percent, percentage

名詞 percentage:

1. a proportion multiplied by 100
   同義詞：percent, per centum, pct
2. assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
   同義詞：share, portion, part

1. Whisky contains a large percentage of alcohol.
   威士忌所含酒精的百分比很高。
2. Of all the fibers now used by man, a very large percentage is man-made.
   現(xiàn)在人類所使用的所有纖維之中，有很大的百分比是人造的。
3. We have only a small percentage of foreign books.
   我們只有一少部分外文書。
4. What percentage of the earth is covered by oceans?
   地球上百分之多少被海水覆蓋著？

per.cent.age

n.（名詞）

A fraction or ratio with 00 understood as the denominator; for example, 0.98 equals a percentage of 98.
百分比：把00做為分母的分數(shù)或比率，例如，0.98等于百分之九十八
The result obtained by multiplying a quantity by a percent.
成數(shù)：通過增加一個百分比的數(shù)而得到的結(jié)果
A proportion or share in relation to a whole; a part:
部分，比率：與整體有關(guān)的一個比例或部分；一部分：
例句：
The hecklers constituted only a small percentage of the audience.
請問者只吸引了一小部分聽眾

An amount, such as an allowance, a duty, or a commission, that varies in proportion to a larger sum, such as total sales:
傭金，津貼：在比率上區(qū)別于如總銷售額等一較大的總額的量，如津貼、稅或傭金售額：
例句：
work for a percentage.
工作掙取傭金

Informal Advantage; gain:
【非正式用語】 好處；收益：
例句：
There is no percentage in work without pay.
不支付薪水的工作毫無利益可言

Percentage, when preceded by the, takes a singular verb:
Percentage 被放在 the 后時， 用單數(shù)形動詞：
例句：
The percentage of unskilled workers is small.
非熟練工的比例很小。

When preceded bya, it takes either a singular or plural verb,depending on the number of the noun in the prepositional phrase that follows:
當(dāng)被放在a 后時， 可用動詞單數(shù)或復(fù)數(shù)形式，這由后面所跟的介詞短語中名詞的數(shù)量而定：
例句：
A small percentage of the workers are unskilled.
少數(shù)工人是非熟練工。

例句：
A large percentage of the crop has spoiled.
大部分莊稼被毀