immensity

英 [ɪˈmensəti] 美 [ɪˈmensəti]

n.  巨大; 广大

复数:immensities

GRE

BNC.24240 / COCA.21339



牛津词典

noun

  1. 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

  1. ADJ-GRADED 广大的;巨大的
    If you describe something as immense, 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。

双语例句

  1. Provided that they are face to face with immensity, they smile.
    只要能与无极相对,他们就微笑。
  2. As a child he was awed by the immensity of the outer space.
    还是一个孩子的时候,他就对外太空的浩渺感到敬畏了。
  3. 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。
  4. Photographers showed either the beauty of the night sky or the immensity of light pollution from cities.
    摄影师们既展示了夜空的美,也揭露现今城市严重的光污染现象。
  5. Almost everyone was amazed at the beauty and immensity of the Grand Canyon.
    几乎每个人都惊讶于美而且壮观的无限峡谷。
  6. 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。
  7. 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。
  8. 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。
  9. We have no intuitive grasp of the immensity of time.
    我们对时间的无限没有什么直观的认识。
  10. It will be quite a revelation as you realize the immensity of the changes to self, as your old mindset is easily replaced by all that is pure and wholesome.
    当你们意识到自我变化的无限性时,当你们的旧的理念被所有纯粹的和健全的理念轻易地取代的时候,这将是一个了不起的启示。
  11. Over this immensity the sky curved like a frescoed ceiling, where flotillas of white and grey clouds floated on separate winds.
    天空在无垠的大地上盘旋曲折,仿佛是刻有壁画的天花板,密集的白云和灰云在空中阵风飘移。
  12. And from the point of view of limitation from which every one of you is looking, there cannot be an understanding of the immensity which is without limitation.
    而从局限的观点来看,你们每个人都在这样看,不可能理解那个没有局限的浩瀚。
  13. 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。
  14. 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;
  15. 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。
  16. 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。
  17. 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。
  18. And the center of immensity was my brain.
    无限的空间的中央就是我的大脑。
  19. My soul to-night loses itself in the silent heart of a tree standing alone among the whispers of immensity.
    今夜,我的灵魂迷失在一棵独立在浩瀚宇宙私语中的树的无言的心中。
  20. Still, he doesn't minimize the immensity of his task.
    他觉得他的任务还是很重大的。
  21. "I admire your immensity," whispers a bulrush.
    “我崇拜您的广阔无垠。”芦草轻声呢喃。
  22. Please, sir, let us find out whether our minds and hearts are really capable of receiving immensity, and not just the word.
    先生,请你让我们去发现我们的头脑和心灵是否真的能够接收到无限,而不仅仅是词语。
  23. 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。
  24. 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。
  25. We should cherish our unique homestead in the immensity universe.
    我们真该好好爱护浩瀚宇宙中这唯一的家园。
  26. 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。
  27. With a final realization of the immensity of her love and the piteous plight it had brought upon her. Her marriage to John is jeopardized Because of her secret, stuBBorn ardency for Tom.
    克莱终于理解到她那无边的爱和这悲惨的婚约给她带来的是什么。她暗中对汤姆坚定强烈的感情动摇了她和约翰的婚姻。
  28. 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。
  29. 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。
  30. 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。

英英释义

noun

  1. unusual largeness in size or extent or number

      Synonym:    enormousnessgrandnessgreatnessimmensenesssizeablenessvastnesswideness