by the thousand

基本解释

Letters poured in by the thousand and almost all were indignant at the treatment of Mr Radulovich.
上千封的信件如潮水一般涌入，几乎每个人都对拉杜洛维奇先生的遭遇感到气恼。
Should he wish it, a Mughal ruler need only lift his finger to lay waste his enemies by the thousand.
莫卧儿的领袖只需要抬起他的手指便能让他的敌人灰飞烟灭。
As China’s exporters go bust by the thousand, industries from textiles to steel have been promised handouts and rebates.
由于中国有数以千计的出口企业走向倒闭，从纺织业到钢铁业都得到了资助和退税的承诺。

The report estimates that there may be an additional one hundred million people with asthma by the year two thousand twenty-five.
The plan now is to have about a thousand and nine hundred something civilian people on the ground in Afghnastan by New Years Day which is about three times of we had last year.
现在的计划是说我们将要派大概1900平民到阿富汗,在新年之前,这个数量是去年的三倍之多。
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That's 1800 times faster. But the real one that blows me away is, it has 2 gig of memory inside of it. That's 12 thousand times more memory. Oh, and by the way?
比以前快了1800倍,但是真让我感到吃惊的是,它有2G的内存，这是以前的12000倍,顺便说一句我的？
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The arrival of Polish plumbers, even by the thousand, could only have been a blessing.
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