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Measureless means so great that no number, no stick, no scale could take its size. Measureless sky, measureless love: it is the language of poems, hymns, and rather old books. In ordinary talk people say endless, huge, or instead. The word is honest about itself — without measure — and that is the whole idea. You can use it, but if you drop it into everyday chat it will sound as if you have opened a very old story.
無法衡量的(偏書面、詩文)
組成measure + -less (without). The -less ending is the old English piece that still makes homeless and endless.
同家族的字
- measureThe first half: this word means there is no measure that could hold it.
- immeasurableSame idea, and the word most people would choose today.
原始詞典資料1 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。
measurelessadj
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Not measured because it is so large that it is difficult or impossible to do so.
- In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea.
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。