单词 | vastly |
释义 | vastlyvast‧ly /ˈvɑːstli $ ˈvæstli/ ●○○ adverb Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► vastly exaggerated very much: This book is vastly superior to his last one. vastly different opinions (=by a very large amount)· Bates told the children vastly exaggerated stories of his wartime exploits. ► vastly/grossly inferior (=by a very great amount)· The quality of service was vastly inferior in that other restaurant. ► be grossly/vastly/hugely inflated The numbers of people involved have been grossly inflated by the media. ► grossly/vastly/hugely inflated company directors on grossly inflated salaries ► vastly/greatly/heavily outnumber Men in prison vastly outnumber women. ► massively/grossly/vastly etc overestimate something· Western countries massively overestimated the extent of the problem. ► vastly overrated a vastly overrated film ► far/vastly/greatly superior· They soon realized that the opposing team’s players were far superior to their own. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► different· Yet despite the nation's visionaries, reality is vastly different.· But they were in a quandary about how to blend their vastly different tastes.· In 20 minutes by air-conditioned car or coach, you will be in an old and vastly different world.· It is not difficult confuse the two, but they are vastly different.· On the futuristic stories, however, things were vastly different.· The Olympic world is vastly different now.· Let us note at the outset that Bourdieu's anti-structuralism is vastly different from other such critiques.· Incidentally, it also shows us how vastly different is esoteric from ordinary psychology. ► great· The potential of joy is vastly greater than our capacity to absorb it all.· But vastly greater numbers of smaller bodies accompany the larger and more easily discovered ones.· A similar scholarly consensus exists over the Nationalists' vastly greater success in dealing with internal factionalism.· The sums involved in the Sagawa scandal were vastly greater than those paid out during the Recruit Cosmos case.· Very quickly, however, such preoccupations were swallowed up in vastly greater ones.· And if ion-winds can also be detected from the stars, their vastly greater distances should give even higher magnifications. ► improved· Aqib Javed, a vastly improved bowler in the last year, was perfect as a back-up to the two great bowlers.· Blumlein's revolutionary technique vastly improved quality and simplified production, and was adopted internationally.· With our vastly improved materials, adhesives and security technology, perhaps the new clock has an even greater chance of survival?· It would make possible the provision of vastly improved public services, while reducing dependency upon them.· If they feel that taxation is unfair, intelligent people take advantage of vastly improved financial communication and look about the world. ► increased· They would be at risk from the vastly increased number of cars and heavy lorries expected to use the new tunnel.· On the whole, these results are more reliable than those of previous investigations due to the vastly increased sample size.· A vastly increased supply of turf and logs was required for the many fires the occasion demanded.· In spite of the vastly increased volume of traffic, fewer people are now killed on our roads than at any time since 1948.· This is the key to creating the vastly increased capacity to train so urgently needed without dramatically expanding the available human resources.· We face the vastly increased traffic projections for the twenty-first century with roads adequate to deal with the conditions of the nineteenth. ► inferior· We find him in a disgusting attitude of respect towards predecessors whose intellect is vastly inferior to his own. ► superior· Even without him, the force against which Rodrigo now found himself ranged was vastly superior to his own.· Mariner 9, with its vastly superior vantage point in orbit around Mars, saw it all.· These three actions are vastly superior to breaking a habit by will-power alone.· The difference here is that the aesthetic appearance of the output will be vastly superior to that of a word processor.· Yet the two sets of Lieder are vastly superior as music.· But their skills are still vastly superior to those of their counterparts elsewhere in the world.· For two months a vastly superior army refused serious action against the rebels and finally backed them. VERB► expand· The redshank has vastly expanded its breeding range in Shetland in the last thirty years or so.· And satellite technology has vastly expanded long-distance broadcast communications, especially television.· It was rather a huge success in sociopolitical terms, in vastly expanding the range of the shareholding classes. ► improve· Recently signed to Gift records, Newspeak are another vastly improved Yorkshire mob.· Communication, management, and supervisory skills have vastly improved.· The most important aspect, to my mind, is that finished work is often vastly improved and colour harmony easily achieved.· Medical facilities, too, have vastly improved and are more widely available.· The military-technical qualifications of GlavPU officers has vastly improved since the 1950s.· These machines, the vehicles of the Al philosophy, will be vastly improved in their technical capabilities.· He has turned out to be the nerve center of the vastly improved defense. ► increase· The Act has also vastly increased the powers of Immigration Officers.· These rules vastly increased the number of discrimination cases that could be won or settled favorably out of court.· The dollar weight of debts vastly increased, forcing bankruptcies.· During the spring the Sol becomes a torrent as melt waters vastly increase the volume of water.· The result is that the rewards of sport have vastly increased.· That was written in 1946, since when pressure on the curriculum has vastly increased.· Today, despite vastly increased global trade, they earn 1.1 %. ► outnumber· Yet in the long run, diet failures vastly outnumber the successes.· Because school people vastly outnumber business-people in most school-to-work partnerships, the tendency is for educators to take over.· Thinly veiled portraits of actual people in fiction vastly outnumber this type of unlucky strike.· Vastly outnumbered but taking a more defined shape were the black Methodists. ► reduce· The population of Liverpool has vastly reduced since the so-called Labour party policy took over our great city.· Captivity vastly reduces the life span of whales.· And the opportunity for error and evasion would be vastly reduced. |
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