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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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；
• "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。
• 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。
• 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。