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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• "I admire your immensity," whispers a bulrush.
  “我崇拜您的广阔无垠。”芦草轻声呢喃。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。