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Immense Concept Large Describe Word Immensity I'mens Adj.广大的,巨大的

英语单词 immense
英美音标 [i'mens]
中文释义 adj.广大的,巨大的
vocab简明 Immense means very large in size, amount, or degree. You might describe the ocean as immense, or your homework load, or the slice of cake your brother took, leaving you a tiny sliver.
vocab扩展 This word has an immense number of near synonyms: huge, great, enormous, vast, gigantic, colossal, mammoth, copious, tremendous are a few of the more common ones. If you're having immense difficulty deciding which word to use, just plain "very big" might do.
真题原句 Thus, the anthropological concept of “culture”, like the concept of “set” in mathematics, is an abstract concept which makes possible immense amounts of concrete research and understanding.
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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]广大的;巨大的 If you describe something as immense, you mean that it is extremely large or great.
  [usu ADJ n]
  • ...an immense cloud of smoke...

    大片的烟云

  • With immense relief I stopped running.

    我长长地松了一口气,停止了奔跑。

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  • The immensity of the universe is difficult to grasp.

    宇宙的浩瀚难以捉摸。

来源 2003.6

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