trillion

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tril·lion /ˈtrɪljən/ number (plural trillion or trillions)

1 HMNthe number 1,000,000,000,000 一万亿

In a short time the number of cells is more than a trillion.

不久细胞的数量就超过了一万亿。

two/three/four etc trillion

$5.3 trillion

5.3万亿美元

Japan’s exports were worth $43 trillion last year.

去年日本的出口商品价值43万亿美元。

trillions of pounds/dollars etc

the trillions of dollars in the bond markets

债券市场中以万亿美元计的资金

2 LOT/LARGE NUMBER OR AMOUNT informal an extremely large number of people or things 大量，巨额

a trillion

a shirt with a trillion holes in it

千疮百孔的衬衫

trillions of

We’ve made this mistake trillions of times before.

这个错误我们以前犯过无数次了。

3. British EnglishBrE old use the number 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 百万兆

—trillionth adjectiveadj

—trillionth noun [countableC]

Examples from the Corpus

trillion• Our cumulative merchandise trade deficit worldwide is more than $ 1 trillion.• The congressionally authorized limit on the debt is $ 4. 9 trillion.• Harvey predicted fund assets would rise to $ 2. 4 trillion in 1995.• The amount of uranium in the belt is about four billion tons, enough to make roughly a trillion tactical nuclear weapons.• With Mr Bush's plan for a $ 1.6 trillion tax cut, the problem is one of scale.• Of the total, $ 2.6 trillion would come from Social Security surpluses.• Banks still hold several trillion yen of bad loans.

From Longman Business Dictionary

trilliontril·lion /ˈtrɪljən/ number (plural trillion or trillions)

one million million; 1,000,000,000,000

The bank has assets of about a trillion euros.

Origin trillion

(1600-1700) French tri- “three” + -illion (as in million)

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