喜樂美語
  1. 1巨大的、極大的

    Immense means extremely large — so large it can feel hard to take in: an immense country, an immense amount of work, an immense sky. It is a little stronger and a little more than huge, though people use it in speech too. The old Latin idea is 'not measured', the same family of thought as , but in today's English immense is just 'very, very big', not 'impossible to measure'. In informal British talk, though actually, immense can stretch into praise ('The gig was immense' = really good). That use is casual slang, not the meaning in a textbook or in careful writing. For class, keep it as a size word.

From the word’s history

From Old French immense, from Latin immensus, in- 'not' + mensus 'measured'.

源自拉丁文 immensus，in-「不」加 mensus「量過的」。

Wiktionary

組成From Latin immensus: in- (not) + mensus (measured) — so large it was 'not measured'.

同家族的字

  • incommensurablesame Latin idea of 'not measured'
  • measureLatin mensus means 'measured'

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

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immenseadj/ɪˈmɛns/

  • 1

    Huge, gigantic, very large.

    • Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
    • As Elon Musk returns his focus to his businesses, one of his most important companies just had another setback: A SpaceX Starship rocket exploded in an immense fireball Wednesday during a routine ground test.
  • 2

    Supremely good.

  • 3

    Major; to a great degree.

    • The gallant young Indian dandies at home on furlough—immense dandies these—chained and moustached—driving in tearing cabs […]

immensenoun/ɪˈmɛns/

  • 1

    Immense extent or expanse; immensity.

    • The half of Asia is my prison-house, Myriads of convicts lost in its Immense— I look with terror to my crowning day.
    • The events that took place in the immenses of the former USSR three years ago remind one about ancient rule of everyday life which is equally applicable both to daily routine and to politics: […]

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