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Profuse means there is a very large amount of something — so much that it feels as if it is pouring out. The word likes certain partners. People talk of profuse sweating (you are soaked), profuse bleeding (a lot of blood), profuse apologies, profuse thanks, or profuse praise — they keep giving them, almost too many. Flowers can be profuse in spring. Though actually, it is not a calm word for ‘many’. A shelf with many books is not ‘profuse books’. You use it when something : liquid, feeling, flowers, words of thanks. It is a little formal. In speech, a lot of, pouring, or wet will do for sweat; endless for apologies. There is a rare old verb to profuse, ‘to pour out’, but almost only meet the adjective.
大量的、豐富的(常指汗、血、道歉、稱讚,有「湧出來」的感覺)
組成From Latin profusus, ‘poured out’.
同家族的字
- profuselythe adverb: sweating profusely, apologizing profusely
- profusionthe usual noun: a very large amount of something
- profusenessanother noun from the same adjective, less common than profusion
原始詞典資料2 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。
profuseadj/pɹəˈfjuːs/
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abundant or generous to the point of excess; copious; volubly expressed.
- She grew profuse amounts of zucchini and pumpkins.
- profuse hospitality; profuse apologies; profuse expenditure
profuseverb/pɹəˈfjuːs/
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obsoleteTo pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander.
- Mercury, thy help hath been profused
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。