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。
not/never in a million years• I never would have guessed in a million years!• He was rich as Croesus, something he had never expected to be, not in a million years.• No parent is going to believe this pigtail story, not in a million years.• I still had to find Wally and attempt to explain what I would never in a million years be able to explain.• Never in a million years did I think we'd lose.• It is based on a true story so outrageous that it would never in a million years have passed muster as fiction.• The real reason for her lack of promotion, she knew, would never in a million years occur to him.• You'd never in a million years see a dancing man in a field in the country. 4. look/feel like a million dollars/bucks informal especially American EnglishAmEBEAUTIFUL/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]look/feel like a million dollars/bucks• I felt like a million dollars.
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。
a chance in a million• In fact they were saved by a chance in a million.• It was a chance in a million, and if he did not grasp it, one of his competitors would. —millionth adjectiveadj 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 [countableC]