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Mass People Large N Sing Amount N Count 例:The Things

单词 mass
音标
英[mæs] 美[mæs]
解释
n.大量,大多;块,堆,团;[物理学]质量;弥撒曲;vt.& vi.(使)集中,聚集;adj.群众的;大规模的;整个的;集中的;vi.聚集起来;vt.使集合;
例句

N-SING
(聚成一体的)一团,一堆,一块
A mass of things is a large number of them grouped together.
例:On his desk is a mass of books and papers.他的书桌上有大堆的书籍和文件。

N-SING
大堆;许多;大量
A mass of something is a large amount of it.
例:She had a mass of auburn hair.她有一头浓密的棕发。

QUANT
大量;许多;一大堆
Masses of something means a great deal of it.
例:There's masses of work for her to do...她有一大堆的工作要做。
例:It has masses of flowers each year.它每年都开许多花。

ADJ
一大群的;大批的
Mass is used to describe something which involves or affects a very large number of people.
例:...ideas on combating mass unemployment...对付大量失业的点子
例:All the lights went off, and mass hysteria broke out.所有的灯都熄灭了,大家都变得歇斯底里起来。

N-COUNT
(尤指无固定形状的)块,堆,团
A mass of a solid substance, a liquid, or a gas is an amount of it, especially a large amount which has no definite shape.
例:...before it cools and sets into a solid mass...在它冷却成为固态之前
例:The fourteenth century cathedral was reduced to a mass of rubble.这座14世纪的大教堂变成了一堆瓦砾。

N-PLURAL
(与领导或受过高等教育的人相对的)普通老百姓,民众,平民大众
If you talk about the masses, you mean the ordinary people in society, in contrast to the leaders or the highly educated people.
例:His music is commercial. It is aimed at the masses...他的音乐走商业化路线,针对的是一般大众。
例:This issue has aroused much resentment among the masses.这个问题在民众中间引起了强烈的不满。

N-SING
(民众中的)大部分,大多数
The mass of people are most of the people in a country, society, or group.
例:The 1939-45 world war involved the mass of the population...1939至1945年间的世界大战使大多数民众卷入其中。
例:Schools allowed the mass of children to leave school at 16 with poor qualifications.学校允许大部分考试成绩差的学生16岁时毕业离校。

N-COUNT
(人)一大群,一大堆
A mass of people is a large crowd of them.
例:...masses of excited people clogged the streets.情绪激动的人群挤满了街道。
例:...a mass of grinning teenage faces.一张张少年的笑脸

V-ERG
(使)聚集;(使)集中;(使)集结
When people or things mass, or when you mass them, they gather together into a large crowd or group.
例:Shortly after the workers went on strike, police began to mass at the shipyard...工人们罢工后不久,警察就开始在船厂集结。
例:The clouds massed, whipped up by the wind...云卷云舒随风起。

N-SING
充满;布满
If you say that something is a mass of things, you mean that it is covered with them or full of them.
例:His body was a mass of sores...他遍体鳞伤。
例:In the spring, the meadow is a mass of daffodils.春天,草地上开满了黄水仙。

N-VAR
(物理学中的)质量
In physics, the mass of an object is the amount of physical matter that it has.
例:Astronomers know that Pluto and Triton have nearly the same size, mass, and density.天文学家知道冥王星与海卫一拥有几乎相同的体积、质量与密度。

N-VAR
弥撒(尤指天主教或东正教的圣餐仪式,以此纪念耶稣基督的最后的晚餐)
Mass is a Christian church ceremony, especially in a Roman Catholic or Orthodox church, during which people eat bread and drink wine in order to remember the last meal of Jesus Christ.
例:She attended a convent school and went to Mass each day.她上的是教会学校,每天都去做弥撒。

N-COUNT
弥撒曲
A Mass is a piece of music which uses the prayers from the Christian ceremony of Mass as the words that are sung.
变形
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