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单词 immense
释义
immenseim‧mense /ɪˈmens/ ●●○ adjective Word Origin
WORD ORIGINimmense
Origin:
1400-1500 French, Latin immensus, from mensus ‘measured’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • 60 million years ago, the whole area was an immense desert.
  • an immense palace
  • Migrating birds cover immense distances every winter.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Also, that in spite of the immense price difference between various designs, the basic china was of exactly the same high standard.
  • Debates were abandoned in the 1964, 1968 and 1972 campaigns, largely because of candidates' concerns about their immense impact.
  • His general attitude is one of an untiring and immense courtesy and helpfulness.
  • It bears repeating that the photograph opens up an immense visual field.
  • It was only a dim personification: something vague and immense which with its motion brought about change and therefore was alive.
  • More than that, they were searching for a tiny trickle in an immense sea.
  • Perhaps we are born with an immense desire for knowledge, which can be obtained from books.
  • Which came first and why should there be such an immense variety?
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorhaving a big effect
· The city has a big problem with drugs.· If you think I'm coming with you, you're making a big mistake.
having a serious and important effect, especially on a lot of people, places, situations etc: · Heavy traffic is a major problem in most cities.· Think carefully before you decide on such a major undertaking.· Nuclear weapons are a major obstacle on the road to peace.
formal having a fairly large or important effect: · The recent slowdown in the US economy is likely to have a considerable impact on the rest of the world.· There was a considerable delay in the processing of our application.
use this to emphasize how much of an effect something has, especially a good effect: · Thanks. You've been a great help.· It would be of great assistance if customers could have the exact money ready.· I have great difficulty in reading without my glasses.
use this to emphasize that something is extremely big, important, or serious: · The city of Detroit has a huge crime problem.· Enormous changes are taking place in the way we communicate with each other.· The difference between living in the country and living in the city is immense.· His contribution to the team's success has been immense.
use this to emphasize how big, important, and often exciting an effect will be: · My new job will be a tremendous challenge.· Your advice has been a tremendous help to us.· It was a tremendous thrill, meeting her in person.
involving a lot of money or effort, or a lot of people or places: · Large-scale development has given new life to the inner city.· We need large-scale investment in the industry's future.on a large scale: · Developing countries will need help on a large scale for many years to come.
big places, areas, cities
· The nearest big town is twenty miles away.· Which is bigger, Tokyo or London?· We've got a big park fairly near our house.· Germany is much bigger than Britain.
use this about an area that is bigger than average size: · He lived alone on the edge of a large forest.· The farm buildings are spread over a large area.· Philip found himself in a large playground surrounded by high brick walls.
use this about a room, building, or car that has a lot of space inside: · The holiday villas are spacious, airy, and close to the sea.· Spacious and luxurious apartments are available to company employees.· The new Toyota saloon is both roomy and comfortable.· Their new apartment's very roomy.
spoken to be fairly big, especially big enough or bigger than you expect: · Braintree is a fair size but it isn't exactly a lively town.· I'm sure it would hold 500 cars. It's quite a fair size.
extremely big: · Archeologists have found the remains of a huge city in the middle of the desert.· The drawing room looked out over a huge lawn.· The farm is huge, stretching for over fifteen miles.· The distances between cities in Russia are simply enormous.
extremely large: · Migrating birds cover immense distances every winter.· 60 million years ago, the whole area was an immense desert.
use this about areas of land, deserts, distances etc that are extremely large and usually have very few people in them: · Vast areas of the Amazon rainforest have been destroyed.· Vast distances separate one isolated community from another.· a vast area of waste land
use this about houses or rooms that are extremely big and impressive: · a palatial residence with a fine collection of 18th century paintings· She lives in a palatial New York apartment.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=very great)· No one could resist his immense charm.
· Timothy was the heir to a vast fortune.
(=being very grateful)· He would like everyone to know about his immense gratitude for all their work.
(=a lot of hardship)· In the early years, the settlers faced great hardship.
· Steinbeck’s books have brought enormous pleasure to many people.
· the enormous popularity of Coca-Cola
(=very great)· He takes immense pride in his grandson.
(=very great)· The victory gave him immense satisfaction.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
· The infusion of desire that rushed her was so immense that she obeyed instantly, drawing her legs up to his hips.· It was so immense it did not twist like the others but in supreme majesty made its way down the turbulent chute.· The sky was so immense it swallowed the landscape, but the land swallowed up the provenance of the sky.
