| 单词 | grand |
| 释义 | grand (grænd ) Word forms: grander , grandest , grands language note: The form grand is used as the plural for meaning [sense 8]. 1. adjective If you describe a building or a piece of scenery as grand, you mean that its size or appearance is very impressive. ...this grand building in the center of town. The scenery of South Island is on a grand scale. Synonyms: impressive, great, large, magnificent 2. adjective Grand plans or actions are intended to achieve important results. ...a passionate anti-slavery crusader with grand ideas for education. 3. adjective People who are grand think they are important or socially superior. [disapproval] He is grander and even richer than the Prince of Wales. The Duke of Clarence will be there, and many of your grander friends. 4. adjective If you describe an activity or experience as grand, you mean that it is very pleasant and enjoyable. Few museums could rival the Old Royal Observatory at Greenwich for a grand day out. The dinner was a grand success. He was having a grand time meeting new sorts of people. Synonyms: excellent, great [informal], fine, wonderful 5. adjective You can describe someone or something as grand when you admire or approve of them very much. [informal, spoken, approval] He was a grand bloke. 6. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] A grand total is one that is the final amount or the final result of a calculation. It came to a grand total of £220,329. 7. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] Grand is often used in the names of buildings such as hotels, especially when they are very large. They stayed at The Grand Hotel, Budapest. 8. countable noun A grand is a thousand dollars or a thousand pounds. [informal] They're paying you ten grand now for those adaptations of old plays. 9. countable noun [usually singular] A grand is the same as a grand piano. 10. See also grandly Collocations: couple of grand This leather bicycle is the wheel deal - if you have a spare couple of grand. The Sun (2016) Just for the hell of it to make a couple of grand from the Mail on Sunday. Times, Sunday Times (2009) They alone must have cost the best part of a couple of grand. KICK BACK (2002) The vital missing detail in the grand announcement was the moot's date. Times, Sunday Times Some spoke of an agreement being finalised last night, with a grand announcement being made this morning. Times, Sunday Times So at the beginning of this year a grand announcement was made. Times, Sunday Times But we have seen grand announcements of more money before. The Sun He was droll, engaging and a master of grand illusion and platform magic. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We tend to be susceptible to grand illusion, where our impressions of a richly detailed world obscures a reality of minimal environmental information and quick action. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, to perform the grand illusions like his father's it was necessary to appear in big arenas with more solid foundations, into which could be built stage trapdoors and tunnels. Times, Sunday Times He had no grand illusions about what art could do; but he had no doubt at all that it was still worth making art. Times, Sunday Times Grand illusions are usually very costly and, due to their size, are difficult to ship, which would explain the paucity of professional stage illusionists. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Grand mansion houses on the row cost several million. Times, Sunday Times Francophiles will adore this 19th-century grand mansion, the first of its kind to be built in the town. Times, Sunday Times Within a grand mansion, the flat has sea and mountain views, a separate entrance hall and two receptions; the ceilings are high and the fireplaces marble. Times, Sunday Times Think grand mansions hunkering haughtily at the back of the beach, like lofty dreams pinned down only by mortgages and palm trees. Times, Sunday Times Indeed, the area was chosen for the show because of its melting pot of cultures and the fact that grand mansions sit next to shabby flats. The Sun It's not a very grand monument; it's not a very big door. Times, Sunday Times He crowned the existing grand monument with a pyramid that was just as tall which contained 24 steps. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But governments have cut back on grand monuments and yesterday the foundry went into administration. Times, Sunday Times Once a civilization starts to go, it's not the great institutions, or the grand monuments, or the lofty ideals that begin to fall away. Globe and Mail Temples were levelled and some of the grandest monuments of old damaged and disfigured. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For she has grown up on the other side of the poststructuralist divide in the humanities, learning to distrust grand narrative and always to contextualize. The Times Literary Supplement Such a story invites a grand narrative, tracing a long development to a present culmination. The Times Literary Supplement The machines would fit into a grand narrative of the better life. Times, Sunday Times Indeed, he considered human rights to be 'the last grand narrative', a final refuge for those fighting inequity wherever and whenever this was located. Times, Sunday Times His film of the same name - which he wrote and directed - mixes the personal touch of the memoir with the grand narrative sweep of history. Times, Sunday Times Music for a grand occasion, certainly, but not music of real substance. Times, Sunday Times I arrived early enough, and stood around with fellow reporters making jokes about the clothes the dignitaries wore on this grand occasion. ST They played tentatively, as if fearing they could only upset a grand occasion. Times, Sunday Times Unfortunately the football itself was unable to match the grand occasion. ST If it's a really grand occasion, have your dressmaker come round and sew you into your gown. Times, Sunday Times These new-wave pâtissiers have spurred the grand palace hotels to up their afternoon-tea game. Times, Sunday Times The fort was demolished to build this grand palace. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 To their amazement, the stick and the hat transform into a grand palace with many servants. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A new grand palace along with other state buildings was built in the new capital. