- 1aB2
/kənˈsɪdərəbəl/
Fairly large in size, amount, or degree — big enough to matter.
相當大的 / 可觀的
核心畫面
You can think of it as 'big enough that you have to stop and take it into account' — not just large, but large in a way that matters. A considerable sum, a considerable delay: the size is real enough that you can't wave it away.
可以想成：大到你不得不停下來、認真把它算進去。不只是「大」，而是那種「大到會影響事情、不能隨手忽略」的大。a con…更多收起
可以想成：大到你不得不停下來、認真把它算進去。不只是「大」，而是那種「大到會影響事情、不能隨手忽略」的大。a considerable sum（一筆可觀的錢）、considerable delay（相當久的延誤），都是這種份量真實、閃不掉的大。原始詞典資料3 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。
considerableadj/kənˈsɪdəɹəbl̩/
- 1
Significant; worth considering.
- Soon I became a considerable figure in the music industry.
- 2
Large in amount.
- Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
- With the cutting out of the previous recovery times for electrification work, curtailment of station times and acceleration, considerable reductions have been made in the overall schedules.
considerablenoun/kənˈsɪdəɹəbl̩/
- 1
obsoleteA thing to be considered, consideration.
- Statistes and Politicians, unto whom Ragione di Stato, is the first considerable, as though it were their businesse to deceive people, as a Maxime, do hold, that truth is to be concealed from them […]
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。