小词详解 | myriad
myriad 英 [ˈmɪriəd] 美 [ˈmɪriəd] (TOEFL TEM8 GRE IELTS)
例句
True, they would have to explain myriad compromises and abdications along the way.
确实,他们同时将必须为其无数的妥协及辞职作出解释。
Every day, wittingly or unwittinfly, we make a myriad of connections with people around the world.
每天,无论是有意还是无意,我们都会和周围的人有无数的联系。
基本释义
[noun] an extremely large number of sth
[名词] 无数,大量
[adjective] too numerous to be counted
[形容词] 太多了难以数清
深入解读
myri-,表示“一万,无数”
-ad,表名词,“…东西,状态”
myriad来自于希腊语myrias(大量的,无数的,一万的)可能来自PIE*meu,流动,流出,水流,词源同emanate,marine。即由流动的水引申词义丰饶的,许多的,无数的。需注意的是,该词在古希腊语为单个词所表示的最大数。词义演变比较abundant。
名著用例
Thus did the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five conduct their Greatnesses, and myriads of small creatures--the creatures of this chronicle among the rest--along the roads that lay before them.
一千七百七十五年就是像这样表现出了它的伟大,也把成干上万的小人物带上了他们前面的路--我们这部历史中的几位也在其中。
出自英国作家查尔斯·狄更斯所著的长篇历史小说《双城记》。
同近义词
infinte:having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude
innumerable:too many to be counted; very many
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