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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++mil·lion /ˈmɪljən/ ●●● S3 W1 number (plural million or millions) 1 HMNthe number 1,000,000 1,000,000 百万 The book sold more than a million copies. 这本书售出了一百多万册。two/three/four etc million seven million dollars 700万美元 £37 million of new investment 3,700万英镑的新投资额millions of pounds/dollars etc Millions of pounds were lost in Western aid. 西方援助少了数百万英镑。2 LOT/LARGE NUMBER OR AMOUNTan extremely large number of people or things 极其庞大的数目；许多，无数a million I’ve got a million ideas. 我主意多得很。millions of something She has millions of friends. 她有很多朋友。3 not/never in a million years spokenNEVER used to emphasize that something is impossible or very unlikely to happen 一百万年以后也不，永远也不 She’ll never believe me. Not in a million years. 她决不会相信我，永远不会。4. look/feel like a million dollars/bucks informal especially American EnglishBEAUTIFUL/GOOD-LOOKING to look very attractive or feel very happy and healthy 看起来有吸引力/感觉很愉快[精神]5 in a million informal a) the best of all possible people or things 百里挑一的 She’s a wife in a million. 她是百里挑一的好妻子。 He’s so generous. He’s one in a million. 他这么慷慨大方，真是无人能及。 b) used to show how unlikely something is 可能性非常小的 It was a chance in a million that we’d find a fossil. 我们找到化石的可能性微乎其微。 —millionth adjective The park has just received its millionth visitor. 公园刚刚迎来了它的第一百万名游客。 —millionth noun [countable]
Examples from the Corpus
million• The $ 150 million bond has not yet been priced, said spokeswoman Mercedes Poblete.• The derivatives trading business lost $ 32 million in the quarter, compared with $ 28 million in profits a year earlier.• It sought a $ 400 million judgment.• Jim sits in front of four computer screens, controlling de-inking equipment that cost $ 42 million to install.• Simons also is trying to find corporate donors to buy a $ 2. 5 million video scoreboard.• Latinos, with 2 million voters in California, are the fastest-growing minority in the country.• By April 1981 the lake had a hundred million weevils, but in August came disaster.two/three/four etc million• Lourdes is one of the most popular pilgrimage sites for Catholics in the world, drawing over four million a year.• Only four million homes were owner-occupied 40 years ago compared with 15 million today.• Just over two million of our pupils sit down to a knife-and-fork meal at midday.• Stop the suffering ... two million pounds to help victims of domestic violence.• To descend into Olduvai Gorge - back two million years in time - is humbling.• For three million years, it had circled Saturn, waiting for a moment of destiny that might never come.• We must assume that creatures whose machines still function after three million years may build a society equally long-lasting.• Mind or intelligence had not been involved; those eons were empty of all that touched the emotions. Three million years!From Longman Business Dictionarymillionmil‧lion /ˈmɪljən/ number (plural million or millions) written abbreviation m 1,000,000Origin million (1300-1400) French Old Italian milione, from mille “thousand”, from Latin; → MILLI-mil·lion numberChineseSyllable
Corpus 1,000,000 Business the number
million
mil‧lion /ˈmɪljən/
number, noun (plural million or millions)
The book sold more than a million copies.
two/three/four etc million
seven million dollars
£37 million of new investment
millions of pounds/dollars etc
Millions of pounds were lost in Western aid.
2. an extremely large number of people or things
a million
I’ve got a million ideas.
millions of something
She has millions of friends.
3. not/never in a million years spoken used to emphasize that something is impossible or very unlikely to happen:
She’ll never believe me. Not in a million years.
4. look/feel like a million dollars/bucks informal especially American English to look very attractive or feel very happy and healthy
5. in a million informal
a. the best of all possible people or things:
She’s a wife in a million.
He’s so generous. He’s one in a million.
b. used to show how unlikely something is:
It was a chance in a million that we’d find a fossil.
—millionth adjective:
The park has just received its millionth visitor.
—millionth noun [countable]
mil‧lion /ˈmɪljən/
number, noun (plural million or millions) Date: 1300-1400
Language: French
Origin: Old Italian milione, from mille __thousand__, from Latin; ⇨ milli-
1. the number 1,000,000:Language: French
Origin: Old Italian milione, from mille __thousand__, from Latin; ⇨ milli-
two/three/four etc million
millions of pounds/dollars etc
2. an extremely large number of people or things
a million
millions of something
3. not/never in a million years spoken used to emphasize that something is impossible or very unlikely to happen:
4. look/feel like a million dollars/bucks informal especially American English to look very attractive or feel very happy and healthy
5. in a million informal
a. the best of all possible people or things:
b. used to show how unlikely something is:
—millionth adjective:
—millionth noun [countable]
