percent

パーセント

数の後に置き、百のうちどれだけの量や割合かを表す。

やさしい英語で： Out of every hundred; used after a number to show an amount or share.

• Tickets are ten percent cheaper today.
• Sales rose by five percent.
• Only twenty percent of students agreed.

類義語： per hundred

よく使う表現： ten percent off, fifty percent more, twenty percent less

パーセント

全体を百等分したうちの一つ。記号は％。

やさしい英語で： One part out of a hundred, written as the symbol %.

• One percent of a hundred is one.
• The bank charges interest of six percent.
• What percent of the land is forest?

使い方： number + percent of something (Thirty percent of the class passed the test.)

よく使う表現： one percent, ten percent, percent of something