thousand

英 [ˈθaʊznd]

美 [ˈθaʊznd]

num.  一千; 数以千计的; 成千上万的; 许许多多的; 1 000到9 999间的数目; 千位数

中考高考IELTS考研

Collins.5 / BNC.631 / COCA.651

习惯用语

num.

bat a thousand
• 非常成功；大获全胜
  to be very successful

牛津词典

number

• 一千
  1 000
• 数以千计的；成千上万的；许许多多的
  a large number
  1. There were thousands of people there.
     那里有成千上万的人。
• 1 000到9 999间的数目；千位数
  the numbers from 1 000 to 9 999
  1. The cost ran into the thousands.
     成本达到千位数。

柯林斯词典

The plural form is thousand after a number, or after a word or expression referring to a number, such as ‘several’ or ‘a few’. 用在数字以及 several，a few 等表示数量的词或短语之后时，thousand 的复数形式不变。


• NUM (数字) 1,000
  A thousandorone thousandis the number 1,000.
  1. ...five thousand acres...
     5,000 英亩
  2. Visitors can expect to pay about a thousand pounds a day.
     游客每天大概要支付 1,000 英镑。
• QUANT 数千;成千上万
  If you refer tothousands ofthings or people, you are emphasizing that there are very many of them.
  1. Thousands of refugees are packed into overcrowded towns and villages...
     成千上万的难民涌入拥挤不堪的城镇和村庄。
  2. I must have driven past that place thousands of times.
     我得有上千次开车经过那里。
  3. You can also usethousandsas a pronoun.
     
  4. Hundreds have been killed in the fighting and thousands made homeless.
     数百人在战斗中丧生，数千人无家可归。
• a thousand and one→ see:one

英英释义

noun

• the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
  Synonym:one thousand1000MKchiliadGgrandthouyard

adj

• denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units
  Synonym:one thousand1000mk

双语例句

• The survey used a random sample of two thousand people across England and Wales
  该调查在英格兰和威尔士随机抽样了2,000人。
• They have received at least twenty thousand pounds each but had gone to court to demand more.
  他们每人至少已经得到了两万英镑，但仍然向法庭提出诉讼要求获得更多。
• About a thousand students fought with riot police in the capital
  大约1,000名学生在首都与防暴警察发生了冲突。
• A thousand pounds worth of jewellery and silver has been stolen.
  价值1,000英镑的珠宝和银饰被盗。
• Visitors can expect to pay about a thousand pounds a day.
  游客每天大概要支付1,000英镑。
• Fields's will bequeathed his wife Hattie and son Claude the sum of twenty thousand dollars
  菲尔茨将遗赠给他妻子哈蒂和儿子克劳德共计两万美元。
• Me and my friends are out ten thousand dollars, with nothing to show for it!
  我和朋友亏了1万美金，还一无所得！
• Up to a thousand prisoners may be on the loose inside the jail
  监狱里可能有上千名囚犯跑出了牢房。
• The paintings in the chapel were perhaps a thousand years old
  小教堂里的这些画可能有1,000年的历史了。
• About six thousand people were arrested, several hundred of whom have since been released
  约6,000人被捕，后来其中的几百人又被释放了。