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A gazillion is an extremely large number — so large that you are not really counting. It is informal and playful, like zillion. Nobody agrees what the number is; that is the point. Children and casual speakers use it to mean a huge lot: a gazillion messages, a gazillion stars. You would not use it in maths class or in a serious news report, except as a joke. It belongs with other made-up -illion words that copy million and billion.
超級多、老鼻子了(口語誇張的大數目,不是真正的數字單位)
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。
gazillionnoun/ɡəˈzɪljən/
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slangAn unspecified large number (of).
- Even if you are not a transistor collector, it is still pretty neat seeing that many early transistors. Wowzers...yes indeed...wowzers! Ok...it is not a gazillion but sure is a bunch.
- First, he is merely following laws written by nativist Republicans. This is a cop-out. As president he sets priorities for the executive branch, which cannot catch and prosecute everyone who breaks any of the gazillions of federal rules.
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。