milliard

milliard

1. In England they call one thousand million "a milliard".

十亿是英国对十万万的说法。

2. Statisticians have calculated that France alone makes a deposit of half a milliard every year, in the Atlantic, through the mouths of her rivers.

根据统计学的计算，仅法国一国每年就从它的河流倾入大西洋五亿法郎。