大约有300万人口的单一民族独立国家。
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3. The disease wiped out 40 million rabbits at a stroke.
该疾病一下子就使4,000万只兔子丧命。
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4. Somalia, pop. 7.9 million, income per head about £1.60 a week.
索马里，人口790万，人均收入大约每周1.60英镑。
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5. America imports about 190 million pounds of tea a year.