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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。