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adj.巨大的,辽阔的,大量的,巨额的

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vast为高中词汇   词频:1937

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名词:vastness 副词:vastly 形容词比较级:vaster 最高级:vastest

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vast


/vɑ:st; [US] væst; væst/
adj [usu attrib 通常作定语]
1 very large in area, size, quantity or degree; immense (面积、体积、数量或程度)巨大的
*a vast expanse of desert, water, snow, etc 浩瀚的沙漠、浩淼的水域、茫茫的积雪
* His business empire was truly vast. 他的企业规模极大.
* a vast crowd, throng, gathering, etc 大群的人.
2 (infml 口) very great 极大的
*a vast fortune, expense, profit, sum of money, etc 大量的财产、花费、利润、金钱等
* a vast difference 极大的差异.

vast


adj
[Date: 1500-1600; Language: Latin;Origin: vastus 'empty, desolate, very large']
extremely large
= huge
vast amounts/numbers/quantities/sums etc (of sth)
 The government will have to borrow vast amounts of money.
 The refugees come across the border in vast numbers .
vast areas/expanses/tracts etc (of sth)
 vast areas of rainforest
 In the past five years, there has been a vast improvement in graduation rates.
the vast majority (of sth)
used when you want to emphasize that something is true about almost all of a group of people or things
 The vast majority of books on the subject are complete rubbish.
>vastnessn[U]
1. But other suns, stars as the astronomers call them, are bound to have planets like our own, and as the number of stars in the universe is so vast, this possibility becomes virtual certainty.
    但是,其他的太阳,既天文学家所说的恒星,肯定会有像我们地球一样的行星。因为宇宙中恒星的数目极其庞大,所以存在着产生生命星球的这种可能性是肯定无疑的。

2. But there's a vast difference between the breeding programs as practiced by some groups (where the urge to breed certain types of people leads to efforts to destroy other types) and the much more harmless forms already practiced in democratic societi
    但是,某些团体实施的培育项目和在民主社会里已经实施的更为无害的培育方式,二者之间存在着天壤之别:前者为迫切地培育某类人而对其余的人进行毁灭,而后者,比如说律师,则是通过自由地选择与别的律师发生性关系得以实现。

3. This explosion is already freeing vast numbers of people from their traditional bondage to nature.
    这爆炸使得数目庞大的人们正在摆脱大自然的传统束缚,

4. That second choice no longer exists for the vast majority of Americans.
    对绝大多数美国人来说, 上述第二种选择已不复存在。

5. His business empire was truly vast.
    他的企业规模极大.

6. Vast areas of land have become desert.
    广大的地区均已变成沙漠.

7. So vast is the number of planets, that intelligent life is bound to be a natural part of the universe.
    但是行星的数目是那么庞大,有智力的生命必然是宇宙的自然组成部分。

8. This is vast, tedious, and formless.
    这片土地广阔、单调、杂乱。

9. It is also a land of vast tropical rain forests.
    还有大片热带雨林。

10. I was fourteen more getting the branches and the vast spreading head of it cut off.
    把它的树枝和巨伞状的树冠砍下来用去十四天。

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