profundity

英 [prəˈfʌndəti]

美 [prəˈfʌndəti]

n.  (理解或处理问题的)深刻性，彻底性; 巨大; 严重; 强大; 深奥的话; 意味深长的话

复数：profundities　

BNC.33948 / COCA.26863

牛津词典

noun

• （理解或处理问题的）深刻性，彻底性
  the quality of understanding or dealing with a subject at a very serious level
  1. He lacked profundity and analytical precision.
     他缺乏深度和分析的精确性。
• 巨大；严重；强大
  the quality of being very great, serious or powerful
  1. the profundity of her misery
     她的苦难之深
• 深奥的话；意味深长的话
  something that sb says that shows great understanding
  1. His profundities were lost on the young audience.
     他语重心长，但年轻的听众却没有领会。

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 深奥；深刻
  Profundityis great intellectual depth and understanding.
  1. The profundity of this book is achieved with breathtaking lightness.
     这本书极为深入浅出。
• N-UNCOUNT （情感、经历、变化等的）深厚，深刻，深切
  If you refer to theprofundity ofa feeling, experience, or change, you mean that it is deep, powerful, or serious.
  1. ...the profundity of the structural problems besetting the country.
     困扰这个国家的严重的结构性问题
• N-COUNT 深刻的话语；深奥的话语
  Aprofundityis a remark that shows great intellectual depth and understanding.
  1. His work is full of profundities and asides concerning the human condition.
     他的作品充满了有关人类境况的深邃见解和话外音。

英英释义

noun

• intellectual depth
  1. the depth of my feeling
  2. the profoundness of the silence
  Synonym:profoundness
• the quality of being physically deep
  1. the profundity of the mine was almost a mile
  Synonym:deepnessprofoundness
• the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
  Synonym:astutenessprofoundnessdepthdeepness
• wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound
  1. the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs
  Synonym:reconditenessabstrusenessabstrusityprofoundness

双语例句

• "Masses interest does not have bagatelle" the philosophic theory sex that this one axiom has strong shock force and profundity.
  这一至理名言具有强烈的震撼力和深刻的哲理性。
• But with quick development of economy, city underlying surface is changing profundity, too.
  城市下垫面是人类赖以生存和发展的基础，同时也是城市土地利用的总和。
• Containing contradiction in unity, blending profundity in plainness& on the images in Frost's poems
  寓矛盾与统一，融深刻于平淡&谈弗氏诗歌的意象
• Vast stretches of oceans appeal to us much the rather because their profundity is difficult of access.
  辽阔的海洋因其深奥难以理解才更引起我们的浓厚兴趣。
• This is also a reason we regret the lack of profundity and incisiveness in Hu Shi's articles while appreciating his crystal clarity and eloquence.
  这也是我们在欣赏胡适文章之清朗、畅达的同时，对其不够深邃、尖锐略表遗憾的缘故。
• The speed and profundity of the changes around us.
  我们周围变化的迅速和深刻。
• This novel reveals the humanity's complexity and profundity, because it implies the love and resentment, furthermore, the humanity has impacted on the temporal social culture.
  本文揭示了人性的复杂与深刻，在于它所蕴含的爱与恨，而左右着人性的又是当时的社会文明。
• The phenomenon of outsourcing is not appearing by accident, and it has profundity causes.
  资源外包的产生绝不是偶然的，而是具有深刻的动因。
• In theory Chinese virtues education or ethical education of Confucianism has features of profundity, inclusion and system consistency, which also meets our common knowledge and experience.
  中华美德教育或儒家伦理教育在理论上具有深刻性、涵盖性与圆融一致性，且符合人的常识经验。
• His work is full of profundities and asides concerning the human condition.
  他的作品充满了有关人类境况的深邃见解和话外音。