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fraction

How is it used?

fraction指“整體的某部份”，而這部份在整體所佔的份量很小。

• With a computer you could have done this in a fraction of the time.

如果用電腦的話，你原來可用很短時間完成這項工作。

• By the end of the day we had completed no more than a fraction of the work.

在這天結束之時，我們只完成了工作的一小部份。

• A fraction of the money is spent on administration, but most of it goes directly to the charity.

這筆錢只有很少一部份用於行政管理，絕大部份直接用於慈善事業。

• Only a fraction of the space is used for storage.

只有很小空間用於儲存。

• These new light bulbs use a fraction of the power that the old ones used.

這些新燈泡的用電量，只佔以前舊燈泡用電量的很小部份。