怎么说英语"数字"？勿把billion错当成"亿"，后果很严重！

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老外记数字的说法和习惯和我们不太一样。他们常用的数字更高就是千，没有“万”的概念，正好和中文就差了一位数，3个零一组以“千”为单位进行区分。

这么说你也很难理解，给你讲讲吧，你会明白为什么千位数上会有“小逗号”。

There are two main types of numbers:

Cardinal Numbers（基本数字） - 1 (one), 2 (two) etc. (Used mainly for counting)

Ordinal Numbers（序数） - 1st (first), 2nd (second) etc. (Used mainly for putting things in a sequence)

Cardinal Numbers

（基本数字）

Cardinal numbers are normally used when you:

1. count things: I have two brothers. There are thirty-one days in January.

2. give your age: I am thirty-three years old. My sister is twenty-seven years old.

3. give your telephone number: Our phone number is two-six-three, three-eight-four-seven. (481-2240)

4. give years: She was born in nineteen seventy-five (1975). America was discovered in fourteen ninety-two

Large Numbers（大数字）

100 - one hundred *

101 - one hundred and one

200 - two hundred

300 - three hundred

1,000 - one thousand

10,000 - ten thousand

100,000 - one hundred thousand

1,000,000 - one million

10,000,000 - ten million

100,000,000 - one hundred million

1,000,000,000 - one billion

* Instead of saying One Hundred, you can say A hundred.

e.g. (127) one hundred and twenty-seven OR (127) a hundred and twenty-seven.

The same rule applies for one thousand (a thousand) and one million (a million)

Notice that you need to use a hyphen (-) when you write the numbers between 21 and 99 (twenty-one, ninety-nine).

With long numbers, we usually divide them into groups of three which are divided by a comma.

e.g. 5000000 (5 million) is normally written as 5,000,000

Ordinal Numbers

（序数）

You can normally create Ordinal numbers by adding -TH to the end of a Cardinal Number.

Ordinal numbers are normally used when you:

1. give a date: My birthday is on the 27th of January. (Twenty-seventh of January)

2. put things in a sequence or order: Liverpool came second in the football league last year.

3. give the floor of a building: His office is on the tenth floor.

4. have birthdays: He had a huge party for his twenty-first birthday.

记住这些数字的英语说法，因为你不小心多说或少说一个零，那都是相当大的误差。就好比你们公司的销售额是900多亿，翻译成英语时如果不小心写成了“900 billion”，老外看到都要吓傻了……然后接下来怎么办呢？将错就错吗？

汉语和英语的大数计数习惯就差了一位数，但正是这一位数让多少人”阴沟里翻船“？

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