| 单词 | great |
| 释义 | great (greɪt ) Word forms: greater , greatest , greats 1. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] A2 You use great to describe something that is very large. Great is more formal than big. The room had a great bay window. ...a great hall as long and high as a church. Synonyms: large, big, huge, vast 2. adjective A2 Great means large in amount or degree. I'll take great care of it. Benjamin Britten did not live to a great age. Synonyms: extreme, considerable, excessive, high 3. adjective B2 You use great to describe something that is important, famous, or exciting. ...the great cultural achievements of the past. Synonyms: major, lead, leading, chief greatness uncountable noun B2 A nation must take certain risks to achieve greatness. Synonyms: strength, force, intensity, high degree Synonyms: grandeur, dignity, majesty, generosity Synonyms: importance, moment, weight, import [formal] Synonyms: immensity, size, mass, length Synonyms: grandeur, glory, majesty, splendour 4. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B2 You can describe someone who is successful and famous for their actions, knowledge, or skill as great. Wes Hall was once one of our greatest cricketers. ...the great George Padmore. Synonyms: expert, skilled, talented, skilful greatness uncountable noun Abraham Lincoln achieved greatness. Synonyms: strength, force, intensity, high degree Synonyms: grandeur, dignity, majesty, generosity Synonyms: importance, moment, weight, import [formal] Synonyms: immensity, size, mass, length Synonyms: grandeur, glory, majesty, splendour Synonyms: fame, glory, celebrity, distinction 5. plural noun The greats in a particular subject or field of activity are the people who have been most successful or famous in it. [journalism] ...all the greats of Hollywood. ...cycling's all-time greats. 6. plural noun The greats of popular modern music are records that have been successful and that continue to be popular. [journalism] ...a medley of rock'n'roll greats. 7. adjective A1 If you describe someone or something as great, you approve of them or admire them. [informal, approval] Arturo has this great place in Cazadero. They're a great bunch of guys. I think she's great. 8. adjective A1 If you feel great, you feel very healthy, energetic, and enthusiastic. I feel just great. 9. adjective B2 You use great in order to emphasize the size or degree of a characteristic or quality. [emphasis] ...a great big Italian wedding. ...her sense of colour and great eye for detail. 10. exclamation You say great in order to emphasize that you are pleased or enthusiastic about something. [feelings] Oh great! That'll be good for Fergus. 11. exclamation You say great in order to emphasize that you are angry or annoyed about something. [feelings] 'Oh great,' I thought. 'Just what I need.' 12. countable noun Great is used as part of the name of a species of plant or animal when there is another species of the same plant or animal which is smaller and has different characteristics. ...the great white shark. 13. See also greater great- (greɪt- ) prefix Great- is used before some nouns that refer to relatives. Nouns formed in this way refer to a relative who is a further generation away from you. For example, your great-aunt is the aunt of one of your parents. ...Davis's great-grandmother. Idioms: be going great guns said to mean that someone is being very successful at something The firm's chairman and managing director is going great guns with his expansion plans. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers great oaks from little acorns grow or mighty oaks from little acorns grow said to mean that something large and successful began in a small and insignificant way Henry Ford did not start his operations by opening hundreds of factories in his first year. Remember, mighty oaks from tiny acorns grow. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers make great play of something [British] to put too much emphasis on something or exaggerate its importance He made great play of stepping over especially low tables to reach the other side of the stage. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers no great shakes ineffective, useless, or of poor quality This restaurant is no great shakes gastronomically, but the portions are huge. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: great influence These forces have long arms, deep pockets and great influence. Times, Sunday Times (2014) She undoubtedly had a great influence on me. Times, Sunday Times (2013) At high frequencies, it was found that curvature had a great influence on the horizontal amplitude of basilar membrane. 2017, 'Research on the characteristics of dynamic behavior of basilar membrane in spiral cochlea', Journal of Vibroengineering Fragment diastases exert a great influence on healing at the fracture line and on pulpal necrosis. 