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was used for grand palace halls, multi-story towers, multi-story residential halls, and humble abodes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It culminates with the major parade that takes place the week before the grand parade. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It features a grand parade and street fair as well as canoe races, traditional games, singing, dancing, feasting, and fireworks. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Meanwhile, the launching of the festival started with a grand parade, which was participated by various government agencies, schools, nongovernment organizations and business establishments. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For example, a news report of a grand parade might be captioned as a grandpa raid. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Events include a horse, truck, and tractor pull, carnival rides, live bands, foot race, pedal pull, cattle and dairy shows, turtle derby and a grand parade. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I am distrustful of the grand plan. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Last year ministers devised a grand plan to secure the school's future. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Our grand plan is that this will be the ideal place for her to justify her own eclectic taste in design. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Yet government kept trying to do things by grand plan. Times, Sunday Times (2014) It's ethereal and unreachable, and gives us grand spectacle on a biblical level. Times, Sunday Times And what a grand spectacle it presents. Times, Sunday Times The reservoir provides a grand spectacle, and in the past it was the hunting forest resort. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Dancing water was combined with music and fireworks to form a grand spectacle. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The piece required much grand spectacle and elaborate costumes, with a wide range of locations and scene changes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They admire his grasp of grand strategy, his subtlety, his ability to up-end conventional thinking. Times, Sunday Times He compartmentalised their assignments, so that none of them knew his grand strategy. Times, Sunday Times His greatest gifts were his clarity of mind, his sense of grand strategy and his ability to deploy power. Times, Sunday Times He had no grand strategy as a publisher, but rather followed his nose, acquiring valuable books and authors along the way. Times, Sunday Times Grand strategy, he points out, may as easily be undermined by the actualities of war — hunger, fear, lack of sleep, weather — as by poor decision-making or unclear objectives. Times, Sunday Times The smallest of the home nations went furthest in the competition, and they did it in grand style. Times, Sunday Times Kicking from hand was awry in first half, but box of tricks sprung open in grand style thereafter. Times, Sunday Times They fly in grand style, with neck and legs stretched out. Times, Sunday Times A party piece in grand style, thrilling and deliciously funny. Times, Sunday Times When he turned to the grand style of portraiture in the 1740s, he ended up being spectacularly good at it. Times, Sunday Times He and his team have thoroughly researched their subjects and stud the grand sweep of history with brilliant detail. Times, Sunday Times His works tackle large historical themes with a grand sweep, yet find room to experiment and be funny. Times, Sunday Times And not just the past few decades - it pays to study the grand sweep of history too. Times, Sunday Times In the grand sweep of elegant theory, sometimes you lose the argument itself. Times, Sunday Times I think that reaction was something to do with stepping back and seeing the grand sweep of the game, sensing the history. Times,Sunday Times Each chapter, each author addresses a grand theme - and a more light-hearted one. Times, Sunday Times These are very emotional roles, embodying grand themes of betrayal and redemption. Times, Sunday Times It has no grand themes, no dynamic engine, no particular reason for anything happening, except for cash. Times, Sunday Times No huge shock, of course, the resulting drama got so carried away with grand themes, in-jokes and the occasion, it forgot about the plot. The Sun He's a pragmatist who dislikes grand themes. Times, Sunday Times The grammatical errors come from that grand tradition of menu solecism that amuses snotty patrons from around the world. Times, Sunday Times Plainly, a large part of the project's appeal for him was the chance to make a costume drama in the grand tradition of such films — and he succeeded handsomely. Times, Sunday Times In the grand tradition of pantomime villainy, her youthful audience adored her for it. Times, Sunday Times So a spot of creative relabelling would be required, in the grand tradition of post-election promise-junking. Times, Sunday Times It would be some grand tradition, wouldn't it? Times, Sunday Times So what about his grand vision for producing talented home-grown players? Times, Sunday Times It would be a pity if the once grand vision of the palliative care movement were to be reduced to dogma and ritual. Times, Sunday Times His function was almost that of the football sweeper who sits deep behind the rest of his team and plays with the grand vision. Times, Sunday Times He was bewildered that the simplest artifact from his grand vision had been the most widely embraced. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He called the president a 'whirling dervish' of ideas who nevertheless lacked a grand vision. Times, Sunday Times The result was the increasing accumulation of capital on a grand scale. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies (1995) It is asymmetric warfare on a grand scale. Times, Sunday Times (2012) This particular story involves disappearing houses, old men crawling through the undergrowth, beautiful women impaled on railings and deception on a grand scale. Times, Sunday Times (2010) This suffered presenter overload on a grand scale. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Land sparing is already occurring on a grand scale. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Translations: Chinese: 盛大的 Japanese: 壮大な |
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