enormity
enormity 英 [ɪˈnɔ:məti] 美 [ɪˈnɔrməti]
n. 巨大；暴行；极恶
名词复数:enormities
- An enormity is something extreme or huge, almost beyond comprehension. If you call having to paint the house all by yourself an enormity, your friends might take pity on you and show up with brushes and rollers.
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- n. 巨大；暴行；极恶
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1. He frets about sewage in north Gaza, but is also worried that Europe and the US have still not grasped the enormity of the shift of power to Asia.
他不仅担心加沙北部的污水，而且也担心欧洲和美国仍旧没能理解权利转向亚洲所带来的巨大影响。
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2. Maybe, We Won't Know for Years Writing in the Washington Post, former U. S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker sees "not a record of failure but an illustration of the enormity of the challenges in Iraq.
或许，几年之内我们都不会知道前美国驻伊大使赖恩·克罗克在华盛顿邮报上发文写道“没有一项失败的记录，仅仅是在伊拉克遇到的巨大挑战的描述。”
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3. He remained there until daylight, in the same attitude, bent double over that bed, prostrate beneath the enormity of fate, crushed, perchance, alas!
他用同样的姿势呆到天明，在床上，上身扑在两膝上，被巨大的命运所压服，也许被压垮了，唉！
- enormity (n.) late 15c., "transgression, crime; irregularity," from Old French enormité "extravagance, atrocity, heinous sin," from Latin enormitatem (nominative enormitas) "hugeness, vastness; irregularity," from enormis "irregular, huge" (see enormous). Meaning "extreme wickedness" in English attested from 1560s. The notion is of that which surpasses the endurable limits of order, right, decency. Sense of "hugeness" (1765 in English) is etymological but to prevent misunderstanding probably best avoided in favor of enormousness, though this, too, originally meant "immeasurable wickedness" (1718) and didn't start to mean "hugeness" until c. 1800.
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