- 1大量、眾多（正式用語）
A multitude is a very large number of people or things — it's a formal, slightly grand way of saying 'a lot' or 'a huge crowd.' You might read that a leader spoke to 'a multitude' of followers, or that someone faced 'a multitude of problems,' meaning many problems at once. It's more common in writing than casual speech — in daily talk, most people would just say 'a lot of' or 'tons of' instead.
From the word’s history
From Middle English multitude, via Old French from Latin multitūdō, from multus 'many' + -tūdō.
源自拉丁文 multitūdō，由 multus「多」加表示狀態的字尾組成。
組成from Latin multus (many) + -tude
同家族的字
- multipleshares the Latin root multus (many)
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
multitudenoun/ˈmʌltɪtjuːd/
- 1
A great amount or number, often of people; abundance, myriad, profusion.
- Do I contradict myself? / Very well then I contradict myself, / (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
- A torrential rain poured down from the floodgates of the angry heavens upon the bared heads of the assembled multitude which numbered at the lowest computation five hundred thousand persons.
- 2
The mass of ordinary people; the masses, the populace.
- Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil
- Along with its natural protectors and guardians, learning will be caſt into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a ſwiniſh multitude.
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