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- •Much, many and a lot.
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- •1. Regular adverbs:
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- •1. Adverb of Manner
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- •Numerals: BrE and AmE Числительные: BrE и AmE
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- •Note: Multiples of one hundred Примечание: Числа, кратные ста
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- •Singular or plural verb Глагол в ед. Или мн. Числе
- •Hundred, thousand, million Сто, тысяча, миллион
- •Note: Billion and milliard Примечание: Billion и milliard
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Hundred, thousand, million Сто, тысяча, миллион
The words "hundred, thousand, million" can be used with "one" or "a" (if "one" is meant). But only "one" is used before these words if they are followed by numerals in order to express an exact number. Compare these examples:
Слова "hundred, thousand, million" могут употребляться с "one" или "a" (если имеется в виду «один»). Но только "one" употребляется перед этими словами, если за ними следуют числительные, чтобы выразить точное число. Сравните эти примеры:
I saw about a hundred people there.
Я увидел там около ста человек.
One hundred thirty-five people were present at the meeting.
Сто тридцать пять человек присутствовали на собрании.
The lake is about a hundred and fifty miles from the nearest city.
Озеро находится примерно в ста пятидесяти милях от ближайшего города.
The lake is at a distance of one hundred fifty-two miles from the nearest city.
Озеро находится на расстоянии в сто пятьдесят две мили от ближайшего города.
Their house is almost a hundred and ten years old.
Их дому почти сто десять лет.
Their house is one hundred ten years old.
Их дому сто десять лет.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Лучше один раз увидеть, чем сто раз услышать.
She wrote exactly one thousand words.
Она написала ровно тысячу слов.
Can they pay a million dollars?
Они могут заплатить миллион долларов?
The price was one million two hundred thousand dollars. (Usually written as $1.2 million.)
Цена была один миллион двести тысяч долларов. (Обычно пишется как $1.2 million.)
The words "hundred, thousand, million" do not take the plural ending "s" when they are preceded by numerals in order to express an exact number. But the words "hundred, thousand, million" can take the plural ending "s" when they are followed by "of" + noun, in which case they have the meaning "a great number, a lot of". Compare these examples:
Слова "hundred, thousand, million" не принимают окончание мн. числа "s", когда перед ними есть числительные для выражения точного числа. Но слова "hundred, thousand, million" могут принимать окончание мн. числа "s", когда за ними следует "of"+ существительное, и в таком случае они имеют значение «большое число, множество». Сравните эти примеры:
We need three hundred volunteers. – We saw hundreds of people there.
Нам нужны триста добровольцев. – Мы увидели там сотни людей.
They sold two thousand cars. – There are thousands of books in her collection.
Они продали две тысячи автомобилей. – В её коллекции тысячи книг.
The company lost six million dollars. – The new radio program attracted millions of listeners.
Компания потеряла шесть миллионов долларов. – Новая радиопрограмма привлекла миллионы слушателей.
Note:
Примечание:
Certain fractions and ordinal numbers containing the words "hundred, thousand, million" may sound alike in some cases. Note the differences in spelling:
Некоторые дроби и порядковые числительные, содержащие слова "hundred, thousand, million", могут звучать похожим образом в некоторых случаях. Обратите внимание на различия в написании:
three-hundredths (3/100) – three hundredth (300th);
три сотых (3/100) – трехсотый (300th);
two-thousandths (2/1000) – two thousandth (2000th).
две тысячных (2/1000) – двухтысячный (2000th).
The context usually makes the meaning clear. For example: Five-hundredths can be reduced to one-twentieth. Yesterday the five hundredth baby was born in our new maternity hospital.
Контекст обычно делает значение ясным. Например: Пять сотых можно сократить до одной двадцатой. Вчера в нашем новом родильном доме родился пятисотый ребенок.