| 单词 | to be a mass of |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be a (also one) mass of d. Hyperbolically: a person or thing regarded as consisting of a large quantity of, or as being notably characterized by, the thing or things specified. Esp. in to be a (also one) mass of. ΚΠ 1623 W. Gouge Serm. Extent God's Provid. §15 Papists..whose doctrine is a masse of ancient heresies. 1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse iv. vi. 20 in Wks. II I am a woman..match'd to a masse of folly. 1786 T. Jefferson Let. 12 Oct. in Papers (1954) X. 446 And yet in the evening, when one took a retrospect of the day, what a mass of happiness had we travelled over! 1845 F. Marryat 5 Apr. in Life & Lett. (1872) II. 197 The country is really, without exaggeration, one mass of violets. 1869 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland (ed. 3) ii. 21 The church itself was seen to be a mass of abuses. 1895 H. G. Wells Time Machine vi. 52 What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence? 1956 H. J. Paton in H. D. Lewis Contemp. Brit. Philos. 348 The patchwork theory..supposed his work to be a mass of contradictions. 1986 ‘L. Cody’ Under Contract xxxv. 136 This shoulder's going to be awfully stiff. It'll be a mass of bruises in the morning. < as lemmas |
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