hundreds and thousands

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌhʌndɹəds n̩ ˈθaʊz(ə)ndz/    美 /ˌhʌndɹəds n̩ ˈθaʊz(ə)n(d)z/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An indefinite but emphatically large number. plural,plural-only
    — 1864 September 12, W. T. Sherman, letter to James M. Calhoun, E. E. Rawson and S. C. Wells, representing City Council of Atlanta, published in 1865, Joel Tyler Headley, Grant and Sherman: Their Campaigns and Generals, 2008, page 592, I myself have seen in Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi, hundreds and thousands of women and children fleeing from your armies and desperadoes, hungry, and with bleeding feet.
  2. Tiny balls or strands of multicoloured sugar, sprinkled over ice cream, desserts or party foods. Commonwealth,Ireland,UK,plural,plural-only
    — So there you have them - Onoda, Gund, Eclipse - all squidged together on the same spoon, their flavours intermingling under a bleeding crust of hundreds-and-thousands.

词形变化

100s and 1000s alternative 100s & 1000s alternative

词源

PIE word
*ḱm̥tóm
From hundreds + and + thousands. Sense 2 (“tiny balls or strands of multicoloured sugar”) is from the fact that the confectionery is made up of numerous sugar pieces.
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