2014, 'Healing after horizontal root fractures: 3 cases with 2-year follow-up', Restorative Dentistry & Endodontics Breeding performance had great influence on the development of the young crucian carp types. 2012, 'Fish-breeding-biological and productional characteristic of reproductive peculiar properties of crucian and gold carp breeders and their's hybrids', RUDN Journal of Agronomy and Animal Industries The characters are always talking, often with great irony, with self-revealing or obfuscating effects: speech is action. The Times Literary Supplement (2018) The greatest irony was Schrader's unwitting involvement in the whole plan. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH' (2002) The great irony is that it was a relationship borne from more worrying beginnings. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The great majority of these characters are cartoonish. The Times Literary Supplement (2014) The great majority of our land is countryside and the great majority of that is farmland. Times, Sunday Times (2012) The great majority of these weights had simple geometric shapes. The Times Literary Supplement (2010) The great majority of them probably will repay in this way, despite the recent shenanigans. Times, Sunday Times (2008) The great majority of people in employment have seen wage increases year on year. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Motorists are increasingly (and you may well say justifiably) demonised for their contribution to climate change and for generally stinking up the great outdoors. Times, Sunday Times (2007) It's the alternative comedians who go for production values and the great outdoors. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Our feathered friends can brighten up any room by bringing the great outdoors indoors. The Sun (2018) He used to try to get my mother to go up there, but she loathed the great outdoors in general and the Adirondacks in particular. DOLL'S EYES During your stay, take advantage of the great outdoors. Smithsonian Mag (2017) My grandfather used to play the musical saw and it gave me great pleasure to know a part of him is on this album. The Sun (2009) In fact, great pleasure can be occasioned by a clothes airer that has been created just so. Times, Sunday Times (2014) There is great pleasure to be derived from plain. Times, Sunday Times (2016) I justified it as a purchase that would give me great pleasure and enjoyment for many years to come. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Writing these fortnightly columns has been, and continues to be, a great pleasure. Times, Sunday Times (2008) There is great potential for the marketing of both biodiversity and ecosystem services from conserved wetlands as a way for them to become financially self-sufficient. The Scientist (2000) Culinary biography is a relatively undersubscribed genre, but this biographer and subject show off its great potential. Times, Sunday Times (2017) The moon brings great potential in an ongoing situation, and news at home puts a big smile on your face. The Sun (2015) You have great potential, but have not yet realized it to its fullest extent, as was demonstrated by the Parsifal case. LOHENGRIN As a powerfully built youngster, he showed great potential as a goal threat. Times, Sunday Times (2016) We are in the second decade of a century of great promise and great peril. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Metal contamination in the marine environment is a problem the world over, and this solution holds great promise. Smithsonian Mag (2017) The website business is small but shows great promise and the management is well regarded. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Hence, fucoxanthin and its metabolites show great promise as chemotherapeutic agents in cancer. 2013, 'Fucoxanthin: A Marine Carotenoid Exerting Anti-Cancer Effects by Affecting Multiple Mechanisms', Marine Drugs Direct conversion of nonneural cells to functional neurons holds great promise for neurological disease modeling and regenerative medicine. 2014, 'Generation of Induced Neuronal Cells by the Single Reprogramming Factor ASCL1', Stem Cell Reports I had great respect for the law and particularly the courts, having worked as a copy typist and committal court assistant for many years. Times, Sunday Times (2013) He had great respect for the DST, which functioned much like a combination of the CIA and FBI within France. THE SHADOWS OF POWER (2002) We treat it with great respect. Times, Sunday Times (2016) He also won great respect for his selfless service of victims of two plague epidemics. COLLINS DICTIONARY OF SAINTS (2004) We leave the hotel and get great respect from the fans. