Enormity
[ɪ'nɔːmɪtɪ] or [ɪ'nɔrməti]
解釋/意思:
(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'.
卡斯特罗校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
編輯:奥马尔
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Atrociousness, depravity, atrocity, flagitiousness, wickedness.[2]. Atrocious crime, flagitious villany.
校對:桑福德
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Atrocity, perpetration, abomination, sin
ANT:Innocence, guiltlessness, clean_hands, clear_conscience
編輯:维姬
例句/造句/用法:
- I came to you that morning in order to understand the full enormity of my offence. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- 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. 維萊特.
- All I am concerned about is in arriving at a sense of the enormity of the impulse behind the social evil. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It is high time, for the sake of humanity, that a stop were put to this enormity. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- I wish my people to be impressed with the enormity of the crime, the determination to punish it, and the hopelessness of escape. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Topsy always made great capital of her own sins and enormities, evidently considering them as something peculiarly distinguishing. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- And I commit both those enormities, ma'am. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Now if it was Dick, now—here the old sinner cast up his eyes, as if unable to guess at Dick's enormities. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
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