Numbers and Figures Teaching Aims:to help students consolidatetheir knowledge of the Englishlanguage; to introducelinguistic and interpretationtheories; to train students to bemore flexible as againstmechanical in interpretationpractice; to widen students’background knowledge and toimprove students’ability ofinterpretationTeaching Content:I. Review the main content of last unitII. IntroductionFigure interpreting is a highly difficult problems to beginners. Chinese and English have different ways of expressing numbers. In Chinese, we have a series of numerical characters to express particular figures. eg.十、百、千、万、十万、百万……，which are actually the multiples of “十”. But in English, there are no equivalents of “万”and “亿”. Relevant figures have to be expressed on the basis of “thousand”, “million”and “billion”. Note that American English does not use the “and”between hundreds and tens, for example three hundred sixty five (365).1. Five-Digit Numbers:a. 八万（80,000）: eighty thousandb. 二万一千五百三十六（21,536）：twenty-one thousand, five hundredthirty-six2. Six-Digit Numbers:a. 十万(100,000): one hundred thousandb. 八十八万八千八百(888,800): eighthundred eighty-eight thousand eighthundred3. Seven-Digit Numbers:a. 一百万(1,000,000): one millionb. 二百五十万(2,500,000): two million, fivehundred thousand / two point five million4. Eight-Digit Numbers:a. 一千万(10,000,000): ten millionb. 二千二百三十四万五千(22,345,000):twenty-two million, three hundred forty-five thousand / twenty-two point three four five million5. Nine-Digit Numbers:a. 一亿(100,000,000): one hundred millionb. 二亿七千七百七十七万七千（277,777,000）: two hundred seventy-seven million, seven hundred seventy-seven thousand6. Ten-Digit Numbers:a. 十亿(1,000,000,000): one billionb. 十一亿七千五百万(1,175,000,000): onebillion one hundred seventy-five million / one point one seven five billion7. Eleven-Digit Numbers:a. 一百亿(10,000,000,000): ten billionb. 四百五十亿(45,000,000,000): forty-fivebillion8. Twelve-Digit Numbers:a. 一千亿(100,000,000,000): one hundredbillionb. 二千八百八十八亿(288,000,000,000): twohundred eighty-eigth billion9. Thirteen-Digit Numbers:a. 一万亿(1,000,000,000,000): one trillionb. 二万三千亿(2,300,000,000,000): 2.3trillionIII. FractionsFractions are composed of numerator and the denominator. Cardinal numbers are usedfor the numerator while ordinal numbers are used for the denominator.1.a. 九分之一: one-ninthb. 三分之一: a/one thirdc. 三分之二: two thirdsd. 五分之三: three-fifthse. 八分之五: five eighthsf. 十分之九: nine-tenths2.a. 二分之一: a/one halfb. 四分之一: a/one quarterc. 四分之三: three quarters3.a. 五十三分之七十九: seventy-nine overfifty-threeb. 九十五分之二十六: twenty-six over ninety-five4.a. 十分之一: a/one tenthb. 百分之一: one hundredth; one percentc. 千分之一: one thousandthd. 千分之三: three-thousandthse. 万分之一: one ten-thousandth5.a. 五又三分之二: five and two-thirdsb. 六又二分之一: six and a halfc. 九又四分之一: nine and a quarterIV. Decimals1. Whole numbers on the left side of thedecimal point are pronounced the way cardinal numbers are usually read. The numbers after decimal point are spoken separately.a. 4.73: four point seven threeb. 45.21: forty-five point two onec. 3.126: three point one two six2. “0”after the decimal point can be pronounced either as the letter “0”or as zero/nought.a. 3.05: three point oh/zero/nought fiveb. 9.007: nine point oh oh/zero zero/nought nought seven;3. Pronouncing a decimal smaller than “1”“0”before decimal point is sometimesomitted. If pronounced, it is read as nought(in BrE) or zero(in AmE).a. 0.8: point eight; zero/nought point eightb. 0.323: point three two three; zero/nought point three two threeV. PercentagesYou should pay attention to that the stress is on the second syllable.a. 67%: sixty-seven percentb. 98.53%: ninety-eight point five three percentc. 100%: one hundred percentd. 0.5%: point five percente. 0.37%: point three seven percentf. 0.0009%: zero/naught point oh oh oh ninepercentVI. TotalsWhen expressing totals we can say: amount to/ add up to/ come to/totaleg: The population of the Common Market countries totaled/ came to/was 271.6 million in 1981.VII. Approximations大约数字在口译中常常出现，汉语译成大约、大概、约计、左右等等。

英语中常用about, nearly, around, approximately, almost, roughly, more or less, in the neighborhood of, some; 或在数字后加or so, or thereabout 等。

1. 大约二百美元:about /around /some /approximately / roughly/ more or less/ in theneighborhood of two hundred dollars; two hundred dollars or so/ or thereabout/ in rough2. twenty kilometers or sotwenty kilometers more or less 二十公斤左右3. 大约五十岁: around/ about fifty years old4. a. 我一定给了他大约两百磅。