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；
• A little garden in which to walk, and immensity in which to dream.
  一院小小的园地供他盘桓，一片浩阔的天空供他神游。
• The business is conducted on a scale of unprecedented immensity.
  这项业务是按前所未有的巨大规模来经营的。
• I m not scientist, and my methods of proof leave a little to be desired, or a lot to be desired, or an immensity.
  我不是专家，我的证明方法有一些，或许多，或巨大的待改进之处。
• 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。
• The infinity of God may also be viewed with reference to space, and is then called His immensity.
  上帝的无限性也可以从空间的角度来看，这称作祂的广大性。
• All the same, it is the immensity of the task, not the obscurity of the man, that should make the world nervous.
  都是一样的，它是任务，而不是默默无闻的人，应该让世界紧张浩瀚。
• Let me but soar in that sky, in its lonely immensity.
  只让我在这天空中高飞，翱翔在静寂的无限空间里。
• 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。
• 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。