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An expanse is a very large, open stretch of something — sea, sky, desert, ice, . You look out and there is just more of it. It is a quiet, descriptive word, a little literary. People say 'a wide expanse of water' or 'the vast expanse of the sky'. You would not usually call a crowded street an expanse; the word wants space and emptiness, not clutter. Though actually, writers sometimes stretch it to 'an expanse of time' or 'an expanse of silence', using the same picture of something spreading out with nothing in the way.
遼闊的一片（海、天空、大地）
組成From Latin expansum, from expandō ('I spread out'). Same family as expand.
同家族的字
- expandthe verb: to spread or grow larger
- expansionthe noun for growing larger
- expandableable to be made larger, from the same verb
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。
expansenoun/ɪkˈspæns/
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A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky, or land.
- That large room had always awed Ivor: even as a child he had never wanted to play in it, for all that it was so limitless, the parquet floor so vast and shiny and unencumbered, the windows so wide and light with the fairy expanse of Kensington Gardens.
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An amount of spread or stretch.
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。