percentage

percent, percentage

这两个名词均可表示“百分比”之意。
percent: 或per cent 系拉丁语per centum的缩略，通常和一个具体数字连用，指具体的百分比。
percentage: 不受数字修饰，不指具体的百分比，通常用在一些形容词或起形容词作用的词之后，可也单独使用。

名词 percentage:

1. a proportion multiplied by 100
   同义词：percent, per centum, pct
2. assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
   同义词：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.
   现在人类所使用的所有纤维之中，有很大的百分比是人造的。
3. We have only a small percentage of foreign books.
   我们只有一少部分外文书。
4. What percentage of the earth is covered by oceans?
   地球上百分之多少被海水覆盖着？

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n.（名词）

A fraction or ratio with 00 understood as the denominator; for example, 0.98 equals a percentage of 98.
百分比：把00做为分母的分数或比率，例如，0.98等于百分之九十八
The result obtained by multiplying a quantity by a percent.
成数：通过增加一个百分比的数而得到的结果
A proportion or share in relation to a whole; a part:
部分，比率：与整体有关的一个比例或部分；一部分：
例句：
The hecklers constituted only a small percentage of the audience.
请问者只吸引了一小部分听众

An amount, such as an allowance, a duty, or a commission, that varies in proportion to a larger sum, such as total sales:
佣金，津贴：在比率上区别于如总销售额等一较大的总额的量，如津贴、税或佣金售额：
例句：
work for a percentage.
工作挣取佣金

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

Percentage, when preceded by the, takes a singular verb:
Percentage 被放在 the 后时， 用单数形动词：
例句：
The percentage of unskilled workers is small.
非熟练工的比例很小。

When preceded bya, it takes either a singular or plural verb,depending on the number of the noun in the prepositional phrase that follows:
当被放在a 后时， 可用动词单数或复数形式，这由后面所跟的介词短语中名词的数量而定：
例句：
A small percentage of the workers are unskilled.
少数工人是非熟练工。

例句：
A large percentage of the crop has spoiled.
大部分庄稼被毁