percentage
n
1 [C] rate, number or amount in each hundred 百分比; 百分率
The figure is expressed as a percentage. 那数字是以百分比表示的.
The salesmen get a percentage (ie a commission) on everything they sell. 这些推销员可从推销的商品上获得一定百分比的佣金.
[attrib 作定语]
a percentage increase in ticket prices 票价上涨的百分比.
2 [sing or pl v]
proportion 比例; 部分
What percentage of his income is taxable? 他的收入有多少需纳所得税?
An increasing percentage of the population own their own homes. 自己有房子的人占人口比例越来越大了.
Well, we could reschedule the operation, Mrs. Herrera,
这样吧,我们可以重新安排手术,Herrera太太。
The weakest goes to the wall.
适者生存。
Do you remember one afternoon ten years ago when I came to your house and borrowed a necklace of yours? Pierre, my husband, was working in a government office. We'd been invited to a ball at the palace so I needed to borrow some jewellery.