| 单词 | ubiquitous |
| 释义 | ubiquitous (once / 3076 pages) adj It's everywhere! It's everywhere! When something seems like it's present in all places at the same time, reach for the adjective ubiquitous. "Cities like Singapore aim to cloak themselves in ubiquitous, free Wi-Fi in the next few years," The Wall Street Journal reported recently — meaning that those savvy Singaporeans will find a wireless connection everywhere they go. The word, comes from the Latin ubique, meaning — you guessed it — "everywhere." The usual pronunciation is "yoo-BIK-wih-tihs," but Joseph Heller must have had the older variant "ooh-BIK-wih-tihs" in mind when he wrote in Catch-22 that a character "padded through the shadows fruitlessly like an ubiquitous spook." WORD FAMILYubiquitous: ubiquitously, ubiquitousness+/ubiquity: ubiquities, ubiquitous USAGE EXAMPLESAs a ubiquitous, cross-border commons, it often defies notions of state sovereignty. Economist(Nov 03, 2016) The second ugly event is the continuation of the ubiquitous misinformation on climate change. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) Once this technology is commonplace and driverless cars are ubiquitous, those numbers will shrink to a tiny fraction of what they are today. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) adj being present everywhere at once Syn omnipresent present being or existing in a specified place |
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