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Bungee jumping and skydiving are risky, but perhaps the greatest risk in life is to love someone enough to bare one's soul, and one's cellulite. Globe and Mail (2003) He must have overslept wildly and dangerously, and had awoken at dawn -- the hour of greatest risk to him. TANK OF SERPENTS (2003) Each time he attacks, he places himself at great risk, simply because of his proximity. RUNNING FROM THE LAW (2001) The people carrying out the work are putting themselves at great risk. The Sun (2017) Can young people again care about music enough to wear distressed dungarees in Birmingham city centre at great risk to their own physical welfare? Times, Sunday Times (2010) But when it is given great significance and symbolic importance far beyond what it really deserves, then the harm occurs. Christianity Today (2000) It wasn't of great significance until a few years after. The Sun (2010) This has great significance for the pastor. Christianity Today (2000) The elements of gnoseology which arise from this reflection have a great significance in media and communication studies. 2015, 'Conoscere per minuzie. Elementi di gnoseologia in Kierkegaard, Benjamin e McLuhan=Knowing through Minutia. Elements of Gnoseology in Kierkegaard, Benjamin and Mcluhan.', H-ermes: Journal of Communication Therefore, this research will have a great significance for the process of the tetrafluoroethylene emulsion polymerization in the future. 2014, 'The Research on Modeling and Simulation of TFE Polymerization Process', Mathematical Problems in Engineering If you have a good partnership in life, one bolsters up the other and that has been a great strength. Times, Sunday Times (2017) To cling to the idea of 'for better, for worse' can be a proof of great strength and lasting, unconditional love. Times, Sunday Times (2007) His media power and his campaigning ability are his great strength. Times, Sunday Times (2010) To me diversity is a great strength in a building, just as in ecological systems. Ice Time: Climate, Science, and Life on Earth (1990) Europe's great strength and its great weakness, I must admit, has been the diversity of cultures, not the homogenization of them. CORMORANT Perhaps the greatest success for operational research during the war was the application of statistical analysis to the convoy war. Times, Sunday Times (2015) As a retail outlet, the piece has been a great success. Times, Sunday Times (2017) This was a great success for the five-year-old, who was gamely zooming down blue runs by the end of the week. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Her greatest success, she said, after five years of lobbying, was finally getting road construction under way. Times, Sunday Times (2010) The great success of modern mass-production has been to eradicate adulteration and serious food poisoning. Times, Sunday Times (2010) There is a great temptation to smile knowingly at such complaints, but only when other people are making them. The Constraints of Corporate Tradition (1987) But with great rewards came great temptation. Times, Sunday Times (2012) There is a great temptation to work through the lunch hour. Beat Stress (1992) Yet the great temptation is to seek one in an unproven treatment regimen the patient has followed. Times, Sunday Times (2007) The great tragedy ended in farce. Times, Sunday Times (2016) The family had suffered great tragedy in the past. Times, Sunday Times (2014) This was a great tragedy, and a great blow to the ego of the superpower. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Mumbai is a mixture of great wealth and extreme poverty, delightful colonial buildings alongside shanty huts. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Wool was once a symbol of great wealth. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Where is the grandeur that comes with great wealth and power? Times, Sunday Times (2008) It has the greatest impact in both one-on-one communications and large group communications. Christianity Today Evidence suggests that intervention at 14 has the greatest impact on persuading pupils that the best universities are within their grasp. Times, Sunday Times The research found that visiting historic towns and buildings had the greatest impact on wellbeing. Times, Sunday Times Possibly the greatest impact has come from the downsizing of the public sector. Times, Sunday Times The greatest impact was on the poorest households living in areas with the highest concentrations. Times,Sunday Times And he acknowledges that 'some schools and some areas have greater difficulty than others', usually the schools that are in the greatest need. Times, Sunday Times Most do not give to the greatest need but rather to the closest relationship. Christianity Today How do you stay hungry when your greatest need has been satisfied? Times, Sunday Times The report recommends ending the rule that forces local authorities to put the people in 'greatest need' at