immensity

英 [ɪˈmensəti]

美 [ɪˈmensəti]

n.  巨大; 广大

复数：immensities　

GRE

BNC.24240 / COCA.21339

牛津词典

noun

• 巨大；广大
  the large size of sth
  1. the immensity of the universe
     宇宙的浩瀚无垠
  2. We were overwhelmed by the sheer immensity of the task.
     任务太重，把我们都吓倒了。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 广大的;巨大的
  If you describe something asimmense, you mean that it is extremely large or great.
  1. ...an immense cloud of smoke...
     大片的烟云
  2. With immense relief I stopped running.
     我长长地松了一口气，停止了奔跑。

英英释义

noun

• unusual largeness in size or extent or number
  Synonym:enormousnessgrandnessgreatnessimmensenesssizeablenessvastnesswideness

双语例句

• They were rough-looking desperadoes, with sun-blackened faces, and an immensity of beard;
  他们是一伙外貌粗鲁的亡命之徒，个个面孔晒得黝黑，蓄着大胡子；
• This is the mind's way of cushioning us against the immensity of the meaning of what we have heard, and allowing us to absorb it a little at a time, as we are able.
  这是我们的生理对付所听噩耗所做的缓冲，好让我们在遭受手段之内一点一点地接管这个毕竟。
• The vessel, trembling under the hurricane, is wholly absorbed in its own workings, the passengers and sailors do not even see the drowning man, his miserable head is but a speck amid the immensity of the waves.
  船呢，在飓风里飘荡不定，人们正忙于操作，海员和旅客，对那个落水的人，甚至连一眼也不再望了，他那个可怜的头只是沧海中的一粟而已。
• So I think there's a combination of recognizing and the immensity of what is nature and the universe.
  所以我认为应当使，对于自然和宇宙认识，与自然和宇宙的广袤融为一体。
• A long time ago, the individual was surrounded by nature so abundant that its immensity was amazing.
  很久以前，人类被广阔、富饶的大自然包围着。
• Provided that they are face to face with immensity, they smile.
  只要能与无极相对，他们就微笑。
• Soon I felt engulfed in the immensity of the plain, lost in gazing upon it as one feels lost in gazing on sea.
  不久我就觉得被这一望无垠的平原所吞没，凝视着它就像凝视着大海那样，使人迷茫。
• We cannot emphasize enough the immensity of this situation, both for you personally and for our planet at this time.
  我们无法用语言来强调这个事情对你个人和整个地球的重要性。
• My illusion was to the immensity of time during which, by your own showing, you must have been done up in asphaltum.
  我是指您在柏油里的那段漫长的时间，从您的样子看，您一定是在柏油里浸过的。
• In a few days they would be all over you, and you felt the immensity of life in them.
  几天后，它们会爬得你满身都是，你能从它们身上感受到生命的无限。