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单词 plethora
释义
plethorapleth‧o‧ra /ˈpleθərə/ noun Word Origin
WORD ORIGINplethora
Origin:
1500-1600 Medieval Latin, Greek, ‘fullness’, from plethein ‘to be full’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • And the plethora of morning news and business shows can make certain stories round-the-clock assignments.
  • Despite a plethora of changes, the new models are just £295 more than the cars they replace.
  • Set up a plethora of new commissions and executive agencies.
  • The plethora of published research is testimony to this.
  • The endemic hypochondria of the Texans was milked by a plethora of expensive clinics which most of them attended.
  • Whatever the reason, the plethora of choices has increased the brutally competitive environment for fast-food restaurants in the past year.
  • Why is there such a plethora of exotic phenomena at the centre, and how can they be explained?
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • The city faces a plethora of problems.
  • Despite a plethora of changes, the new models are just £295 more than the cars they replace.
  • Festivals in his honour are marked by a plethora of flowers, and the lusciously scented frangipani is held sacred to him.
  • He knows a plethora of extraneous facts about the arctic and the tropics.
  • In the wake of the Wall Street Crash Congress enacted a plethora of legislation aimed at ensuring fair and orderly markets.
  • Inside, the church is the shape of the Latin cross, with a plethora of side chapels.
  • Other Republicans foresee a period of intensified investigation into activities of the Clintons and their associates ending with a plethora of indictments.
  • The endemic hypochondria of the Texans was milked by a plethora of expensive clinics which most of them attended.
  • There is, to put it briefly, a plethora of offerings to which the term theory has been applied in sociology.
a plethora of something formal a very large number of something, usually more than you need:  a plethora of suggestions
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