| 英语单词 | ubiquitous |
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| 英美音标 | 英 [juː'bɪkwɪtəs] 美 [juː'bɪkwɪtəs] |
| 中文释义 | adj.到处存在的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) He could see the ubiquitous TV cameras. (2) Happiness is ubiquitous, may fall short of demand. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 他可以看到那些无处不在的电视摄像机。 (2) 幸福无处不在 |
| vocabulary简明 | It's everywhere! It's everywhere! When something seems like it's present in all places at the same time, reach for the adjective ubiquitous. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Cities like Singapore aim to cloak themselves in ubiquitous, free Wi-Fi in the next few years, The Wall Street Journal reported recently — meaning that those savvy Singaporeans will find a wireless connection everywhere they go. The word, comes from the Latin ubique, meaning — you guessed it — "everywhere." The usual pronunciation is "yoo-BIK-wih-tihs," but Joseph Heller must have had the older variant "ooh-BIK-wih-tihs" in mind when he wrote in Catch-22 that a character "padded through the shadows fruitlessly like an ubiquitous spook." |
| 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]无所不在的;随处可见的 If you describe something or someone as ubiquitous, you mean that they seem to be everywhere. [FORMAL 正式]
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