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- per cent
- Conjugation : pl per cent
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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
- per cent [pə'sεnt]
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noun
[c]
百分之…
- a 20 per cent discount
- 优惠百分之20
- by 15 per cent
- 以百分之15
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1.
noun
[c]
百分之…
Collins English-English Dictionary
- per cent [pə 'sεnt]
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1.
adv
per centum in or for every hundred %
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2.
n
a percentage or proportion
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3.
n
[often plural]
securities yielding a rate of interest as specified
- he bought three percents
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n
[Etymology]
C16: from Medieval Latin per centum out of every hundred
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1.
adv
per centum in or for every hundred %
Examples
- They add on 9 per cent for service.
- 他们附加9%的服务费。 → add on
- crime has increased by 10 per cent
- 犯罪率上升了10% → by
- Oil prices fell by 0.2 per cent.
- 油价下降了0.2%。 → fall
- a {or} one hundred per cent
- 百分之百 → hundred
- an increase of 2 per cent in the volume of sales
- 销售量增长了百分之二 → increase
- a 20 per cent discount
- 优惠百分之20 → per cent
- by 15 per cent
- 以百分之15 → per cent
- seven point eight per cent
- 百分之七点八 → point
- unemployment is running at 20 per cent
- 失业率为20% → run
- The two opposition parties together won 29 per cent of the vote.
- 两个反对党加起来赢得29%的选票。 → together
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