You could add the £15,000 Bonus to the First Prize and win a grand total of £125,000!
头奖再加1.5万英镑的奖金,获奖金额共计12.5万英镑!
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grand of• This gives a grand total of 16,219 interconnections.• Each of the 96 subjects did the experiment twice, giving a grand total of 192 repetitions of the experiment.• In 1990, the residents bought the development-for a grand total of $ 1.• This compares to a grand total of £3.1 billion for the whole of last year.• A great day for the new committee, resulting in a grand total of £475.• He was earning $ 4. 70 an hour and taking home a grand total of $ 50 a week.• We are delighted and thrilled with the enthusiasm and ingenuity you have displayed while producing a grand total of over £2,500.
7grand (old) agean age when someone is quite old 高龄
She had reached the grand old age of 80.
她已经到了80高龄。
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grand (old) age• The house, despite its grand old age, is welcoming and comfortable.• In 1989 the Societyreached the grand old age of 100 years.• But even at the grand old age of 28, he was keen to give it a go.
8the Grand Old Man of somethingADMIREa man who has been involved in an activity or a profession for a long time and is highly respected 〔某活动或某行业的〕元老,老前辈
the Grand Old Man of British theatre
英国戏剧界的老前辈
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the Grand Old Man of something• That is, apart from the grand old man of Les Bleus.• What would the grand old man oftravel have made of the thirty nine days scheduled for the 1991 world tour?
—grandlyadverbadv
‘I am training her to cook for royalty, ’ Auguste said grandly.
grand• She made 60 grand last year.• You been right this far, and you need the five grand, so you're gon na be trying real hard.• Twenty-six grand was as nothing to her.• The director let me tune and regulate the piano, a beautiful old Steinwaygrand, in their small concerthall.• On receipt of my father's letter, I got drunk and sent him a cheque for twenty grand.• That you can give twenty grand to the Methodists and make all those tight-arsed matronsgreen?
From Longman Business Dictionary
grandgrand /grænd/ noun (plural grand)abbreviation G [countableC] informal
a thousand pounds or dollars
ten grand’s worth of goods
Origingrand1
(1500-1600)Old French“large, great”, from Latingrandis