英语单词 | tremendous |
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英美音标 | 英 [trə'mendəs] 美 [trə'mendəs] |
中文释义 | adj.巨大的;惊人的 |
英语例句 | (1) He has a tremendous hold over his younger brother. (2) She does her work with tremendous vigour. (3) The discovery caused a tremendous commotion in the scientific world. (4) We got a tremendous surprise when she arrived. (5) He's a tremendous talker. |
中文例句 | (1) 他对他弟弟很有影响。 (2) 她工作起来干劲十足。 (3) 那项发现在科学界引起极大的震动。 (4) 她的到来使我们大吃一惊。 (5) 他是一个非常健谈的人。 |
vocabulary简明 | Tremendous means extraordinarily large in size, extent, amount, power, or degree. It can also mean really marvelous and fantastic — or really awful and terrible. |
vocabulary扩展 | We often use tremendous if something is super wonderful. If someone comes into your office and tells you you just won a big contract and are getting a huge bonus, you might exclaim, “Tremendous!” Tremendous comes from the Latin for "trembling," and is connected with fear. Something tremendous can be big in a terrifying way, like the tremendous noise of an approaching hurricane, or a tremendous tidal wave about to crash on the shore. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]巨大的;极大的;大量的 You use tremendous to emphasize how strong a feeling or quality is, or how large an amount is. [usu ADJ n] [emphasis] [INFORMAL 非正式]
tremendously
2 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]精彩的;出色的;极好的 You can describe someone or something as tremendous when you think they are very good or very impressive. [INFORMAL 非正式]
tremendously
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