Abundance
[ə'bʌnd(ə)ns] or [ə'bʌndəns]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply; 'an age of abundance'.
(noun.) (chemistry) the ratio of the total mass of an element in the earth's crust to the total mass of the earth's crust; expressed as a percentage or in parts per million.
(noun.) (physics) the ratio of the number of atoms of a specific isotope of an element to the total number of isotopes present.
埃文編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number.
編輯:雷金纳德
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Flow, overflow, exuberance, luxuriance, fertility, copiousness, profusion, richness, largeness, ampleness, wealth, affluence, store, more than enough, great plenty.
昌西整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Plenty, largeness, copiousness, sufficiency, plentitude, exuberance, ampleness,profusion, luxuriance, wealth
ANT:Rarity, scarcity, paucity, deficiency, scantiness, dearth, failure, poverty
整理:普雷斯利
解釋/意思:
n. ample sufficiency: great plenty.—adj. Abund′ant plentiful.—adv. Abund′antly.
科尔校對
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream that you are possessed with an abundance; foretells that you will have no occasion to reproach Fortune, and that you will be independent of her future favors; but your domestic happiness may suffer a collapse under the strain you are likely to put upon it by your infidelity.
錄入:朱迪思
例句/造句/用法:
- The abundance or scantiness of this supply, too, seems to depend more upon the former of those two circumstances than upon the latter. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Yes, but we are not to conform to nature; I wish these girls to be the children of Grace: and why that abundance? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Sam was there new oiled from dinner, with an abundance of zealous and ready officiousness. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The Philosophical Transactions furnish us with abundance of histories of earthquakes, particularly one at Oxford in 1665, by Dr. Wallis and Mr. Boyle. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Having few artificial wants, they have abundance of leisure for improvement by conversation. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- In this way he was able to accumulate an abundance before the time finally fixed upon for the move, the 4th of May. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Whereas in the King's Bench--' Mr Rugg waved his right hand freely, as expressing abundance of space. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- There was an abundance of laughing and blessing Mas'r, as St. Clare distributed small pieces of change among them. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The early dinner hour at Joe's, left me abundance of time, without hurrying my talk with Biddy, to walk over to the old spot before dark. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Their quantity in China and Indostan must have been more or less affected by the abundance of the mines of America. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Petty wanted trade encyclopedias prepared, and hoped for inventions in abundance. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- He was a man whom it made happy to see others happy; he liked to have movement, animation, abundance and enjoyment round him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- This greater abundance, as it must necessarily have increased their enjoyments, so it must likewise have augmented their industry. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- We see now one reason for an abundance of fresh air in daily life. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- One immediate result of this achievement of printing was the appearance of an abundance of Bibles in the world. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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