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

• 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。
• And the center of immensity was my brain.
  无限的空间的中央就是我的大脑。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。