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A bazillion is not a real number on a maths chart. People say it when they mean “a huge number” and they want to sound funny, tired, or both. “I have a bazillion emails” means far too many, not a number you could write down. It is playful, mostly American talk, at home in speech and messages, not in a careful essay or a science report. It sits with joke-words like zillion and . Though actually nobody agrees how big a bazillion is, because it was never meant to be exact — that is the whole joke. If you need a true figure, this is the wrong word.
老鼻子了、超級多(誇張的假數字,不是真的計量單位)
組成A joke number from 1939, made as a variation of zillion. The ending -illion is the same piece you meet in million and billion; people keep inventing new first sounds — zillion, gazillion, bazillion — to mean “too many to count”.
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。
bazillionnoun/bəˈzɪlɪən/
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slangmathematicssciencesAn unspecified large number (of).
- I second the need for a bazillion dollars. 'twould be nice. :-)
- I wouldn't sleep with him in a bazillion years, but I'm not scared of him.
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。