| 释义 |
jillion orig. U.S.|ˈdʒɪljən|
[Fanciful formation after billion, million.]
Very many, a great many.
1942Berrey & Van Den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §18/6 Indefinite number, jillion. 1945L. Shelly Jive Talk Dict., Jillion, a lot of people or money. 1950Time 13 Feb. 10/1 After Spindletop, in the superlatives of the oilfields, came a jillion jackpots—roaring booms at Electra, Ranger, Burkburnett, Desdemona and Mexia proved that oil was where you found it. 1957New Yorker 2 Nov. 141/1 ‘Oh, I've got a jillion,’ he replied. ‘A jillion ties and no wife. I have ties from many parts of the world.’ 1963‘R. L. Pike’ Mute Witness (1965) vi. 100, I bet I've hit about a jillion travel agencies today. 1971Physics Bull. Nov. 682/3 Gamesters with ‘game theories’ of a jillion different maliciously fixable kinds. |