a number of people or things that are dealt with as a group 一批 Each summer a new batch of students tries to find work. 每年夏天都有新的一批学生要找工作。 🔊🔊 He worked his way through the batch of letters on his desk. 他遍历办公桌上的那一批信件。 We deliver the goods in batches. 我们分批交付货物。 🔊🔊
Extra ExamplesHow many books are there in each batch? 每一批书有多少本？ Have you seen the latest batch of opinion polls? 您是否看过最新一批的民意调查？ Funding has been approved for an initial batch of 35 aircraft. 首批35架飞机的资金已获批准。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- large
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an amount of food, medicine, etc. produced at one time （食物、药物等的）一批生产的量 Shall I make another batch of cookies? 我是否要再做一批曲奇饼？ loaves of bread baked in batches of 20 条面包，每批20个 He baked a fresh batch of rolls. 他新烤了一炉面包圈。 It is necessary to make new batches of flu vaccine whenever a different, virulent strain of flu makes an appearance. 每当出现不同的强毒流感株时，都必须制造新批次的流感疫苗。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- large
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computing 计算机 a set of jobs that are processed together on a computer 批；批量 to process a batch job 处理一批作业 a batch file/program 批处理文件／程序 to run in batch mode 按批处理模式运行
Oxford Collocations Dictionarybatch + noun- job
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Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the senses ‘process of baking’, ‘quantity produced at one baking’): based on an Old English word related to bacan, of Germanic origin. Current senses date from the early 18th cent.