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100 一百 One hundred (of the children) have already been placed with foster families. 有一百名（儿童）已经获安排领养。 There were just a hundred of them there. 他们那里只有一百人。 This vase is worth several hundred dollars. 这只花瓶值几百美元。 She must be over a hundred (= a hundred years old). 她肯定有一百多岁了。 Hundreds of thousands of people are at risk. 有几十万人正处于危险中。 a hundred-year lease 一百年的租约
- a hundred, hundreds (of…)(usually informal)
a large amount 许多；大量 hundreds of miles away 数百里之遥 for hundreds of years 几百年来 If I've said it once, I've said it a hundred times. 这事我曾经说过，而且是说过很多次了。 I have a hundred and one things to do. 我有一大堆事情要做。 - (formal)
Men died in their hundreds. 大批的人死亡。
- the hundreds[plural]
the numbers from 100 to 999 100 到 999 间的数目；百位数 - the… hundreds[plural]
the years of a particular century 某个世纪的年代 the early nineteen hundreds (= written ‘early 1900s’) 20 世纪早期
- one, two, three, etc. hundred hours
used to express whole hours in the 24-hour system （表示 24 小时制的整点）一点整、两点整、三点整等 twelve hundred hours (= 12.00 midday) 十二点整
Word Originlate 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.
Idioms
give a hundred (and ten) per cent
a/one hundred per cent
in every way 在各方面；百分之百；完全 completely fit and healthy 十分健康
ninety-nine times out of a hundred
almost always 几乎没有例外；几乎总是