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數sou3萬maan6

simp数万
sou3 maan6inferredshù wàn

English

  1. several tens of thousands
  2. many thousand

Examples

  • 小星系「只」有數千顆星,最大的星系則有數萬億顆。

    Smaller galaxies have "only" a few thousand stars. The biggest ones have trillions.

    Tatoeba · LeviHighway CC BY

  • 我們目前人數不多,但只要政治策略得當,幾年後或許能達到數萬人。

    Today our numbers are few, but with the right political strategy, in a couple years we may number in the tens of thousands.

    Tatoeba · LeviHighway CC BY

Sources: cc-cedict, synthesized

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