by the thousand

基本解释

Letters poured in by the thousand and almost all were indignant at the treatment of Mr Radulovich.
上千封的信件如潮水一般湧入，幾乎每個人都對拉杜洛維奇先生的遭遇感到氣惱。
Should he wish it, a Mughal ruler need only lift his finger to lay waste his enemies by the thousand.
莫臥兒的領袖衹需要擡起他的手指便能讓他的敵人灰飛菸滅。
As China’s exporters go bust by the thousand, industries from textiles to steel have been promised handouts and rebates.
由於中國有數以千計的出口企業走曏倒閉，從紡織業到鋼鉄業都得到了資助和退稅的承諾。

The report estimates that there may be an additional one hundred million people with asthma by the year two thousand twenty-five.
The plan now is to have about a thousand and nine hundred something civilian people on the ground in Afghnastan by New Years Day which is about three times of we had last year.
現在的計劃是說我們將要派大概1900平民到阿富汗,在新年之前,這個數量是去年的三倍之多。
普林斯頓公開課 - 國際座談會課程節選
That's 1800 times faster. But the real one that blows me away is, it has 2 gig of memory inside of it. That's 12 thousand times more memory. Oh, and by the way?
比以前快了1800倍,但是真讓我感到喫驚的是,它有2G的內存，這是以前的12000倍,順便說一句我的？
麻省理工公開課 - 計算機科學及編程導論課程節選

The arrival of Polish plumbers, even by the thousand, could only have been a blessing.
ECONOMIST: EU membership has worked magic in central Europe