thousand

['θauzənd]

n.千
n.【C】成千上万, 许许多多

例句与用法：

Infant mortality (ie The rate at which babies die) was 20 deaths per thousand live births in 1986.

1986年的婴儿死亡率为生育成活率的千分之二十。

I received no less than ten thousand yen for my work.

我的工资多达一万日元。

She has a thousand pounds a month coming in from her investments.

她每月从投资中得到一千英镑收入。

Five thousand people were flown to Paris during the Easter weekend.

在复活节的周末有五千人乘飞机去巴黎。

Will we all survive until the year 2000? That's the sixty-four thousand dollar question.

我们大家是否都能活到公元2000年? 这个问题很难回答。

The audience was not less than five thousand.

听众至少也有五千人。

The audience was no less than five thousand.

听众有五千人之多。

The little boy can count up to a thousand.

这个小男孩能够数到一千。

详细释义：

a.

1. 一千的; 一千个的

2. 成千的; 许许多多的, 无数的

I've warned him a thousand times.

我警告过他无数次了。

n.

1. 一千; 一千个

The town has a population of ten thousand.

这个镇有一万人口。

2. 数千; 许许多多, 无数[P][(+of)]

The flood took away thousands of lives.

洪水夺走了成千上万人的生命。

短语词组：

a thousand and one

1. 一千零一; 许许多多

They were doing the experiment in a thousand and one ways.

他们正千方百计地做试验。

by (the) thousands

1. 大批大批地; 数以千计

Application letters from all over the country were pouring in by the thousands every week.

每星期有数以千计的申请信从全国各地纷至沓来。

thousands upon thousands

1. 成千上万

Thousands upon thousands of people attended the ceremony.

成千上万的人参加了那个仪式。