The former outnumber the latter by about a hundred to one.
前者在数量上超过后者,比率约为100:1.
📖 牛津释义
outnumber
v[Tn esp passive 尤用於被动语态]
be more in number than (sb)在数量上超过(某人)
The demonstrators were outnumbered by the police. 示威者没有警方的人数多.
We were outnumbered two to one by the enemy, ie There were twice as many of them. 我们的人数只及敌人的一半.
This has been a great learning experience for us, Marilyn.
这对我们是一次很好的学习经验, Marilyn。
To pay a person in his own way.
以其人之道还治其人之身。
Alf did this for over two years and his fellow dustmen kept his secret Alf's wife has never discovered that she married a dustman and she never will, for Alf has just found another job.