| 单词 | vast |
| 释义 | vast (once / 74 pages) adj If you’re in a boat out on the water and you can’t see any land, then the body of water you’re in is probably vast, or enormous. Things that are described as vast include oceans, seas, the heavens, deserts, and the surface of the moon. Even places that can't be seen or touched, like imaginations, are called vast, because of the endless ideas that come out of them. Someone with a vast imagination is very creative, and a place with a vast landscape is very large. Possibilities are vast, and so are the vocabularies of the world, filling vast volumes. WORD FAMILYvast: vaster, vastest, vastly, vastness+/vastness: vastnesses USAGE EXAMPLESToday, the lake is a vast expanse of salt flats. The New Yorker(Jan 02, 2017) Valles Calderas is home to vast grasslands and the remnants of one of North America’s few super volcanoes. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Oliver believes that the vast majority of police officers are sound and well intentioned. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) adj unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope the vast reaches of outer space "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"- W.R.Inge Syn Brobdingnagian, huge, immense big, large above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent |
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