broad
broad 英 [brɔ:d] 美 [brɔd]
adj. 宽阔的；广泛的；大概的
名词复数:broads 比较级:broader 最高级:broadest
- The adjective broad boasts an extensive — you might even say broad — array of subtly different meanings including wide, spacious, far-reaching, vague, and unsubtle.
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- adj. 宽阔的；广泛的；大概的
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1. a broad street, a broad avenue, a broad river
宽广的街道╱林荫道╱河流
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2. broad shoulders
宽肩
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3. He is tall, broad and muscular.
他身高体宽，肌肉发达。
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4. two metres broad and one metre high
两米宽，一米高
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5. a broad range of products
各种各样的产品
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6. a broad spectrum of interests
广泛的兴趣
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7. There is broad support for the government's policies.
政府的政策得到了广泛的支持。
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8. the broad outline of a proposal
提案的纲要
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9. The negotiators were in broad agreement on the main issues.
谈判代表们在主要问题上的意见大致相同。
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10. a broad expanse of water
一片辽阔的水域
- broad (adj.) Old English brad "wide, not narrow," also "flat, open, extended," from Proto-Germanic *braithaz (source also of Old Frisian bred, Old Norse breiðr, Dutch breed, German breit, Gothic brouþs), which is of unknown origin. Not found outside Germanic languages. There is no clear distinction in sense from wide. Of day or daylight, late 14c.; of speech or accents, 1530s. Related: Broadly; broadness.
- broad (n.) c. 1300, "breadth" (obsolete), from broad (adj.). Sense of "shallow, reedy lake formed by the expansion of a river over a flat surface" is a Norfolk dialect word from 1650s. Meaning "the broad part" of anything is by 1741.
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