mass的中文翻译是什么意思

N-SING(聚成一体的)一团，一堆,一块

A mass of things is a large number of them grouped together.

• On his desk is a mass of books and papers.

  他的书桌上有大堆的书籍和文件。

N-SING大堆;许多;大量

A mass of something is a large amount of it.

• She had a mass of auburn hair.

  她有一头浓密的棕发。

QUANT大量;许多;一大堆

Masses of something means a great deal of it.

• There's masses of work for her to do...

  她有一大堆的工作要做。

• It has masses of flowers each year.

  它每年都开许多花。

ADJ一大群的;大批的

Mass is used to describe something which involves or affects a very large number of people.

• ...ideas on combating mass unemployment...

  对付大量失业的点子

• All the lights went off, and mass hysteria broke out.

  所有的灯都熄灭了，大家都变得歇斯底里起来。

N-COUNT(尤指无固定形状的)块，堆，团

A mass of a solid substance, a liquid, or a gas is an amount of it, especially a large amount which has no definite shape.

• ...before it cools and sets into a solid mass...

  在它冷却成为固态之前

• The fourteenth century cathedral was reduced to a mass of rubble.

  这座14世纪的大教堂变成了一堆瓦砾。

N-PLURAL（与领导或受过高等教育的人相对的）普通老百姓，民众，平民大众

If you talk about the masses, you mean the ordinary people in society, in contrast to the leaders or the highly educated people.

• His music is commercial. It is aimed at the masses...

  他的音乐走商业化路线，针对的是一般大众。

• This issue has aroused much resentment among the masses.

  这个问题在民众中间引起了强烈的不满。

N-SING(民众中的)大部分，大多数

The mass of people are most of the people in a country, society, or group.

• The 1939-45 world war involved the mass of the population...

  1939至1945年间的世界大战使大多数民众卷入其中。

• Schools allowed the mass of children to leave school at 16 with poor qualifications.

  学校允许大部分考试成绩差的学生16岁时毕业离校。

N-COUNT（人）一大群，一大堆

A mass of people is a large crowd of them.

• ...masses of excited people clogged the streets.

  情绪激动的人群挤满了街道。

• ...a mass of grinning teenage faces.

  一张张少年的笑脸

V-ERG(使)聚集;(使)集中;(使)集结

When people or things mass, or when you mass them, they gather together into a large crowd or group.

• Shortly after the workers went on strike, police began to mass at the shipyard...

  工人们罢工后不久，警察就开始在船厂集结。

• The clouds massed, whipped up by the wind...

  云卷云舒随风起。

N-SING充满;布满

If you say that something is a mass of things, you mean that it is covered with them or full of them.

• His body was a mass of sores...

  他遍体鳞伤。

• In the spring, the meadow is a mass of daffodils.

  春天，草地上开满了黄水仙。

N-VAR(物理学中的)质量

In physics, the mass of an object is the amount of physical matter that it has.

• Astronomers know that Pluto and Triton have nearly the same size, mass, and density.

  天文学家知道冥王星与海卫一拥有几乎相同的体积、质量与密度。

N-VAR弥撒(尤指天主教或东正教的圣餐仪式，以此纪念耶稣基督的最后的晚餐)

Mass is a Christian church ceremony, especially in a Roman Catholic or Orthodox church, during which people eat bread and drink wine in order to remember the last meal of Jesus Christ.

• She attended a convent school and went to Mass each day.

  她上的是教会学校，每天都去做弥撒。

N-COUNT弥撒曲

A Mass is a piece of music which uses the prayers from the Christian ceremony of Mass as the words that are sung.