heaps [
hip]
ad. 非常, 极其
- We have heaps of time.
我们有很多时间。 - I've got heaps to tell you.
我有很多话要跟你说. - The burnt heaps of wood were still fuming.
燃烧的木堆仍在冒着烟。
heaps[ noun ]- a large number or amount
<noun.quantity>
made lots of new friends
she amassed stacks of newspapers
[ adv ]- very much
<adv.all>
thanks heaps
heaps \heaps\ n.
a large quantity. See {heap}, senses 2 and 3; as, he made
heaps of money in the stock market.
Syn: tons, dozens, lots, piles, scores, stacks, loads, rafts,
slews, wads, oodles, gobs, scads, lashings.
[WordNet 1.5]
- Though the judges can't suppress snickers as they plow through the heaps of manila envelopes and cardboard cartons, they are generally charitable.
- Volunteers shuffled among heaps of campaign literature and returning electoral officials brought further news of the party's defeat.
- After decades of decline, the river banks are today home to dilapidated warehouses and ballast heaps. But East Quayside has now received a potential shot in the arm.
- The rest was more predictable: white beans, green chillies, Swiss chard and heaps of oyster mushrooms.
- As the Dodger scout watches the Leones take batting practice one day, he heaps praise on the starting catcher, Juan Carlos Alvarez, within earshot of the Leones manager.
- The roof of a large, new cement plant caved in, and military warehouses at a nearby base were reduced to heaps of stone and mortar.
- Today's horror filmmakers, abandoning the point-blank plasma of recent years, are returning to psychological thrillers, with a wealth of lively style replacing heaps of dead teen-agers.
- But they predicted that the money saved by eliminating the administrative burdens posed by heaps of paperwork and different forms would result in lower health-care fees for patients.
- Waste heaps are being flattened to make way for high-technology factories the government hopes will cut unemployment, running at more than 20% in some towns.
- This destitute city of more than 1 million people has long been not only unsightly, but woefully unsanitary, with chest-high heaps of garbage on every corner, and sometimes even in the middle of the street.
- While most bond funds are pulling in heaps of money, interest in high-yielding junk-bond mutual funds is waning. During April, $312 million flowed into junk funds, compared with $493 million in March.
- In South Carolina, its brute energy created incongruous scenes: boats blown a half-mile inland, roofs sheared off, trees twisted into spaghetti-like heaps.
- As Johnson and others crept toward the heaps of bricks and mangled lumber and duct work, she zeroed in on the ripped-apart steel lockers _ one of them hers _ and the wildly flung books.
- Workers plunge yard-long, silver thermometers into the steamy heaps to monitor heat-releasing reactions.
- "We used to have heaps of sardines, so many you would lift them with spades.
- At Tenneco, for example, every 10-cent increase in the price of a thousand cubic feet of gas heaps on $35 million in annual pretax profit.
- Fire spread rapidly, turning metal girders red-hot and bringing decks crashing down in half-molten heaps.
- Cold weather slowed the rise of the Red River on Sunday, giving a reprieve to weary homeowners who have fought flooding with pumps, dikes and heaps of sandbags.
- An estimated 240 million tires are added to the highly flammable heaps each year.
- There were heaps of small arms, radios, gas masks, helmets, binoculars and other equipment.
- A Brownsville maintenance worker, Freddie Gonzalez, 34, took advantage of his 4-foot-8 frame to snake his way through the heaps of concrete, widening a path for two workers who followed in the 90-degree heat.