profusion
profusion 英 [prəˈfju:ʒn] 美 [prəˈfjuʒən,pro-]
n. 丰富,充沛;慷慨
名词复数:profusions
- If there's an abundance of something, you can say that there's a profusion of it. Hilarious and bizarre YouTube videos certainly exist in profusion.
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- n. 丰富,充沛;慷慨
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1. But I no longer feel in myself the same unbounded profusion of ready contrivance.
但是我自己却不再感到我急中生智的能力还是那般的无限丰富了。
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2. Where the appointments of luxury are in profusion, and frivolity tarnishes both day and night, this love is degraded, and woman's nature finds not the joy of its perfection.
在奢侈的家庭设施很丰富的地方,浅薄和无聊往往使白日和黑夜都失去了吸引力,这种爱就退化了,妇女的天性就找不到它的圆满的快乐。
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3. SOMEWHERE or other Byron makes use of the French word longeur, and remarks in passing that though in England we happen not to have the word, we have the thing in considerable profusion.
在一些地方,或者其他的“拜伦”们,会用到“冗长乏味”这个法语词,并且很好心地顺便注明尽管在英国没有这个词,却有相当之多的冗长与乏味。
- profusion (n.) 1540s, from Middle French profusion (16c.) and directly from Late Latin profusionem (nominative profusio) "a pouring out," noun of action from past participle stem of profundere (see profuse).
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