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If you have something aplenty, you have a lot of it — often more than you need. It almost always comes after the noun: snacks aplenty, excuses aplenty, there were jobs aplenty. It has a slightly story-like, cheerful feel; ads and older writing like it. In everyday talk people more often put plenty of in front: plenty of time. Aplenty does not change for plural, and it is not a verb. You can hear it as an adjective after a noun, or as an adverb meaning “in large amounts.” Same idea either way: a lot, and then some.
多的是、充足有餘(多半放在名詞後面,和 plenty of 位置相反)。
組成From earlier a-plenty: the prefix a- plus plenty.
同家族的字
- plentythe same plenty: a large amount
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
aplentyadj/əˈplɛnti/
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In a generous or overlarge quantity.
- We have helpers aplenty but lack the skilled support.
- There are apples aplenty for all of us.
aplentyadv/əˈplɛnti/
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Enough or more than enough.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。