请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 infinitely
释义
infinitelyin‧fi‧nite‧ly /ˈɪnfənətli/ ●○○ AWL adverb [+adjective/adverb] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Our new office building is infinitely better than the old one.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
 In warm weather, clothes made of natural fabrics are infinitely preferable (=much better).
(=very much better)· You’d be better off visiting the infinitely superior Imperial War Museum.
(=very much worse)· My fate could have been infinitely worse.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· They feel nurture is of infinitely greater importance than nature.· The clog on the market in equities must be infinitely greater.
· I didn't like having my teeth drilled but extractions were infinitely worse.· Julia took two deep breaths, felt infinitely worse and tapped on the mahogany panel of the door.· Yet my fate could have been infinitely worse.· But it is infinitely worse if you are so divided that it is apparent you can not take any action at all.
· In retrospect, dying of the disease itself would seem infinitely preferable to the agonies of death from mercury poisoning.· As a class, professional golfers are swell well-scrubbed chaps and chaplets, infinitely preferable to professional wrestlers or professional loan sharks.· It was fantastic and, I must confess, infinitely preferable to staying on my feet for two hours.· However good they might be as students, their families feel that marriage is infinitely preferable to a college career.· As exorcisms go, it was infinitely preferable to hurling verbal stakes at a callow Cambridge offspinner.
· Their gravitational attraction would thus curve up the universe to infinitely small size.· Otis, who bore lifelong grudges over provocations infinitely smaller than this, was realistic enough to know when he was had.· Then he swabbed the body down with a sticky powder, which removed a dozen infinitely small particles stuck to the skin.· All these shapes posses a hierarchical structure extending to infinitely small scales.
· The sensor can be adjusted through 180° horizontally and 90° vertically, so the detection zone is therefore almost infinitely variable.· Combinations are infinitely variable and the ultimate choice of elements will be determined by the requirements of a particular application.
· Even the most tenuous thread of story is infinitely better than none at all.· Valerie Wright is talented in every department and therefore infinitely better than Neuwirth, but Pope would have been that much better.· That is bad enough of course, but infinitely better than two Mobs scrapping.· The refusal to see it, to be touched by it, which was so infinitely better than either sympathy or enthusiasm.· It tasted infinitely better than anything she had ever made for herself.
VERB
· In retrospect, dying of the disease itself would seem infinitely preferable to the agonies of death from mercury poisoning.· Any thought of danger seemed infinitely remote.· A pilgrimage to Jerusalem would have seemed infinitely remote to most adventurous folk in the early Middle Ages.· The merest action I managed to take seemed infinitely long in completing.· But any investigation into his biography seems infinitely more satisfying by reason of his virtue, his courage and his devotion to duty.
· Throughout its range of 2 octaves it is capable of infinitely varied coloration and texture, from silky velvet to deliberate ugliness.· Individual constellations of these requirements are infinitely varied, of course.· His material is leather, and his specialty is fitting a saddle to the infinitely varied human pelvis.· The conditions under which this manifestation is excited are infinitely varied, according to the nature of particular bodies.· The designs are unique, individual, can be infinitely varied each time.· Not surprisingly, the financial position of fringe bodies is almost infinitely varied.
very much – used especially when comparing things:  This school is infinitely better than the last one I went to. someone with infinitely more experience
随便看

 

英语词典包含52748条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/12/23 16:07:33