| 词组 | percentage - per cent |
| 释义 | percentage - per cent When you express an amount as a percentage of a whole, you say how many parts the amount would have if the whole had 100 equal parts. You write a percentage as a number followed by per cent or by the symbol %. So, for example, if there are 1200 people living in a village and 300 of them are children, you say that 25 per cent (25%) of the people in the village are children. What is the percentage of nitrogen in air? He won 28.3 per cent of the vote. Poland is 90 per cent Roman Catholic. Per cent is sometimes written as one word, especially in American English. Remember that 90 percent of most food is water. You also use percentage to indicate roughly how large or small an amount is as a proportion of a whole. For example, you can say that an amount is 'a large percentage' or 'a small percentage' of a whole. It's a tiny percentage of the total income. ...areas with a very high percentage of immigrants. When percentage is used like this in front of the plural form of a noun, you use a plural form of a verb after it. A good percentage of the people were his own age. When percentage is used in front of a singular form, you use a singular form of a verb after it. A high percentage of the pet population has been adopted off the streets. |
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