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nought

noun
🔊/nɔːt/
🔊/nɔːt/
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  1. [countable, uncountable] (British English)
    (also zero North American English, British English)
    the figure 0（数字）零
    • A million is written with six noughts.一百万写出来有六个零。🔊🔊
    • nought point one (= written 0.1)零点一
    • I give the programme nought out of ten for humour.我给这个节目的幽默打零分。🔊🔊
    • This car can accelerate from nought to sixty in ten seconds.这辆车可以在十秒内从零加速到六十。
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  2. (also naught)
     [uncountable] (literary) used in particular phrases to mean ‘nothing’（用于某些短语）无，零
    • All our efforts have come to nought (= have not been successful).我们所付出的努力都已付诸东流。🔊🔊