(a/one hundred)the number equivalent to the product of ten and ten; ten more than ninety; 100(Roman numeral: c or C.) 一百;一百个(罗马数字:c 或C.) a hundred yards away. 100码远。 there are just a hundred of us here. 我们这儿有100人。 ■(hundreds)the numbers from one hundred to 几百 an unknown number, probably in the hundreds, had already been lost. 已丢失的具体数字不知道,可能是几百吧。 ■(hundreds)several hundred things or people 几百物(或人) it cost hundreds of pounds. 要花几百英镑。 ■(一般作 hundreds)(informal)an unspecified large number (非正式)许多 hundreds of letters poured in. 许多封信蜂拥而至。 ■(the —— hundreds)the years of a specified century 百年,世纪 the early nineteen hundreds. 19世纪早期。 ■one hundred years old 一百岁 you must be over a hundred!. 你一定有100多岁了!。 ■one hundred miles per hour 时速100英里 ■(Cricket)a batsman's score of a hundred runs or more (板球)击球手获得的一百(或以上)的得分 ■(chiefly in spoken English) used to express whole hours in the twenty-four-hour system [主要用于英语口语,在二十四小时制中表示整 点]…点整 twelve hundred hours. 12点整。
noun
(Brit. historical)a subdivision of a county or shire, having its own court (英,史)百户邑(郡以下的行政单位,有独立法院) Wantage Hundred. 旺蒂奇百户邑。
常用词组 a (或one) hundred per cent
entirely; completely 完全,百分之百 I'm not a hundred per cent sure. 我不十分确定。 ■[usu. with negative](informal)completely fit and healthy (非正式)完全复元;健康 she did not feel one hundred per cent. 她感觉身体不是十分健康。 ■(informal)maximum effort and commitment (非正式)最大的努力,最大的支持 he always gave one hundred per cent for United. 他对联队总是给予最大的支持。
late Old English, from hund 'hundred' (from an Indo-European root shared with Latin centum and Greek hekaton) + a second element meaning 'number'; of Germanic origin and related to Dutch honderd and German hundert. The noun sense 'subdivision of a county' is of uncertain origin: it may originally have been equivalent to a hundred hides of land (see hide)