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单词 enormity
释义
enormity
noun
uk
/ɪˈnɔː.mə.ti/us
/əˈnɔːr.mə.t̬i/

enormitynoun(SIZE)

[U]
verygreatsizeorimportance:
巨大；严重性；深远影响
Nobodyfullyunderstandsthe enormity andcomplexityofthetaskofrevivingthe country'seconomy.没人完全认清复兴该国经济这一任务的艰巨性和复杂性。
I don'tthinkyourealizethe enormityoftheproblem.我觉得你没有真正意识到问题的严重性。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Enormous
  • almighty
  • astronomical
  • astronomically
  • behemoth
  • bumper
  • by far and awayidiom
  • cavernous
  • immeasurably
  • immense
  • immensity
  • inordinate
  • inordinately
  • mountainous
  • precipitous
  • prodigiously
  • stratospheric
  • super-colossal
  • supersized
  • terrific
  • thumping
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enormitynoun(EVIL ACT)

[CorU]formal
anextremelyevilactor thequalityof beingextremelyevil
滔天罪行；罪大恶极
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Morally wrong and evil
  • abhorrent
  • amoral
  • amorality
  • anomie
  • antichrist
  • disgrace
  • dissipated
  • dissolute
  • dissolutely
  • dissoluteness
  • no more Mr Nice Guyidiom
  • non-ethical
  • obscene
  • obscenely
  • obscenity
  • turpitude
  • unconscionable
  • unconscionably
  • unethical
  • unprincipled
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(Definition ofenormityfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

enormity| American Dictionary

enormity
noun
us
/ɪˈnɔr·mə·t̬i/

enormitynoun(LARGENESS)

[U]
greatsizeoramount:
The enormity of thewildernessawedus.

enormitynoun(TERRIBLE QUALITY)

[C/U]
aterribleorimmoralact, or howterribleorimmoralsomething is:
[U]Shock over the enormity of thecrimehassubsided.
[C]Goya’s etchingsdepictinshockingdetailthe enormities ofwar.
(Definition ofenormityfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofenormity

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Perhaps it is only human nature for us to be interested in one another's enormities.
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They escape the enormities that we have to suffer.
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There is a slight sign of enormities again.
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How can he justify many of the absurdities and enormities that flow from the existing regulations?
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I wondered whether he had fled into the night because he was aghast at the enormities of our statistical, or mystical statistical, civilisation.
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Whatever the enormities of what he was doing, his political diaries have made an immense contribution for anybody who wants to know anything about politics.
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There is a basis for settlement, and that settlement would surely overtake the enormities of the present and many of the past.
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The sentencing council would take stronger views than the guidelines on such matters and expose some of the enormities.
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I am all for having enormities brought to light.
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If there are enormities let us be clear about them and be satisfied that they have been dealt with.
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He gets out his little black book and looks for enormities—more and more enormities.
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I am anxious that it should play its full part—indeed, perhaps more than its full part—in rectifying as far as possible with others concerned the enormities of past colonial policy.
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I cannot do more than draw the attention of the other place to the enormities of clause 4 and hope that it will take that to heart.
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I do not know how, in fact, it is possible to arrive at a conclusion on this matter without knowing something about its previous enormities, its previous iniquities.
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The carelessness of the scientists' team during the process led to the four new volunteers being transformed into enormities.
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