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thousand

英 ['θaʊz(ə)nd] 美['θaʊznd]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

n. 一千；一千个；许许多多
adj. 成千的；无数的

考试真题

It has a history of over two thousand years.

Thousands of bees left a town after landing on the back of a car when their queen got stuck in its boot.

If you could get the right ten thousand people to move from Silicon Valley to Buffalo, Buffalo would become Silicon Valley.

Fifty years ago, they were the latest thing in educational reform: big, modern, suburban high schools with students counted in the thousands.

And most noticeable of all, there is the phenomenon of large urban and suburban high schools that have split up into smaller units of a few hundred, generally housed in the same grounds that once boasted thousands of students all marching to the same band.

If you could get the right ten thousand people to move from silicon Valley to Buffalo, Buffalo would become Silicon Valley.

So we work very closely with a great group of volunteers called the One Thousand Elders.

Instead of flying thousands of miles in search of food, they make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds.

In thousands of ways, social workers help other people—people from every age, every background across the country.

This is a very sensible way for an animal to make decisions in the wild and would have been very helpful for humans for thousands of years.

The incandescent light bulb, invented by Thomas Edison, which came to be the symbol of inspiration, has been developed into hundreds, if not thousands, of forms.

No matter how hard you try, you can't turn something that large on a dime ( ' , 10 美分硬币 ),or even a few thousand dimes.

Her son Doug is one of several hundred thousand high-school seniors who had a painful fall.

Still, at the most selective schools, where thousands of candidates may submit identically high grades and test scores, a marginal item like the essay may serve as a tie-breaker between two equally qualified candidates.

""We would have probably gone ahead with this, maybe just getting a thousand iPhones and giving them out," Mr. Yu said. Yu said.

Traditional vocational training in public high schools is gradually declining, stranding thousands of young people who seek training for a craft without going to college.

In Einstein's day, there were only a few thousand physicists worldwide, and the theoreticians who could intellectually rival Einstein probably would fit into a streetcar with seats to spare.

Two weeks later, she arrived at Alaska, thousands of miles from her friends, her family and her past.

This exploitation has reached such extremes that presently it appears that some hundreds of thousands of species will be extinguished before the end of the century

As a young man, he began walking over tens of thousands of miles during his lifetime, through the south to Florida, the west to California and north to Alaska, where readers are taken a long and particularly hair-raising adventure on a large mass of floating ice

In a study analyzing data on thousands of Ohio State freshmen who lived in dorms, he found that black freshmen who came to college with high standardized test scores earned better grades if they had a white roommate — even if the roommate's test scores were low.

But she says nations will not make progress fighting hunger and poverty until they begin to focus on those critical first thousand days.

I have enough trouble delivering bikes to shops only forty miles away, never mind five thousand miles.

No matter how hard you try, you can't turn something that large on a dime, or even a few thousand dimes.

There's something in the region of six or seven thousand pounds a year, which is not high.

This is why we're all on board in focusing on those thousand days to improve nutrition.

Altogether there are some ten thousand of these volcanoes on earth, all but a few hundred of them extinct.

And years later, she was proud that her son had read thousands of books, was awarded a PhD in literature, and authored his own books, articles, poetry and fiction.

Berger looked at how people spread a particular set of news stories: thousands of articles on the New York time's website.

Companies produce thousands of different kinds of disposable products: paper plates, plastic cups, and cameras, to name a few.

He observed that homer was still admired after two thousand years.

Languages have been coming and going for thousands of years, but in recent times there has been less coming and a lot more going.

Once you have reached a thousand dollars, you'll find you probably have the motivation to continue to save even more.

People believed there was an ever-lasting supply and killed them by the thousands, commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain.

People have used secret codes for thousands of years.

Evidence shows that thousands of teachers and parents know a good thing when they see it and recommend Toknow to their friends.

The Chinese have used chopsticks for five thousand years.

They made more than one thousand dollars and the local family in need got the majority of it.

Thousands of spicy foods are on show in the fiery food and bbq festival.

To lift a big structure like the tremont hotel, pullman would place thousands of Jackscrews beneath the building's foundation.

TV Ears has helped thousands of people with various degrees of hearing loss hear the television clearly without turning up the volume.

We made our final offer, which still was thousands of dollars less than the other buyer's bid.

You might like to try a chocolate-covered habanero pepper—officially the hottest pepper in the world—or any one of the thousands of products that are on show.

Over the past decade, thousands of patents have been granted for what are called business methods Amazon.

Building on the basic truth about interpersonal influence,the researchers studied the dynamics of social influence by conducting thousands of computer simulations of populations manipulating a number of variables relating to people’s ability to influence others and their tendency to be influenced.

In Wisconsin the unions have rallied thousands of supporters against Scott Walker, the hardline Republican governor.

The fossil record shows that many species have endured for millions of years - so why shouldn't we? Take a broader look at our species' place in the universe, and it becomes clear that we have an excellent chance of surviving for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years.

For example, the Long Now Foundation has its flagship project a medical clock that is designed to still be marking time thousands of years hence.

Thousands of Aztec artifacts came to light during the digging of the Mexico City subway in the 1970s.

We are amazed today at the mere number of plays produced, as well as by the number of dramatists writing at the same time for this London of two hundred thousand inhabitants.