Infinity
[ɪn'fɪnɪtɪ] or [ɪn'fɪnəti]
解释:
(n.) Unlimited extent of time, space, or quantity; eternity; boundlessness; immensity.
(n.) Unlimited capacity, energy, excellence, or knowledge; as, the infinity of God and his perfections.
(n.) Endless or indefinite number; great multitude; as an infinity of beauties.
(n.) A quantity greater than any assignable quantity of the same kind.
(n.) That part of a line, or of a plane, or of space, which is infinitely distant. In modern geometry, parallel lines or planes are sometimes treated as lines or planes meeting at infinity.
编辑:朱利叶斯
同义词及近义词:
n. Infinitude, immensity, vastness.
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例句:
- I let him take them, therefore, from the hiding-place, and so saved myself an infinity of trouble. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- An infinity, the gypsy said. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- What less than infinity can circums cribe them, less than eternity comprehend them, or less than Omnipotence produce or support th em? 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- He regarded the universe as an infinity of worlds acted upon by an eternal Agent, and full of beings, tending through their vario us states to a final perfection. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Our minds embrace infinity; the visible mechanism of our being is subject to merest accident. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- This phenomenon may be varied to infinity, so to speak. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- He looked at his wrist watch and then up to where Primitivo was raising and lowering his rifle in what seemed an infinity of short jerks. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- No matter, I give you credit for having said an infinity of soft things, and wish it were in my power _de vous rendre les pareilles_. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- From the earliest times man learned to spurn the groveling things of earth, and to delight his soul with the marvelous infinity of the sky and its heavenly bodies. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
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