million

number

1. 一百万
   1 000 000
   1. a population of half a million
      五十万人口
   2. tens of millions of dollars
      数千万元
   3. It must be worth a million (= pounds, dollars, etc.)
      它一定值一百万。
2. 大量
   a very large amount
   1. I still have a million things to do.
      我还有很多很多的事情要做。
   2. There were millions of people there.
      那里人山人海。
   3. He made his millions (= all his money) on currency deals.
      他的万贯家财都是通过外汇交易得到的。

The plural form is million after a number, or after a word or expression referring to a number, such as ‘several’ or ‘a few’. 在数字或several, a few等表示数字的词或短语后，复数形式为million。


1. NUM 百万
   A million or one million is the number 1,000,000.
   1. Up to five million people a year visit the county...
      每年参观这个县的人多达500万。
   2. Profits for 1999 topped £100 million.
      1999年的利润超过了1亿英镑。
2. QUANT-PLURAL 数百万的；大量的；数不清的;不计其数的
   If you talk about millions of people or things, you mean that there is a very large number of them but you do not know or do not want to say exactly how many.
   1. The programme was viewed on television in millions of homes.
      无数家庭通过电视收看了这个节目。
   2. You can also use millions as a pronoun.
      
   3. This wretched war has brought misery to millions.
      这场悲惨的战争为无数人带来了不幸。

1. The company has budgeted$ 10 million for advertising
   公司已经做了1,000万美元的广告预算。
2. 27 million working days are lost each year due to work accidents and sickness
   每年有2,700万个工作日因为工作事故和病假而损失掉了。
3. Advertisers are already drooling at reports that this might bring 20 million dollars.
   广告商听闻这或许会带来2,000万美元的收益后已是垂涎欲滴了。
4. Drought and famines have killed up to two million people here.
   旱灾和饥荒夺去了这里200万人的生命。
5. One former director embezzled$ 34 million in company funds.
   一名前主管挪用了3,400万美元的公司资金。
6. The ambassador has endowed a$ 1 million public-service fellowships program.
   大使资助了一项100万美元的公共服务奖学金计划。
7. Two main glacial epochs affected both areas during the last 100 million years of Precambrian times.
   在前寒武纪的最后1亿年中，两个主要的冰川时期对两个地区都产生了影响。
8. Its research budget exceeds$ 700 million a year
   其研究预算每年超过7亿美元。
9. They spent 18 million pounds of Government funds fitting out the London headquarters.
   他们花费了1,800万英镑的政府基金将伦敦总部的设施配备齐全。
10. The Martins sold their house for about 1.4 million pounds
    马丁夫妇把他们的房子卖了140万英镑。
11. More than 100 million pounds will be lopped off the prison building programme.
    将从监狱建设项目中砍掉逾一亿英镑。
12. Profits for 1999 topped £ 100 million.
    1999年的利润超过了1亿英镑。
13. The programme was viewed on television in millions of homes.
    无数家庭通过电视收看了这个节目。
14. He has spent 19 million pounds, lost three cup finals and been relegated. So much for money.
    他已花了1,900万英镑，输掉了三场杯赛决赛，球队也降级了。钱也不是万能的。
15. Last year he netted a cool 3 million pounds by selling his holdings
    去年他通过出售自己持有的股份获得了整整300万英镑的净收入。
16. I'm broke, Livy, and I owe a couple of million dollars
    我破产了，莉薇，而且我欠了几百万美元的债。
17. They will pay about$ 673 million plus interest.
    他们将支付约6.73亿美元再加上利息。
18. His company settled with the American authorities by paying a$ 200 million fine.
    他的公司和美国当局达成了和解，同意支付2亿美元的罚款。
19. It added another$ 11.8 million to the take, for a grand total of$ 43 million.
    这就又增加了1,180万美元的收入，总计为4,300万美元。
20. She bought a lottery ticket and won more than$ 33 million.
    她买了张彩票，中了3,300多万美元。
21. The total cost of the project would be more than$ 240 million.
    该项目的总成本会超过2.4亿美元。
22. It yielded a profit of at least$ 36 million.
    它带来了至少3,600万美元的收益。

num.

look/feel like a million dollars/bucks

• 看上去 / 感觉好极了
  to look/feel extremely good

one, etc. in a million

• 万里挑一的人（或物）；不同寻常的人（或物）
  a person or thing that is very unusual or special
  1. He's a man in a million.
     他是个出类拔萃的人物。

noun

1. the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros

   Synonym:    1000000one thousand thousandmeg

2. a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole)
   1. there were millions of flies

   Synonym:    billiontrillionzillionjilliongazillion

adj

1. (in Roman numerals, M written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or units