thousand adj. 1.千,千个的。 2.无数的,很多的。 a thousand times 几千次;好多次,层次。 a thousand times easier 容易得多(一千倍)。 A thousand thanks [pardons, apologies]. 万分感谢[对不起]。 (a) thousand and one 无数的,很多很多的。 different in a thousand and one ways 千差万别。 for the thousand and first time 无数次,三番二次。 in the upper ten thousand 〔古、口〕属于上层贵族阶级。 n., 1.千,一千个[人,东西];千的记号。 2.〔pl.〕无数,许多。 a thousand=one thousand 一千。 three thousand 三千。 a hundred thousand 十万。 thousands of people 数千人。 a thousand to one =〔口语〕 a thousand nuts to an orange pip 千对一,几乎绝对的。 by the thousand 论千,按千(出售等)。 by thousands 好几千。 one in a thousand 千里挑一的人物,罕有[杰出]人物;例外。 tens of thousands of men 几万人。 thousands and tens of thousands 千千万万。
Braderson wouldn't have a thousand acres to his name . 勃洛得生名下连一千英亩地也不会有啦。
百科解释
A Thousand Acres is a 1991 novel by American author Jane Smiley. It won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1991 and was adapted to a 1997 film of the same name.