per cent

英 [pə ˈsent]

美 [pər ˈsent]

n.  百分之…
adj./adv.  每一百中

医学

Oxford 3000

牛津词典

noun

• 百分之…
  one part in every hundred
  1. Poor families spend about 80 to 90 per cent of their income on food.
     贫困家庭大约花费收入的80%到90%购买食物。
  2. It is often stated that we use only 10 per cent of our brain.
     常有报告称人只运用了大脑的10%。
  3. What per cent of the population is/are overweight?
     体重超重的人占人口多大的百分比？

adj.

adv.

• 每一百中
  by in or for every hundred
  1. a 15 per cent rise in price
     价格上扬15%
  2. House prices rose five per cent last year.
     去年房价上涨百分之五。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 百分之…
  You useper centto talk about amounts. For example, if an amount is 10 per cent (10%) of a larger amount, it is equal to 10 hundredths of the larger amount.
  1. 20 to 40 per cent of the voters are undecided...
     20%到40%的选民还犹豫不决。
  2. We aim to increase sales by 10 per cent...
     我们的目标是将销售额提高10%。
  3. The area has an unemployment level of 40 per cent.
     该地区失业率达40%。
  4. Per centis also an adjective.
     
  5. There has been a ten per cent increase in the number of new students arriving at polytechnics this year.
     今年，理工学院的新生入学人数增加了10%。
  6. Per centis also an adverb.
     
  7. ...its prediction that house prices will fall 5 per cent over the year...
     它作出的有关房价年内将下跌5%的预测
  8. It's 50 per cent wool, 50 per cent acrylic.
     它含50%的羊毛、50%的丙烯酸纤维。

双语例句

• Between July and August, oil product prices fell 0.2 per cent
  七八月间，石油产品价格下降了0.2%。
• Revenue from brown goods, including televisions and hi-fis, rose nearly 12 per cent.
  包括电视机和高保真音响在内的黑色家电的销售收入增加了将近12%。
• Kenya's population is growing at 4.1 per cent per annum.
  肯尼亚人口正以每年4.1%的速度增长。
• The bank's profits plunged by 87 per cent
  银行的利润骤降了87%。
• After the deduction of tax at 20 per cent, the interest rate will be 6.2 per cent.
  扣除了20%的税后，利率将为6.2%。
• I welcome the news that attacks on women on the railways are 19 per cent down.
  铁路上发生的袭击妇女事件下降了19%，这一情况我听了很高兴。
• Unemployment dipped to 6.9 per cent last month
  上个月失业率降到了6.9%。
• Wall Street was rocked by the news and shares fell 4.3 per cent by the end of trading.
  这则消息震惊了整个华尔街，股票在交易日结束时下跌了4.3%。
• A 22 per cent increase in car travel corresponds with a 19 per cent drop in cycle mileage per person
  乘车出行者的比率上升了22%，与之相对应，人均骑自行车的行驶里程下降了19%。
• The area has an unemployment level of 40 per cent.
  该地区失业率达40%。