billion是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为num. /n. (美) 十亿， (英) 万亿，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, she's got a right to be!No woman ever stood by a man like--Lee, sweet, can't you see, idiot, if I skipped round the corner with seventeen billion Orchids, it'd be you I loved, and never anybody but you!
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wouldn' lay de weight er my finger on um, not f'r ten hund'd thous'n billion dollars, I wouldn't.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To comprehend the meaning of these figures, it is necessary to observe that a quintillion is to a billion as a billion is to unity; in other words, there are as many billions in a quintillion as there are units in a billion.
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