nil
n. 無,零; 零分
Nil means the same as zero. It is usually used to say what the score is in sports such as rugby or football.
They beat Argentina one-nil in the final.
他們在決賽中以 1 比 0 擊敗了阿根廷隊。
If you say that something is nil, you mean that it does not exist at all.
Their legal rights are virtually nil...
他們實際上毫無法律權利。
The heating in winter was almost nil.
冬季供暖設施幾乎毫無用處。
1. a quantity of no importance;
Profits zoomed from nil in 1981 to about 16 million last year.
利潤從1981年的零收益飆升至去年的1,600萬。
They gave an insipid opening performance in a nil-nil draw with Peru.
他們與秘魯隊的揭幕戰打得波瀾不驚,最終以0:0戰平。
"What was the result?" — "One-nil to Leeds."
“比賽結果怎樣?”——“利茲隊以1比0獲勝。”
They beat Argentina one-nil in the final.
他們在決賽中以1比0擊敗了阿根廷隊。
Scotland beat England one-nil at Wembley.
蘇格蘭隊在溫布利球場以1比0擊敗了英格蘭隊。