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单词 plethora
释义
plethora
noun[S]
formal
uk
/ˈpleθ.ər.ə/us
/ˈpleθ.ɚ.ə/
C2
a verylargeamountof something,especiallyalargeramountthan you need,want, or candealwith:
过多，过剩
There'saplethoraofbooksabout theroyalfamily.有关皇室的书非常多。
The plethoraofregulationsis bothcontradictoryandconfusing.过多的规章制度既相互矛盾又令人迷惑。
Synonym
profusionformal
Compare
cornucopiaformal
anembarrassmentof richesformal
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Too much and unnecessary
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  • drown
  • gush
  • hyper
  • immoderate
  • immoderately
  • inessential
  • insatiable
  • overdose
  • plenty
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  • pleonastic
  • proliferation
  • redundancy
  • weighsomeone/somethingdown
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Masses and large amounts of things
(Definition ofplethorafrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

plethora| American Dictionary

plethora
noun[U]
us
/ˈpleθ·ər·ə/
a verylargeamountof something,esp. alargeramountthan you need,want, or candealwith:
a plethora ofexcuses/agencies/dietbooks
(Definition ofplethorafrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofplethora

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This conflicting opinion, together with complex cultural and socioeconomic issues surrounding wetlands, has given rise to aplethoraof views on how to develop wetlands.
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Inevitably, health and safety legislation generates aplethoraof acronyms, which are fortunately well covered by a 12-page appendix.
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In the light of such developments aplethoraof institutions both national and international have trumpeted the paramountcy of the fight against corruption.
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He cites numerous examples and aplethoraof statistical information to document the population changes ahead, as well as the reasons for falling fertility rates.
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Indeed, preliminary inventories of the general linguistic characteristics of the dialects reveals aplethoraof archaic features.
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There is always ample factual information, which also neatly guides the reader through theplethoraof government publications.
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A heterogeneity of memories triggered by the same memory material, stirring up aplethoraof emotional extensions of the work.
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As revonsuo and other evolution-minded theorists suggest, humans, like other animals, should have evolved aplethoraof special threat-detection devices.
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Despite theplethoraof theories that have surfaced over the years, there are really only two ways of explaining visual experience.
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The combination produces a book difficult to summarize, for it contains aplethoraof information, visual images, and impressive historical and theoretical discussion.
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Outside the hall, theplethoraof booths, entertainments and ballad singers gave the scene a carnivalesque atmosphere.
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The original idea of a profile developed into aplethoraof projects that in scope was far greater than originally envisaged.
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Treatment of electromagnetic methods is difficult because of theplethoraof methods with very specific applications.
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In disco music and the subsequentplethoraof 'dance' forms, it has taken on new importance.
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There is aplethoraof community musical activities being led, sometimes by 'qualified' teachers, sometimes not.
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