vast
vast 英 [vɑ:st] 美 [væst]
adj. 巨大的；大量的
比较级:vaster 最高级:vastest
- If you’re in a boat out on the water and you can’t see any land, then the body of water you’re in is probably vast, or enormous.
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- adj. 巨大的；大量的
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1. a vast area of forest
莽莽苍苍的森林
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2. a vast crowd
一大群人
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3. a vast amount of information
大量信息
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4. At dusk bats appear in vast numbers.
蝙蝠于傍晚时分大批出现。
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5. His business empire was vast.
他的企业规模庞大。
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6. the vastness of space
太空的浩瀚无垠
- vast (adj.) 1570s, "being of great extent or size," from Middle French vaste, from Latin vastus "immense, extensive, huge," also "desolate, unoccupied, empty." The two meanings probably originally attached to two separate words, one with a long -a- one with a short -a-, that merged in early Latin (see waste (v.)). Meaning "very great in quantity or number" is from 1630s; that of "very great in degree" is from 1670s. Very popular early 18c. as an intensifier. Related: Vastly; vastness; vasty.
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