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Picture standing at the edge of a desert or looking out over an ocean: it goes on further than you can take in, and there is no edge in sight. Vast is that scale — not just big, but big enough that you feel small looking at it.
可以想成：站在沙漠邊上，或望向一整片海——它延伸得比你眼睛能收進來的還遠，看不到邊。vast 講的就是這種規模：不只…更多收起
可以想成：站在沙漠邊上，或望向一整片海——它延伸得比你眼睛能收進來的還遠，看不到邊。vast 講的就是這種規模：不只是大，是大到你站在前面會覺得自己很小。原始詞典資料6 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。
vastadj/vɑːst/
- 1
Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).
- The Sahara desert is vast.
- There is a vast difference between them.
- 2
Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
- The exiguity and ſmallneſſe of ſome ſeeds extending to large productions is one of the magnalities of nature, ſomewhat illuſtrating the work of the Creation, and vaſt production from nothing.
- Another place where, from the aesthetic point of view, a long tunnel would have been a real blessing, is East London as viewed from the carriage window on the old Great Eastern line. Despite a vast change from crowded slums to tracts of wasteland, due to its grim wartime experience, this approach still provides a shabby and unworthy introduction to the great capital.
- 3
obsoleteWaste; desert; desolate; lonely.
- the empty, vast, and wandering air
vastnoun/vɑːst/
- 1
A vast space.
- they have seemed to be together, though absent, shook hands, as over a vast, and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds.
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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。