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基本释义

adj.
广阔的; 巨大的; 大量的; 巨额的

词性变化

实用例句

a vast area of forest

莽莽苍苍的森林

牛津词典

a vast crowd

一大群人

牛津词典

a vast amount of information

大量信息

牛津词典

At dusk bats appear in vast numbers .

蝙蝠于傍晚时分大批出现。

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His business empire was vast.

他的企业规模庞大。

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In the vast majority of cases, this should not be a problem.

在绝大多数情况下,这应该不成问题。

牛津词典

[不可数名词, 可数名词]the vastness of space

太空的浩瀚无垠

牛津词典

...Afrikaner farmers who own vast stretches of land...

拥有广袤土地的南非白人农场主

The vast majority of the eggs would be cracked.

绝大部分鸡蛋都会被打碎。

The domain is vast.

领域广大.

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A vast expanse of golden crops lay before us.

我们眼前展现出一大片金黄色的庄稼.

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The fields covered with snow became a vast expanse of whiteness stretching to infinity.

田野被大雪覆盖,白茫茫的一眼望不到边.

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His behavior is injurious to the interests of the vast majority of people.

他的行为有损于大多数人民的利益.

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Alexander held dominion over a vast area.

亚历山大曾统治过辽阔的地域.

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Ahead lay a vast expanse of wheat.

前面是一大片小麦.

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It is a vast expanse of desert.

那是一片辽阔的沙漠.

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It's vast and hazy in the distance.

远处一片迷茫

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The vast majority of the workers here are Protestants.

这里的工人绝大多是新教徒.

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China has a vast territory and a large population.

中国地域辽阔,人口众多

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The vast masses there have become involved in the health campaign.

那里的广大群众都参加了卫生运动.

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A vast panorama of the valley lay before us.

山谷的广阔全景展现在我们面前.

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We have a vast expanse of cultivated land.

我们有大片的耕地.

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An individual is only a tiny grain in the vast sea; it is the masses of people that are the boundless ocean.

个人只是沧海的一粟, 人民群众才是无垠的大海.

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The snowstorm swept the vast expanse of grassland.

暴风雪袭击了辽阔的草原.

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Modernization of a vast country like China cannot be done at one go.

在中国这样一个幅员广大的国家里,要实现四个现代化,不可能一蹴而就.

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a vast array of bottles of different shapes and sizes

一大批形状大小不一的瓶子

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Urban development has led to the ruination of vast areas of countryside.

城市发展导致大片的乡村遭到毁坏。

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vast tracts of forest

大片大片的森林

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真题例句

And although their memories are vast, they are still likely to suffer from false memories.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

We are at a point where in much of the developed world the vast majority of young people grew up playing video games, and an increasingly high percentage of adults play these video games too, Werbach says.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

And Record and Austin are worried not just about the models themselves, but about the vast number of girls and women their images influence.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Rather, it is to recognize that in America's vast criminal justice system, second chances are crucial.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

In all, more than 45,000 laws and rules serve to exclude vast numbers of people from fully participating in American life.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Vast areas of the United States are off-limits to oil exploration and production in the name of environmental protection.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

Some businesses will benefit but the vast bulk of the savings will be captured by workers, not their employers.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

There are many examples of the vast harm that is caused when individuals forget or ignore the effect their dishonesty can have.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

Fortunately, there are a vast number of relatively simple changes that can green older homes, from historic ones like Lincoln's Cottage to your own postwar home.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

"We are at a point where in much of the developed world the vast majority of young people grew up playing video games, and an increasingly high percentage of adults play these video games too," Werbach says.

2016年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

And although their memories are vast, they are still likely to suffer from "false memories".

