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Amount Adv Superl 例:Most 例:What Things Largest Smoking 例:The

单词 most
音标
英[məʊst] 美[moʊst]
解释
adv.最,最多(大);much的最高级;非常,很;几乎;adj.many的最高级;最多的,最大的;大概的;大多数的,大部分的;n.最大限度;大部分;大多数人;
例句

QUANT
大多数;大部分
You use most to refer to the majority of a group of things or people or the largest part of something.
例:Most of the houses in the capital don't have piped water...首都的大部分房屋没有自来水。
例:By stopping smoking you are undoing most of the damage smoking has caused...通过戒烟可以消除吸烟造成的大部分危害。

ADJ-SUPERL
最多的;最大量的
You use the most to mean a larger amount than anyone or anything else, or the largest amount possible.
例:The President himself won the most votes...总统本人获得最多选票。
例:The skippers get the most money, and after them the cooks...船长拿到的钱最多,其次是厨师。

ADV-SUPERL
尤其;最为
You use most to indicate that something is true or happens to a greater degree or extent than anything else.
例:What she feared most was becoming like her mother...她最怕的就是变得像她妈妈那样。
例:What they wanted most from the president was a leader who at least would try to educate the country.他们对总统最大的期待是,至少他应尽力教诲国民。

ADV-SUPERL
最;极其
You use most to indicate that someone or something has a greater amount of a particular quality than most other things of its kind.
例:Her children had the best, most elaborate birthday parties in the neighborhood...她的孩子们的生日聚会在街坊四邻里是最好、最讲究的。
例:He was one of the most influential performers of modern jazz...他是现代爵士乐最有影响力的表演者之一。

ADV-SUPERL
最大限度地;最频繁地;最多地
If you do something the most, you do it to the greatest extent possible or with the greatest frequency.
例:What question are you asked the most?...你们被问及最多的问题是什么?
例:Inevitably those who suffer the most are the mothers and children...妇女和儿童必然是最遭罪的。

ADV-SUPERL
(在谈话中用于引起注意)最…,极其…
You use most in conversations when you want to draw someone's attention to something very interesting or important that you are about to say.
例:Most surprisingly, quite a few said they don't intend to vote at all...最让人吃惊的是,相当多的人说他们根本不打算参加投票。
例:Most interestingly, they are demanding that a national working party on crimes against women and children be established.最令人关注的是,他们要求针对侵害妇女和儿童的犯罪成立全国专案组。

ADV-SUPERL
十分;非常
You use most to emphasize an adjective or adverb.
例:I'll be most pleased to speak to them...能跟他们谈谈我会十分高兴。
例:I believe he is most painfully anxious about Diana.我相信他肯定非常担心黛安娜。

PHRASE
至多;最多
You use at most or at the most to say that a number or amount is the maximum that is possible and that the actual number or amount may be smaller.
例:Poach the pears in apple juice for perhaps ten minutes at most.把梨放入苹果汁中,最多煮10分钟左右。
例:...staying on at school for two extra years to study only three, or at the most four subjects...在学校再多呆两年学习仅仅三门、至多四门课程

PHRASE
尽量利用;充分利用
If you make the most of something, you get the maximum use or advantage from it.
例:Happiness is the ability to make the most of what you have...幸福就是有能力充分享受你拥有的一切。
例:Making the most of your hair means getting the cut and shape right.让头发达到最佳效果意味着要修剪得当,并选择合适的发型。
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