No. 3,171 in Chinese
亿万
"亿万" means "hundreds of millions" or "billions."
In a sentence
这个项目吸引了亿万投资。
This project attracted billions of investments.
In this sentence, '亿万' is used to denote an immense numerical value, to express the extensive scale of the investments attracted by the project.
他的梦想是帮助亿万人民过上更好的生活。
His dream is to help billions of people live a better life.
Here, '亿万' is employed figuratively to indicate a large number of people, emphasizing the magnitude of the individual's ambition to bring improvement to people's lives.
亿万颗星星在夜空中闪烁。
Billions of stars twinkle in the night sky.
In this context, '亿万' vividly describes the uncountable number of stars in the sky, contributing to the imagery of the vast and mysterious night sky.
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