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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Still, he doesn't minimize the immensity of his task.
  他觉得他的任务还是很重大的。
• 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。
• And the center of immensity was my brain.
  无限的空间的中央就是我的大脑。
• 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。
• 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。
• Provided that they are face to face with immensity, they smile.
  只要能与无极相对，他们就微笑。
• 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。