新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

mass

英  [mæs]
    

[ADJ, NOUN, VERB]

    ADJ. 形容词
  • 1人数众多的

    Mass is used to describe something which involves or affects a very large number of people.

    双语例句

    例:

    ideas on combating mass unemployment.

    关于解决大规模失业问题的想法。

    例:

    All the lights went off, and mass hysteria broke out.

    所有的灯都熄灭了,大家变得歇斯底里起来。

    例:

    weapons of mass destruction.

    大规模杀伤性武器。

    例:

    the harm caused by mass tourism.

    游客人数过多带来的危害。

    NOUN. 名词
  • masses

    1[SING 单数型名词] 一堆

    A mass of things is a large number of them grouped together.

    双语例句

    例:

    On his desk is a mass of books and papers.

    在他书桌上有大堆的书和文件。

    2[SING 单数型名词] 许多

    A mass of something is a large amount of it.

    双语例句

    例:

    She had a mass of auburn hair.

    她有一头浓密的棕发。

    3[C 可数名词] 块 , 团 , 堆

    A mass of a solid substance, a liquid, or a gas is an amount of it, especially a large amount which has no definite shape.

    双语例句

    例:

    before it cools and sets into a solid mass.

    在它冷却成为一块固体之前。

    例:

    The fourteenth century cathedral was reduced to a mass of rubble.

    那座十四世纪的大教堂成了一堆废墟。

    例:

    the strong temperature difference between the two masses of air.

    那两个气团之间强烈的温差。

    4[PL 复数] 普通百姓 , 大众

    If you talk about the masses, you mean the ordinary people in society, in contrast to the leaders or the highly educated people.

    双语例句

    例:

    His music is commercial. It is aimed at the masses.

    他的音乐很商业化,针对的是一般大众。

    5[SING 单数型名词] 大多数

    The mass of people are most of the people in a country, society, or group.

    近义词

    bulk , majority

    双语例句

    例:

    The 1939-45 world war involved the mass of the population.

    1939至1945年间的世界大战使多数人卷入其中。

    6[SING 单数型名词] 充满

    If you say that something is a mass of things, you mean that it is covered with them or full of them.

    双语例句

    例:

    His body was a mass of sores.

    他浑身是伤。

    7[C, U 有变体名词] 质量

    In physics, the mass of an object is the amount of physical matter that it has.

    双语例句

    例:

    Astronomers know that Pluto and Triton have nearly the same size, mass, and density.

    天文学家们知道冥王星和海卫一拥有几乎相同的体积、质量和密度。

    例:

    the relative atomic mass of each atom within the molecule.

    该分子内部每个原子的相对原子质量。

    8[C, U 有变体名词] 弥撒

    Mass is a Christian church ceremony, especially in a Roman Catholic or Orthodox church, during which people eat bread and drink wine in order to remember the last meal of Jesus Christ.

    双语例句

    例:

    She attended a convent school and went to Mass each day.

    她上了一所由修道院设立的学校,每天都去作弥撒。

    QUANT. 数量词
  • 1大量

    Masses of something means a great deal of it.

    双语例句

    例:

    There's masses of work for her to do.

    她有一大堆的工作要做。

    VERB. 动词
  • masses , massing , massed

    1[I 不及物动词] 聚集

    When people or things mass, or when you mass them, they gather together into a large crowd or group.

    近义词

    gather

    双语例句

    例:

    Shortly after the workers went on strike, police began to mass at the shipyard.

    工人罢工后不久,警察开始在造船厂集结。