immensity

英 [ɪˈmensəti]

美 [ɪˈmensəti]

n.  巨大; 广大

复数：immensities　

GRE

BNC.24240 / COCA.21339

牛津词典

noun

• 巨大；广大
  the large size of sth
  1. the immensity of the universe
     宇宙的浩瀚无垠
  2. We were overwhelmed by the sheer immensity of the task.
     任务太重，把我们都吓倒了。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 广大的;巨大的
  If you describe something asimmense, you mean that it is extremely large or great.
  1. ...an immense cloud of smoke...
     大片的烟云
  2. With immense relief I stopped running.
     我长长地松了一口气，停止了奔跑。

英英释义

noun

• unusual largeness in size or extent or number
  Synonym:enormousnessgrandnessgreatnessimmensenesssizeablenessvastnesswideness

双语例句

• My illusion was to the immensity of time during which, by your own showing, you must have been done up in asphaltum.
  我是指您在柏油里的那段漫长的时间，从您的样子看，您一定是在柏油里浸过的。
• As a child he was awed by the immensity of the outer space.
  还是一个孩子的时候，他就对外太空的浩渺感到敬畏了。
• Let me but soar in that sky, in its lonely immensity.
  只让我在这天空中高飞，翱翔在静寂的无限空间里。
• Soon I felt engulfed in the immensity of the plain, lost in gazing upon it as one feels lost in gazing on sea.
  不久我就觉得被这一望无垠的平原所吞没，凝视着它就像凝视着大海那样，使人迷茫。
• They were rough-looking desperadoes, with sun-blackened faces, and an immensity of beard;
  他们是一伙外貌粗鲁的亡命之徒，个个面孔晒得黝黑，蓄着大胡子；
• Still, he doesn't minimize the immensity of his task.
  他觉得他的任务还是很重大的。
• Over this immensity the sky curved like a frescoed ceiling, where flotillas of white and grey clouds floated on separate winds.
  天空在无垠的大地上盘旋曲折，仿佛是刻有壁画的天花板，密集的白云和灰云在空中阵风飘移。
• My soul to-night loses itself in the silent heart of a tree standing alone among the whispers of immensity.
  今夜，我的灵魂迷失在一棵独立在浩瀚宇宙私语中的树的无言的心中。
• We have no intuitive grasp of the immensity of time.
  我们对时间的无限没有什么直观的认识。
• So I think there's a combination of recognizing and the immensity of what is nature and the universe.
  所以我认为应当使，对于自然和宇宙认识，与自然和宇宙的广袤融为一体。