immense
immense 英 [ɪˈmens] 美 [ɪˈmɛns]
adj. 巨大的，广大的；无边无际的；非常好的
- Immense means very large in size, amount, or degree. You might describe the ocean as immense, or your homework load, or the slice of cake your brother took, leaving you a tiny sliver.
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- adj. 巨大的，广大的；无边无际的；非常好的
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1. One disease on our agenda causes immense suffering in large parts of the world, but does its greatest harm in Africa.
我们的议程上有一种疾病在世界上许多地方造成巨大的痛苦，但在非洲产生最大的危害。
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2. But the cost — to the world economy and, above all, to the millions of lives blighted by the absence of jobs — will nonetheless be immense.
但其代价——对整个世界经济，尤其是对那些由于失业而饱受挫折的千百万的民众来说——将仍然是巨大的。
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3. He complains that the statement on uncertainties is also misleading because it does not reveal that uncertainties about future climate projections are, in his view, immense.
他抱怨说，对于不确定性的声明也是误导，因为它没有披露出未来气候预测中的不确定性，在他看来那是巨大的。
- immense (adj.) "great beyond measure," early 15c., from Old French immense (mid-14c.), from Latin immensus "immeasurable, boundless," also used figuratively, from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + mensus "measured," past participle of metiri "to measure" (from PIE root *me- (2) "to measure"). A vogue word in 18c., and mocked as such:
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