2017年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

However, these beasts of the sea do display a vast range of highly refined behaviors that appear to be driving their genetic development.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a vast four-year global study which reported its initial conclusions earlier this year, found reasons to believe that managing ecosystems sustainably—working with nature rather than against it—might be less profitable in the short term, but certainly brings long-term rewards.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

And at the vast majority of places, it is simply not a big variable in the college's decision-making process.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

The Home Depot approach to craftsmanship - simplify it, dumb it down, hire a contractor - is one signal that mastering tools and working with one's hands is receding in America as a hobby, as a valued skill, as a cultural influence that shaped thinking and behavior in vast sections of the country.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Democrats and Republicans can and will take sides on a number of issues, but a more crucial concern is that both are basing major policy decisions on guesstimates rather than looking at the vast wealth of raw data with a critical eye and an open mind

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Smith's book serves as an excellent introduction to a vast subject, and will suggest plenty of further

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

However, scientists say that the scale of CO2 emissions will require vast amounts of long-term storage.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

When they go on tour, they do a vast number of concerts, singing in smoky places.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

But more recently, companies have begun to plan more affordable " suborbital " flights — brief ventures just to the edge of space's vast darkness.

2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

One was created in the Ross Sea in 2016, another reserve is being proposed in a vast area of the Weddell Sea, and a third sanctuary is under consideration in the area west of the Antarctic Peninsula—a key krill fishing area.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

The millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a vast four-year global study which reported its initial conclusions earlier this year, found reasons to believe that managing ecosystems sustainably—working with nature rather than against it—might be less profitable

2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

The reason for constructing the buildings from wood is probably that ideally proportioned straight and slender timber was available in large quantities in Scandinavia's vast pine forests.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

If humans were truly at home under the light of the moon and stars,we would go in darkness happily,the midnight world as visible to us as it is to the vast number of nocturnal species on this planet.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The eight-part series, save money: good food, follows in the footsteps of itv's save money: good health, which gave viewers advice on how to get value from the vast range of health products on the market.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

These are volcanoes so explosive that they burst open in a single big crack, leaving behind a vast hole, the caldera.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Yet only one of his books is now in print, and his vast body of writings on music is unknown save to specialists.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

The researchers mapped not only the city’s vast and ornate ceremonial areas, but also hundreds of simpler apartment complexes where common people lived.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

They should start by discarding California’s lame argument that exploring the contents of a smart phone — a vast storehouse of digital information — is similar to, say, rifling through a suspect’s purse.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

The researchers mapped not only the city's vast and ornate ceremonial areas, but also hundreds of simpler apartment complexes where common people lived.

2014年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

They should start by discarding California's lame argument that exploring the contents of a smart phone—a vast storehouse of digital information—is similar to, say, going through a suspect's purse.

2015年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

This isn't surprising, considering the basic mandatory high school curriculum leaves students with a poor understanding of the vast academic possibilities that await them in college.

2017年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Adjective
  • 1. unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope;

    "huge government spending"

    "huge country estates"

    "huge popular demand for higher education"

    "a huge wave"

    "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains"

    "immense numbers of birds"

    "at vast (or immense) expense"

    "the vast reaches of outer space"

    "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"- W.R.Inge

同义词辨析

huge, enormous, immense, giant, gigantic, colossal, vast, massive, tremendous

这些形容词均有"巨大的,庞大的"之意。

  • huge: 含义广,强调体积或容积的庞大。也可用于引申意义。
  • enormous: 指体积、数量或程度远远超过一般标准。
  • immense: 正式用词,侧重空间的广阔,也指面积或分量的巨大。
  • giant: 非正式用词,多为褒义。指如巨人般的庞大体积。
  • gigantic: 指面积或体积的巨大,但多用于引申意义。
  • colossal: 侧重尺寸、规模和体积的无比巨大。
  • vast: 多指空间、面积、范围的巨大,不涉及重量。
  • massive: 指大的体积、数量和重量,侧重庞大而笨重。
  • tremendous: 指某物很大,大得惊人;也可用作引申意义。

同义词

反义词

adj.广阔的;巨大的

narrow

其他释义

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