NOUN
· He had been given and had himself taken an immense amount out of that mining culture.· There is an immense amount of space, an intoxicating amount.· Once again an immense amount of credit had been earned by Alec Stewart.· One where the fuel weighed very little but delivered an immense amount of power.· They do an immense amount of work which is frequently unsung or unnoticed.· Childebert's dux Guntram Boso is said to have captured an immense amount of gold and silver when Gundovald fled from Avignon.· People who travel by rail still read an immense amount.· The Profitboss therefore puts an immense amount of work into determining his final position prior to the negotiation.
· This type of welfare can have immense benefit not only to the child but to the family as a whole.· Five myths about exercise Given the immense benefits of exercise, why do so many students try to avoid it?· Yet the schools in which this coming together of parent and teacher in the service of children occurred had immense benefits.
· About the immense difficulty that would undoubtedly be experienced by rescue teams.· Only great eagerness to learn, on the part of the people, will make it possible to overcome immense difficulties here.· Not badly at all, given the immense difficulty of restoring credibility to Labour as a party of government.
· But the achievement of all those goals will require an immense effort, and will not come without tears.· It required an immense effort from the Kop defence and midfield to contain the visitors.
· This demonstrates the immense importance of the detector in the overall performance of the zoned system.· Yet, if one really considers it, what is at stake is of immense importance, and can not be ignored.· In the Gulf war the United Nations played a part of immense importance.· It is however, of immense importance, so to speak, from another angle.· In either case, its initialling at Maastricht by Heads of Government on 10 December 1991 was an event of immense importance.· His success will be of immense importance to each and every Bank Official in the future.· Like the Council, we place immense importance on the outcome of last year's Earth Summit.
· That sense is still lacking on the World Wide Web, despite its immense popularity.
· Yet from that very still place immense power emerges.· The United States had towns and industries that were already flourishing; it also had immense powers of persuasion and assimilation.· He could sense an immense power enveloping the planet, and knew his death was only hours away.· This ensures that the pilot does not use the immense power of hydraulically operated controls to over-stress the structure of his aeroplane.· A magic-wielding character of immense power, the Great Enchanter lived for untold centuries.· Hearing them live, you realised that their voices have immense power as well as great beauty.· He gazed for a long time at the Prime Minister's empty chair, exulting in his own immense power.
· Mr Lamont declared the Tories stuck to their election pledges but he faces immense pressure to balance the books.· He is under immense pressure to freeze benefit increases in the coming year for the jobless, the infirm, and pensioners.· During the approaching round the time would come, inevitably, when he would have to play a shot under immense pressure.· Open space has come under immense pressures from developments such as housing and road building, or neglected due to lack of resources.· It's helping them to understand the immense pressures on them to stay for ever in the closet.
· He loves his county and has taken immense pride in the wholesale jubilation at the football team's success.
· The verdict came as an immense relief for Mr Major, who put his job on the line over the Maastricht Treaty.· At these words, immense relief flooded me as the burden of lies I had helped create lifted off my shoulders.· Male speaker Chiefly there's a feeling of immense relief.· To their immense relief and great pleasure it played to capacity audiences.· It was with immense relief that he drove in and killed the engine.
· I felt immense loss and immense satisfaction at the same time.· Yet it is very simple to prepare and offers immense satisfaction for those who follow some simple guidelines.
· Squids grow to an immense size.· The immense size and power of the Government of the United States ought not obscure its fundamental character.· Only fragments remain but these show the immense size of the building, over 400 feet in length.· At first, I thought it was because of his immense size.
· The mounting of school productions and active involvement in community or touring theatre initiatives are thus of immense value.· Hierarchy has added immense value to the world, and pundits who call for its demise are either fools or cynics.· These pilot studies are often of immense value in the design of more systematic and more extensive social surveys.· The work of Ptolemy thus took on immense value because of its utility.· Such dating methods are still of immense value today.· I thoroughly recommend it as of immense value to students at every level.· But still I feel that one more thing of immense value must have been taken away with that wagon.
· Which came first and why should there be such an immense variety?
· Hamilton was one of those unfortunate men who have inherited immense wealth but not a lot more.· His campaign machine, oiled by his immense wealth, was superbly efficient under the management of his brother, Robert.
 extremely large SYN  enormous:  People who travel by rail still read an immense amount. Regular visits from a social worker can be of immense value to old people living alone.
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