percent
英 [pəˈsɛnt]
美 [pərˈsɛnt]
n. 百分之…
Collins.5 / BNC.2802
同义词辨析
percentpercentage【导航词义:百分比】
percentn. 百分之…
〔辨析〕
只和基数词连用。
〔例证〕
House prices have increased by twenty percent.
房价涨了20%。
85 percent of the population in that town has computers.
该城镇有85%的居民拥有电脑。
房价涨了20%。
85 percent of the population in that town has computers.
该城镇有85%的居民拥有电脑。
percentagen. 百分比,百分率
〔辨析〕
指以百分数表示的数量或比率;和数字连用时,其后常接 point(s)。
〔例证〕
A low percentage of the population was illiterate.
人口中少数是文盲。
The percentage of married women who have part-time jobs is about 75 percent.
已婚妇女中从事兼职工作的比例约为75%。
Interest rates increased by five percentage points.
利率增加了5个百分点。
人口中少数是文盲。
The percentage of married women who have part-time jobs is about 75 percent.
已婚妇女中从事兼职工作的比例约为75%。
Interest rates increased by five percentage points.
利率增加了5个百分点。
牛津词典
- 百分比用文字表示为twenty-five per cent,用数字表示为25%。
Percentages (= numbers of per cent) are written in words as twenty-five per cent and in figures as 25% . - 百分比与不可数名词或单数名词连用时,动词一般为单数:
If a percentage is used with an uncountable or a singular noun the verb is generally singular.- 90% of the land is cultivated.
90%的土地已耕种。
- 90% of the land is cultivated.
- 如果是单数集合名词,北美英语动词用单数,英国英语用单、复数均可:
If the noun is singular but represents a group of people, the verb is singular in NAmE but in BrE it may be singular or plural.- Eighty per cent of the work force is/are against the strike.
百分之八十的劳动力都反对这次罢工。
- Eighty per cent of the work force is/are against the strike.
- 如果名词为复数,动词用复数:
If the noun is plural, the verb is plural.- 65% of children play computer games.
65%的孩子玩电脑游戏。
- 65% of children play computer games.
英英释义
noun
- a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)
双语例句
- The drug increases the number of red cells in the blood, enhancing oxygen uptake by 10 percent.
这种药增加了血液里的红细胞数量,从而将摄氧量提高了10%。 - Retail sales dipped 6/ 10ths of a percent last month, largely because Americans were buying fewer cars
上月零售额下降了千分之六,主要是因为美国人买汽车少了。 - He paid 20 percent down.
他付了20%的钱款。 - Motorways actually cover less than 0.1 percent of the countryside
高速公路的实际覆盖面积还不到农村地区的0.1%。 - The registration of the university shows an increase of 10 percent over last year.
这所大学的注册人数比去年递增了10%。 - The US government says that this year's corn crop should be about 8 percent more than last year
美国政府称今年的玉米产量应该会比去年提高8%左右。 - The increase slowed to 0.4 percent, possibly indicating the start of a downtrend.
增长幅度降到了0.4%,可能意味着下降的开始。 - They had to sell off 10 percent of all underutilized farmland.
他们不得不将10%未被充分利用的农田廉价卖掉。 - Crime has gone down 70 percent
犯罪率下降了70%。 - In 1987, McDonald's captured 19 percent of all fast-food sales
1987年,麦当劳占据了整个快餐业销售额的19%。