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A very large number of something, too many to easily count. It can be used as a noun ("a myriad of problems") or right before a noun with no "of" ("myriad problems") — both are completely normal in modern English.
無數的;大量的
組成From Greek "myrioi," originally meaning "ten thousand," which came to just mean "a huge number."
原始詞典資料5 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。
myriadnoun/ˈmɪɹi.æd/
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historicalTen thousand; 10,000
- 2
historicalTen thousand; 10,000
- 3
A countless number or multitude (of specified things)
- Earth hosts a myriad of animals.
- O Myriads of immortal Spirits, O Powers / Matchleſs, but with th' Almighty, and that ſtrife / Was not inglorious, though th' event was dire,
myriadadj/ˈmɪɹi.æd/
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Multifaceted, having innumerable elements.
- one night he would be singing at the barred window and yelling down out of the soft myriad darkness of a May night; the next night he would be gone [...].
- "As a clinician, it's a difficult symptom to treat," Cornelius said. "The end symptom may be the same, but what's causing it may be myriad."
- 2
Great in number; innumerable, multitudinous.
- Earth hosts myriad animals.
- Driven by a perceived political need to adopt a hard-line stance, Mr. Cameron’s coalition government has imposed myriad new restrictions, the aim of which is to reduce net migration to Britain to below 100,000.
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。