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a. 极广大的, 无边的, 非常好的



    immense
    [ adj ]
    unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
    <adj.all>
    huge government spendinghuge country estates
    huge popular demand for higher education
    a huge wave
    the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains
    immense numbers of birds
    at vast (or immense) expense
    the vast reaches of outer space
    the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization


    Immense \Im*mense"\, a. [L. immensus; pref. im- not + mensus, p.
    p. of metiri to measure: cf. F. immense. See {Measure}.]
    Immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast;
    huge. ``Immense the power'' --Pope. ``Immense and boundless
    ocean.'' --Daniel.

    O Goodness infinite! Goodness immense! --Milton.

    Syn: Infinite; immeasurable; illimitable; unbounded;
    unlimited; interminable; vast; prodigious; enormous;
    monstrous. See {Enormous}.

    1. It faces the immense challenge of pulling Algeria out of a crisis brought on by the plummeting price of oil, which represents 97 percent of the country's export earnings.
    2. "There is now an immense hole in amateur surfing on the West Coast because he was really the crankshaft of organized surfing on the West Coast," said Surfer magazine publisher Steve Pezman. "The sport will miss him.
    3. He relished his wife, delighted in her pregnancies, and viewed his growing brood with immense satisfaction.
    4. Nigel Lawson was a victim of the immense confusion in thought that has been characteristic of Western financial circles during the 1980s.
    5. There remains great caution among consumers and subsequently among advertisers. Says Terry Rosenquist, head of Lintas Europe: 'The recession has led to fierce competition, with the retail trade sector putting immense pressure on FMCG manufacturers.
    6. They deserve to be treated with immense respect and dignity. Jocelyn Stevens is an ebullient showman and he has become something of a convert to the excitement of archaeology.
    7. The recurrent theme is that immense quantities of beer have been consumed. Nor does the RFU have anything helpful to say to its press officers about another murky aspect of the greatest game: foul deeds on the pitch.
    8. This book would have taken a long time to copy and would have cost a lot." Gabra said the book has immense historical value, epecially because it was found in a grave and did not arrive via antiquities smugglers.
    9. The challenges and opportunities are immense, according to Mr Jonas. 'The profession is at a crossroads,' he says.
    10. That is due, in part, to Coke's immense marketing and distribution clout.
    11. Mr. Brooks himself admits that "the mind has immense influence on the health of the body."
    12. 'Growing vines is now virtually all part-time work, either done as a second job or left to those who have already retired.' In spite of the immense difficulties, the wine business has not eroded, like many of the harsh hillsides which face the sea.
    13. But today, while Mr. de la Madrid still talks about revolutionary nationalism, he must service an immense foreign debt, sell off unproductive state industries created in the name of social justice, and try to create a free-market consciousness.
    14. It is an area of unpaved streets, small brick houses and immense poverty.
    15. With his immense wealth, he has acquired large land holdings that are today devoted to poppies.
    16. He said: 'The likelihood of lots of rights issues (to pay for this spending) is low.' Companies could be deterred from issuing shares to raise cash because 'institutions have been putting immense pressure on them to keep up dividend growth', he said.
    17. Critics of administration policy contend that more aid to the rebels will only prolong a conflict that has lasted 15 years and caused immense human suffering.
    18. 'I felt keenly there was a need for a successor to cathode ray tubes.' Sharp and its rivals have put immense effort into trying to increase the size of the displays.
    19. Japanese money is starting to flow into the immense $2.4 trillion residential mortgage loan market, one of the few U.S. investment opportunities it has not yet touched.
    20. Castro said the drug scandal did immense internal damage, eroded Cuba's international image and crippled the tourism industry it has been trying to foster.
    21. The task ahead is immense. Lower interest rates are not likely to encourage much borrowing, as both the US and Japan have discovered.
    22. Bond traders attributed the declines to several technical factors, including the government's immense borrowing needs at next week's quarterly refunding.
    23. (The auctioneers usually print 4,000.) After many a year out of fashion, those great chunks of stone and immense settings the duchess loved were once again in vogue, as part of what the Brits call "the Dynasty look."
    24. If computers were similarly open, immense benefits would flow.
    25. The mood is sombre, almost funereal. On the outskirts of the village, other peasants look, with a sense of immense frustration, at the bare 21-acre holding that should have yielded Mr Ahmed a valuable cotton crop.
    26. But Korea will become a more self-absorbed country as it tackles the immense task of unification.
    27. He called Raphel "a man of immense ability who'd been doing a superb job." At the State Department, spokeswoman Phyllis Oakley said, "We mourn the loss of Ambassador Raphel.
    28. And everywhere, Nancy has told me, there was a sense of history, especially of Leningrad's immense courage and sacrifice during the Second World War, surely one of the most stirring epics in the whole human story.
    29. The losses are, in architectural terms, immense.
    30. Along with an official photo-portrait, Mr. Al-Mukhtar's office is graced by an immense oil painting of a jovial-looking Mr. Hussein clad in Bedouin robes.
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