關於Thousand的意思和用法的提問

A: It sounds like, from context, that they are changing course or a decision that has been one way for a very long time, and they mean to say they shouldn't worry about making too big a change.

"It won't kill us to..." is an expression used to mean "it would be okay to..."

Another similar expression would be "It's not the end of the world if..."

A: It’s a play on words of the phrase “Thousands of years later”.

This means that someone cried for a long time.

A: 100 000
200 000
300 000 +

A: Yes it’s talking about time.
It means a very very very Long time.
A decade = 10 years
Imagine 10 years multiplied by 1000

A: That is the problem. ; )

By emphasising that governments did not control communication (for thousands of years) it suggests there was a time when they did.

It's like saying "for thousands of years people ate food." : )

A:
I have a thousand things to tell you.
My book collection could be in the thousands.
I wish I had a thousand dollars.
One day I'll own a house work six hundred thousand dollars.
The forest behind my house must have a thousand trees.

A: "5 Thousand" is the correct one.

A: we don't say "got homeless" in English. we only say "became" homeless.

A: a few thousand dollars is like for instance, $1000, $2000 or $3000. not a lot so a few thousand. several thousand dollars is a lot more than $3000, could be $10000 or more.

A: "Thousands of years" is more natural. And it's correct. In English "of" is used to describe relationships between words. You need "of" to show how "thousands" and "years" are related to each other.
For example, the phrase "5 cups of coffee" or "the support of my family". This word simply tells the listener how one thing relates to another in your sentence.
(I hope this wasn't confusing. :)

A: Cornered means you are surrounded on two/three sides by a wall (or some other barrier) and the other side(s) by zombies.

Surrounded means there are zombies all around you in a circle.

So if you are cornered, you are back against the wall. If you are surrounded, you are in open space but can’t go anywhere because they are around you in ever direction.

A: He bought thousands of books and read as many = He bought (2,000) books and he read (2,000) books.

He bought thousands of books and read as many more? = He bought (2,000) books and he read (4,000) books.
"As many more" means the same number again or twice the number.

A: if it's referring to the year, we say it as "twenty twenty". same goes for the other years, for example "twenty nineteen"

however, if you want to say "the phone costs $2020", you would pronounce it as "two thousand and twenty dollars"

hope it helps:-)

A: The first sentence is correct.
“I want to make food with vegetables and bread and write a book about it.”
Remember to add an ‘s’ at the end of plural nouns. Don’t put ‘a’ in front of the word bread.

A: Thousands.

A: @zeinaaa:

A: "I heard that there are more than three thousand Kanji in Japanese."

A: thousand

A: Are you refering to your pronounciation or the sentence written above?

Your pronounciation is good but the part of the sentence: "stunt show's spectacle" doesn't make sense

The sentence is most likely "Thousands and thousands went to see this spectacular stunt show" (might not be as i don't have enough context)

or could be: "Thousands and thousands went to see this stunt show's spectacular rides"

Hope this helps :)

A: Three thousand, three hundred and sixty five

A: Pretty good. Though at the beginning it should read "throughout five thousand years of history"