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A bajillion is not a real number. It is a playful, made-up count that means a huge lot — more than you can be bothered to count. There were a bajillion mosquitoes. I have a bajillion things to do. You will hear it from children and from adults being funny; you will not see it in maths, in a contract, or in careful news. It copies the ending of million and billion and sits with other joke-numbers such as zillion and . Though actually, nobody agrees how big a bajillion is, because it was never meant to be exact. If you need a true large number, say million or billion. If you need the feeling of way too many, this word does that job.
超多、好幾兆(開玩笑的說法,不是真的數字)
組成A joke-number built with the ending -illion, copied from million and billion. The ba- on the front is playful; it is not a real prefix with a meaning of its own.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bajillionnoun/bəˈd͡ʒɪljən/
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slangAn unspecified, absurdly large number (of).
- However, I have a bajillion cherry tomatoes. Is it worth it to try to make spaghetti sauce from them, or will it take 10 bajillion cherry tomatoes to make any quantity of sauce?
- I’m glad Oasis are back together—a bajillion people singing “Wonderwall” live will be transcendent—but, I dunno, I’m sort of hoping for a bit of drama between the bros?
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。