Numerous
['njuːm(ə)rəs] or ['numərəs]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) amounting to a large indefinite number; 'numerous times'; 'the family was numerous'; 'Palomar's fans are legion' .
布丽奇特編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Consisting of a great number of units or individual objects; being many; as, a numerous army.
(a.) Consisting of poetic numbers; rhythmical; measured and counted; melodious; musical.
布莱恩錄入
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Large (in number), made up of many.[2]. [Rare.] Rhythmical, melodious, musical.
艾丽莎手打
同義詞及反義詞:
[See MANY]
霍奇編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Of the numerous other telegraph instruments that have been invented since 1837, that of Mr. Morse is in most general use, especially on the Continent and in America. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Safety clutches are numerous, by which the machine is quickly and automatically stopped by the action of electro-magnets should a workman or other obstruction be caught in the machinery. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- There were numerous dragon flies--one found in the Belgian coal-measures had a wing span of twenty-nine inches! 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Numerous attempts were consequently made to obtain a more sensitive material. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Numerous instances could be given. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- In a narrative not intended to be strictly technical, it would probably tire the reader to follow this material in detail through the numerous steps attending the magnetic separation. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Such an arrangement of wire is known as a helix or solenoid, and is capable of lifting or pulling larger and more numerous filings and even good-sized pieces of iron, such as tacks. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The preservation of food is also dependent on ammonia, which produces the refrigerating effect in the numerous cold storage houses and artificial ice plants in this country. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Why should the brain be enclosed in a box composed of such numerous and such extraordinarily shaped pieces of bone apparently representing vertebrae? 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Numerous offences had been committed in the neighbourhood; the perpetrators remained undiscovered, and their boldness increased. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- My papa lived to bail Mr. Micawber several times, and then expired, regretted by a numerous circle. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Columbus, besides being strongly fortified, contained a garrison much more numerous than the force I had with me. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The world was not slow to take advantage of the fact, hence there are in the field numerous other concerns in the same business. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- There were numerous other workers in the field, but they added nothing to what had already been proposed. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I was in the service of a farmer; and with crook in hand, my dog at my side, I shepherded a numerous flock on the near uplands. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Are you not even now more numerous than we are? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Probably the numerous Jews in Medina had shaken the ancient idolatry of the people. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Tucking, ruffling, braiding, cording, hemming, turning, plaiting, gaging, and other attachment devices are numerous. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Among table appliances are toasters, coffee percolators, electric teapots, chafing dishes and numerous other articles that add to the convenience of preparing food. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- One of his most intimate friends was a merchant, who, from a flourishing state, fell, through numerous mischances, into poverty. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Among the other books were a primer, some child's readers, numerous picture books, and a great dictionary. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Probably each of these original tribes was not more numerous altogether than the Indians in Hudson Bay Territory to-day. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Edward Muybridge, an Englishman, by way of experiment, placed numerous cameras at regular intervals about the track, which, by electrical contact, were snapped by the horse in passing. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Still, the more numerous and violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort--they are reliefs of pain. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The office-papers we placed on one side, and the private papers (which were not numerous) on the other. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Look at the numerous families of girls in this neighbourhood--the Armitages, the Birtwhistles, the Sykeses. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The 'Saturday Magazine,' 'Chambers' Journal,' the 'Magasin Pittoresque,' in France, and numerous others, owe their existence to this printing machine. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Davy recognized and explained the beneficial fertilizing effects of ammonia, and analysed and explained numerous fertilizers, including guano. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- He replied that they were less numerous in some parts of the atmosphere than in others. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Were all the infinitely numerous kinds of animals and plants created as eggs or seed, or as full grown? 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
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