thousand

number

1. 一千
   1 000
2. 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。
3. 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。

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。


1. NUM (数字) 1,000
   A thousand or one thousand is 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。
2. QUANT 数千;成千上万
   If you refer to thousands of things 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 use thousands as 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。
3. a thousand and one → see: one

1. The South American Indians have been cooking and eating potatoes for well over two thousand years.
   南美印第安人烹调食用土豆已有2000多年的历史了。
2. She gets as many as eight thousand letters a month.
   她一个月里收到的信件多达8,000封。
3. 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。
4. A strike by some ten thousand bank employees has ended after the government conceded some of their demands.
   政府答应了他们的一些要求后，大约有一万名银行员工参加的罢工结束了。
5. 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。
6. Her one-of-a-kind custom garments are priced from one hundred dollars to more than a thousand dollars.
   在她这里定做一件款型独一无二的衣服，价格从100美元到1,000美元以上不等。
7. To date we have spent eight thousand pounds between us.
   迄今我们总共已经花掉了8,000英镑。
8. He had nearly a thousand acres of grazing and arable land.
   他有将近1,000公顷的草场和耕地。
9. 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。
10. I'm not in a financial position to turn up my nose at several hundred thousand pounds.
    我的经济境况使我无法对几十万英镑无动于衷。
11. According to the official figures, over one thousand people died during the revolution
    根据官方数字，1,000多人在这场革命中丧生。
12. 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。
13. They paid in that cheque a couple of days ago, and drew out around two thousand in cash.
    他们几天前将那张支票存入了银行，然后支取了近2,000元现金。
14. 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！
15. 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。
16. 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。
17. Three hundred thousand tons of cereals are needed to replenish stocks
    需要30万吨谷类补充库存。
18. 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。
19. Thirty thousand spectators watched the final game.
    3万名观众观看了决赛。
20. Its total surface area was seven thousand square feet.
    它的总表面积为7,000平方英尺。
21. Visitors can expect to pay about a thousand pounds a day.
    游客每天大概要支付1,000英镑。
22. 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。
23. I must have driven past that place thousands of times.
    我得有上千次开车经过那里。
24. 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。
25. One thousand yuan has been drawn from the account and there is still one thousand yuan left.
    这笔款子提了一千元，下存一千元。
26. Ten thousand copies of the book were sold.
    那本书卖了1万册。

num.

bat a thousand

• 非常成功；大获全胜
  to be very successful

noun

1. the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

   Synonym:    one thousand1000MKchiliadGgrandthouyard

adj

1. denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units

   Synonym:    one thousand1000mk