Enormity
[ɪ'nɔːmɪtɪ] or [ɪ'nɔrməti]
解释:
(noun.) an act of extreme wickedness.
(noun.) the quality of extreme wickedness.
(noun.) vastness of size or extent; 'in careful usage the noun enormity is not used to express the idea of great size'; 'universities recognized the enormity of their task'.
卡斯特罗校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The state or quality of exceeding a measure or rule, or of being immoderate, monstrous, or outrageous.
(n.) That which is enormous; especially, an exceeding offense against order, right, or decency; an atrocious crime; flagitious villainy; an atrocity.
编辑:奥马尔
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Atrociousness, depravity, atrocity, flagitiousness, wickedness.[2]. Atrocious crime, flagitious villany.
校对:桑福德
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Atrocity, perpetration, abomination, sin
ANT:Innocence, guiltlessness, clean_hands, clear_conscience
编辑:维姬
例句:
- I came to you that morning in order to understand the full enormity of my offence. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- But in vain he cried out against the enormity of turtle and champagne that was fit for an archbishop. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Only, shy and retiring as your general manner was, I wondered what personal or facial enormity in me proved so magnetic to your usually averted eyes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- All I am concerned about is in arriving at a sense of the enormity of the impulse behind the social evil. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- It is high time, for the sake of humanity, that a stop were put to this enormity. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- I wish my people to be impressed with the enormity of the crime, the determination to punish it, and the hopelessness of escape. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Topsy always made great capital of her own sins and enormities, evidently considering them as something peculiarly distinguishing. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- And I commit both those enormities, ma'am. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Now if it was Dick, now—here the old sinner cast up his eyes, as if unable to guess at Dick's enormities. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
录入:希莉娅