Magnitude
['mægnɪtjuːd] or ['mæɡnɪtud]
解释:
(noun.) the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small); 'they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion'; 'about the magnitude of a small pea'.
(noun.) relative importance; 'a problem of the first magnitude'.
佛瑞德整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Extent of dimensions; size; -- applied to things that have length, breath, and thickness.
(n.) That which has one or more of the three dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness.
(n.) Anything of which greater or less can be predicated, as time, weight, force, and the like.
(n.) Greatness; grandeur.
(n.) Greatness, in reference to influence or effect; importance; as, an affair of magnitude.
昌西整理
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Size, bulk, volume, extent, dimension, CAPACITY.[2]. Greatness, importance.[3]. (Math.) Quantity.
克林特手打
解释:
n. greatness: size: extent: importance.
校对:洛丽
娱乐性解释：
n. Size. Magnitude being purely relative nothing is large and nothing small. If everything in the universe were increased in bulk one thousand diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been. To an understanding familiar with the relativity of magnitude and distance the spaces and masses of the astronomer would be no more impressive than those of the microscopist. For anything we know to the contrary the visible universe may be a small part of an atom with its component ions floating in the life-fluid (luminiferous ether) of some animal. Possibly the wee creatures peopling the corpuscles of our own blood are overcome with the proper emotion when contemplating the unthinkable distance from one of these to another.
贺拉斯校对
例句:
- We have had the vague consciousness of assisting at a great development whose evidences to-day on every hand attest its magnitude. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- These lights dotted the hillside like stars of a low magnitude. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- And so we were most happily disappointed to find in the sequel that the guide had even failed to rise to the magnitude of his subject. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Nor could I consider the magnitude and complexity of my plan as any argument of its impracticability. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- Among the applications of the telegraph which deserve special mention for magnitude and importance is the Atlantic Cable. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- As the trees would have to be cut close to the bottom--under water--it was an undertaking of great magnitude. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Standing in front of the factory office, the visitor is doubly impressed with the magnitude of the view before him. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Trees of considerable magnitude have also been brought to light. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The manufacture of _sugar_ and _glucose_ from starch is an industry of great magnitude, which has grown up in the last twenty-five years. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Among the three hundred stars observed Challis was struck by the appearance of one which presented a disk and shone with the brightness of a star of the eighth magnitude. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- I said I would be ready at half-past six, and after she was gone, stood looking at the basket, quite lost in the magnitude of my trust. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The small weight makes up in distance what it lacks in magnitude. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- The Sphynx is grand in its loneliness; it is imposing in its magnitude; it is impressive in the mystery that hangs over its story. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Two offenses of a very different nature, and by no means of equal magnitude, you last night laid to my charge. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- One of my laboratory assistants went out with me and we visited many of the mines of New Jersey, but did not find deposits of any magnitude. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
录入:朱迪思