英语单词 | excess |
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英美音标 | ['ekses] |
中文释义 | n.过度,剩于,无节制,超过,超额 adj.过度的,额外的 |
vocab简明 | Excess is too much of something, like big-time overindulgence. Eating to excess makes your stomach hurt, and spending to excess means you can't pay your credit card bills. |
vocab扩展 | Excess comes from the Latin word excessus meaning, "go out, going beyond the bounds of reason," like eating and spending in excess. (Not so reasonable.) Although it spends most of its time as a noun, it can also be an adjective to describe "more than is required or needed," like when excess water spills over the top of the bathtub, or those excess pounds spill over the top of your jeans. |
真题原句 | …… it has not occurred against the background of general commodity-price inflation and global excess demand. |
柯林斯星级 | ★★★☆☆ |
柯林斯解释 | The noun is pronounced /ɪk'ses/. The adjective is pronounced /'ekses/. 名词读作 /ɪk'ses/,形容词读作 /'ekses/。 1 [N-VAR 可变名词]过多;过量 An excess of something is a larger amount than is needed, allowed, or usual. [with supp]
2 [ADJ 形容词]过量的;过多的 Excess is used to describe amounts that are greater than what is needed, allowed, or usual. [ADJ n]
3 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]无节制;无度 Excess is behaviour that is unacceptable because it is considered too extreme or immoral. [also N in pl]
4 [ADJ 形容词]额外的;多余的 Excess is used to refer to additional amounts of money that need to be paid for services and activities that were not originally planned or taken into account. [ADJ n] [FORMAL 正式]
5 [N-COUNT 可数名词](保险中的)免赔额,承保人本人需承担的款额 The excess on an insurance policy is a sum of money which the insured person has to pay towards the cost of a claim. The insurance company pays the rest. [usu sing] [BRIT 英] [BUSINESS 商] [TECHNICAL 术语]
6 [PREP-PHRASE 短语介词]超过 In excess of means more than a particular amount. [PREP amount] [FORMAL 正式]
7 [PHRASE 短语]过分地;过度地 If you do something to excess, you do it too much. [PHR after v] [disapproval]
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来源 | 2002.3 |
Tags: 单词::2002, 单词::阅读词库
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