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hun·dred /ˈhʌndrɪd/ S2 W2 number , noun (plural hundred or hundreds)

1 HMNthe number 100 〔数字〕100

The tree was probably a hundred years old.

这棵树很可能已经有100年了。

two/three/four etc hundred

I make nine hundred dollars a week.

我一周挣900美元。

a journey of 15 hundred miles

1,500英里的旅程

hundreds of people/years/pounds etc

Hundreds of people were reported killed or wounded.

据报告有几百人伤亡。

2 a very large number of things or people 很多（人或物）

a hundred

They’ve had this argument a hundred times before.

这个问题他们以前已经争论过无数次了。

hundreds of something

He’s had hundreds of girlfriends.

他有很多女朋友。

3 a/one hundred percent spoken

a) COMPLETELYcompletely 百分之百，完全

I’m not a hundred percent sure where she lives.

我不能完全确定她住在哪里。

b) HEALTHY British EnglishBrE completely well 健康的，完全复原的

I’m still not really feeling a hundred percent.

我仍然觉得自己没有完全康复。

Examples from the Corpus

a/one hundred percent• I agree with you a hundred percent.• Absolutely I agree one hundred percent.• It is, of course, a hundred percent certain that this triggering device is battery-powered.• She hoped so, but she wasn't a hundred percent certain.• Therefore, even firms that are a hundred percent domestic get an extra lift from lower interest rates.• There was no doubt that Kirsty was one hundred percent MacKay.• All of our history, we stayed just about one hundred percent occupancy.• I'm not a hundred percent sure where she lives.• The unit included a spinning mill within its plant, producing one hundred percent wool yarn.

4 give a hundred percent (also give a hundred and ten percent) to do everything you can in order to achieve something 竭尽全力

Everyone on the team gave a hundred percent.

所有队员都尽了全力。

Examples from the Corpus

give a hundred percent• Everyone on the team gave a hundred percent.

5. [countableC] a piece of paper money that is worth 100 dollars or 100 pounds 100美元[英镑]的纸币

—hundredth adjectiveadj

her hundredth birthday

她的百岁生日

—hundredth noun [countableC]

Examples from the Corpus

hundred• A few hundred feet down is a tarred road.• The last hundred feet of elevation form a near-vertical cliff, effectively turning the mesa into an imposing dark fortress.• two hundred miles• The decision closes the doors on to hundreds of potential appeals by convicted drink-drivers.• The best thing they could do was comb the hundreds of pubs in the area.• The Secretary of State has presided over the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs in the defence industry in recent years.• The Cardwell, all by itself, according to Bill Stultz, weighed a hundred pounds.• The houses were in fact built in the eighteen hundreds to a design by Sydney Smirke for Bethlem Hospital.• The impulse to stop arises after you have gone only a few hundred yards.• a hundred years

two/three/four etc hundred• In that time they have built up a force of one hundred and fifty vehicles and three hundred and forty staff.• The hundred shares index closed up seventy three points at two thousand four hundred and ninety three point one.• There are shelves on another wall for about three hundred paperback books.• For two hundred quids we are talking Les Miserables, nods being as good as winks.• Since the program was created, roughly two hundred welfare recipients have participated in IndEx.• They were scarcely two hundred yards distant; yet such was the gloom that they could not be clearly distinguished.• Read in studio Boatmen are calling on local authorities to clean-up an historic section of a two hundred year old waterway.

hundreds of something• Hundreds of people marched in protest.

Origin hundred

Old English

hun·dred number

Chinese

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