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Hold one picture: something that takes up a lot of space, or covers a lot — big in size, amount, or number. A large house, a large crowd. From this 'big, wide-reaching' image come two paths: when something is 'at large' it has spread out into the open and roams free (an escaped prisoner; 'the public at large' = the whole wide group of people); and when you talk about 'the larger picture' or 'in large part', you zoom out to the big, general view rather than the small details.

可以想成：佔了很多空間、或涵蓋很廣的東西——大小、數量、數目都很大。一棟大房子、一大群人。從這個「又大又涵蓋很廣」的…更多收起可以想成：佔了很多空間、或涵蓋很廣的東西——大小、數量、數目都很大。一棟大房子、一大群人。從這個「又大又涵蓋很廣」的畫面分出兩條路：一是某樣東西 at large，散到了開闊處、自由地到處跑（在逃的犯人；the public at large＝廣大的全體民眾）；二是講 the larger picture 或 in large part 時，把鏡頭往後拉，看的是大方向、整體，而不是小細節。

原始詞典資料15 筆記錄

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Largename

  • 1

    A surname.

largeadj/lɑːd͡ʒ/

  • 1

    Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.

    • Russia is a large country. The fruit-fly has large eyes for its body size. He has a large collection of stamps.
    • We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.
  • 2

    businessclothingfashionThat is large (the manufactured size).

  • 3

    obsoleteAbundant; ample.

    • We have yet large day.
    • He prefers teachers with large experience, but often has positions for beginners who have had a thorough preparation.
  • 4

    archaicFull in statement; diffuse; profuse.

    • And where hit please yow to saye that I haue holden my lady youre Quene yeres and wynters / vnto that I shal euer make a large ansuer "And where it please you to say that I have holden my lady your queen years and winters, unto that I shall ever make a large answer"
    • I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education.
  • 5

    obsoleteFree; unencumbered.

    • Of burdens all he set the Paynims large.
  • 6

    obsoleteUnrestrained by decorum; said of language.

    • Some large jests he will make.
  • 7

    nauticaltransportCrossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter.

largenoun/lɑːd͡ʒ/

  • 1

    obsoleteentertainmentlifestylemusicAn old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves.

  • 2

    obsoleteLiberality, generosity.

  • 3

    slangA thousand dollars/pounds.

    • Getting a car tricked out like that will cost you 50 large.
    • "We'll call you anything we want," Dave said. "You owe us eighty-five large, Ace, and what we've got for collateral on that money so far is a shitload of Arm & Hammer baking soda worth about a buck-fifty. We'll call you Hubert J. Motherfucker if we want to."
  • 4

    businessclothingfashionOne of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured, larger than a medium.

  • 5

    businessclothingfashionAn item labelled or denoted as being that size.

    • One small coffee and two larges, please.
  • 6

    One who fits an item of that size.

largeadv/lɑːd͡ʒ/

  • 1

    nauticaltransportBefore the wind.

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。