1680s, from French trillion, from Italian trilione; see tri- + million. In the U.S., the fourth power of a thousand (one thousand billion, 1 followed by 12 zeroes); in Great Britain, the third power of a million (one million billion, 1 followed by 18 zeroes), which is the original sense. Compare billion.
雙語例句
1. Between July 1st and October 1st, the central bank printed over 2 trillion roubles.
在7月1日至10月1日之間，中央銀行印發(fā)了逾兩萬億盧布。
來自柯林斯例句
2. B . M. processors, it has achieved a top speed of 7 trillion math operations a second.
它基于IBM處理器, 最高速度是每秒7萬億次數(shù)學(xué)運(yùn)算.
來自時(shí)文部分
3. It is expected that China's GDP will have reached 12.5 trillion yuan ( US $ 1.5 trillion ) by 2005.