percent
adverb (also per cent) uk/pəˈsent/ us/pɚˈsent/
B1 百分之…（符号为%）
for or out of every 100, shown by the symbol %
You got 20 percent of the answers right - that means one in every five. 你20%的答案是对的，也就是说每5个中有1个是对的。
Only 40 percent of people bothered to vote in the election. 只有40%的人肯花时间参加了选举投票。
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- Something like 60 percent of all married men will have an affair at some point in their marriage.
- Sales are up by 36 percent. How about that?
- They offer a 10 percent discount on rail travel for students.
- Across the country, exam results have improved by an average of eight percent.
- I've managed to negotiate a five percent pay increase with my boss.