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GRE 红宝书

• n. 体积, 数量; 大多数; 大身躯
• ［英］ n. 体积, 数量 ( size, quantity) ;
• ［例］ He heaved ( 举起) his huge bulk out of the chair .

Webster Collegiate

kI. noun

• Etymology: Middle English, heap, ~, from Old Norse ~i cargo
• Date: 15th century
• 1.
  • a. spatial dimension ; magnitude
  • b. material that forms a mass in the intestine; especially fiber 1d
• 2.
  • a. body; especially a large or corpulent human body
  • b. an organized structure especially when viewed primarily as a mass of material
  • c. a ponderous shapeless mass
• 3. the main or greater part
• Synonyms:
  • ~, mass, volume mean the aggregate that forms a body or unit. ~ implies an aggregate that is impressively large, heavy, or numerous zuoxiethe darkened ~ of the skyscrapersyouxie. mass suggests an aggregate made by piling together things of the same kind zuoxiea mass of bouldersyouxie. volume applies to an aggregate without shape or outline and capable of flowing or fluctuating zuoxiea tremendous volume of wateryouxie.

II. verb

• Date: 1540
• transitive verb
  • 1. to cause to swell or bulge ; stuff
  • 2. to gather into a mass or aggregate
• intransitive verb
  • 1. swell, expand
  • 2. to appear as a factor ; loom zuoxiea consideration that ~s large in everyone's thinkingyouxie

III. adjective

• Date: 1693
• 1. being in ~ zuoxie~ cementyouxie
• 2. of or relating to materials in ~

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