the top of the housing queue. Times, Sunday Times Identify the closest school with the greatest need and reach out to the volunteer coordinator or office staff there. Christianity Today Once you remain true to that mindset, it gives you the greatest opportunity. Times, Sunday Times They have the greatest opportunity to help shape the deal, although that's not to say that employees are passive. Times, Sunday Times Throughout the world, we need this dual focus of ensuring that our clients receive the highest-quality advice and our people the greatest opportunity to develop. Times, Sunday Times One part of me was exhilarated; this was my greatest opportunity yet. Christianity Today Two thirds claim these present the greatest opportunity to reduce costs. Times, Sunday Times He also said that he would relish the chance of taking on the greatest player of this generation. Times, Sunday Times The other was a footballing genius and the greatest player anyone born after 1970 has seen. Times, Sunday Times It was the kind of showing that backs up the words of those who declare him the planet's greatest player. The Sun I'd always thought he was probably the greatest player ever. Times,Sunday Times While the team may be on the verge of a remarkable achievement, their greatest player has recognised rebirth and rejuvenation. Times, Sunday Times Manicured lawns and perfectly planned borders are admirable, but in gardening, it's often the smallest things that give the greatest pleasure. Times, Sunday Times The film's greatest pleasure comes from the performances of the two leads. Times, Sunday Times Ultimately, though, it's the sense of their burgeoning ability that gives them the greatest pleasure. Times, Sunday Times All my life, my greatest pleasure has been tearing things up and throwing them out, getting rid of things. Times, Sunday Times The greatest pleasure of my working life has been coming into a business, analysing the challenges, setting a plan in place and seeing it through. Times, Sunday Times Yesterday, at least, the second was the one with the greatest potential to cause damage. Times,Sunday Times The greatest potential savings come from energy-intensive appliances in constant use, such as boilers and fridges. Times, Sunday Times Your professional life provides the greatest potential rewards right now, so turn your mind to take in the wonders of the world at large. The Sun Inhaled insulin has been heralded as the greatest potential advance in treatment for 80 years. Times, Sunday Times The investments that offer the greatest potential for superior returns over the longer term also come with the greatest risk of shortterm losses. Times, Sunday Times Those aged above 65 were at greatest risk. Times,Sunday Times The over-75s and those with heart trouble are at greatest risk. The Sun Researchers compared lifestyles of 5,000 adults to find those at greatest risk from heart disease. The Sun It's rare but, again, the extremes of age are at greatest risk. The Sun Others at greatest risk included people who drive through industrial areas and those who often kept car windows open. The Sun He also discovered that the greatest threat to an afternoon's filming was 'banoffee pie at lunchtime'. Times, Sunday Times The greatest threat to his plans may come from elements beyond his control. Times, Sunday Times When asked in an interview what's the greatest threat to comedy? The Sun The cuts were, he declared, 'the greatest threat to social cohesion for a generation'. Times, Sunday Times But before this study, poaching was not considered the greatest threat to the species. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But we know that history's greatest tragedies could and should have been avoided, but never were. Times, Sunday Times It's one of the greatest tragedies. The Sun With the exception of fleeting bursts of patriotism around our greatest wars and our greatest tragedies, our aspirations for unity in this country have largely gone unrealized. Christianity Today Amid the greatest tragedies, you glimpse the best in human nature. Times, Sunday Times In the notes of our anthem was the echo of one of the world's greatest tragedies. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Vitesse should not pose any significantly greater threat in comparison. Times, Sunday Times Relying on alternate airways would mean longer flights and significantly greater fuel usage. Times, Sunday Times Flying privately creates significantly greater carbon emissions than using scheduled flights. Times, Sunday Times At the end of this financial year, the results are expected to be significantly greater. Times, Sunday Times The makeover players had a significantly greater preference for a thinner silhouette. The Sun Translations: Chinese: 伟大的, 重要的, 非常好的 Japanese: 大きな, 優れた, 素晴らしい |
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