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adv. 最,最多(大); much的最高级; 非常,很; 几乎
n. 最大限度; 大部分; 大多数人
You use most to refer to the majority of a group of things or people or the largest part of something.
Most of the houses in the capital don't have piped water...
首都的大部分房屋没有自来水。
By stopping smoking you are undoing most of the damage smoking has caused...
通过戒烟可以消除吸烟造成的大部分危害。
You use the most to mean a larger amount than anyone or anything else, or the largest amount possible.
The President himself won the most votes...
总统本人获得最多选票。
The skippers get the most money, and after them the cooks...
船长拿到的钱最多,其次是厨师。
You use most to indicate that something is true or happens to a greater degree or extent than anything else.
What she feared most was becoming like her mother...
她最怕的就是变得像她妈妈那样。
What they wanted most from the president was a leader who at least would try to educate the country.
他们对总统最大的期待是,至少他应尽力教诲国民。
You use most to indicate that someone or something has a greater amount of a particular quality than most other things of its kind.
Her children had the best, most elaborate birthday parties in the neighborhood...
她的孩子们的生日聚会在街坊四邻里是最好、最讲究的。
He was one of the most influential performers of modern jazz...
他是现代爵士乐最有影响力的表演者之一。
If you do something the most, you do it to the greatest extent possible or with the greatest frequency.
What question are you asked the most?...
你们被问及最多的问题是什么?
Inevitably those who suffer the most are the mothers and children...
妇女和儿童必然是最遭罪的。
You use most in conversations when you want to draw someone's attention to something very interesting or important that you are about to say.
Most surprisingly, quite a few said they don't intend to vote at all...
最让人吃惊的是,相当多的人说他们根本不打算参加投票。
Most interestingly, they are demanding that a national working party on crimes against women and children be established.
最令人关注的是,他们要求针对侵害妇女和儿童的犯罪成立全国专案组。
You use most to emphasize an adjective or adverb.
I'll be most pleased to speak to them...
能跟他们谈谈我会十分高兴。
I believe he is most painfully anxious about Diana.
我相信他肯定非常担心黛安娜。
You use at most or at the most to say that a number or amount is the maximum that is possible and that the actual number or amount may be smaller.
Poach the pears in apple juice for perhaps ten minutes at most.
把梨放入苹果汁中,最多煮10分钟左右。
...staying on at school for two extra years to study only three, or at the most four subjects...
在学校再多呆两年学习仅仅三门、至多四门课程
If you make the most of something, you get the maximum use or advantage from it.
Happiness is the ability to make the most of what you have...
幸福就是有能力充分享受你拥有的一切。
Making the most of your hair means getting the cut and shape right.
让头发达到最佳效果意味着要修剪得当,并选择合适的发型。
1. (superlative of `many' used with count nouns and often preceded by `the') quantifier meaning the greatest in number;
2. the superlative of `much' that can be used with mass nouns and is usually preceded by `the'; a quantifier meaning the greatest in amount or extent or degree;
1. used to form the superlative;
2. very;
3. (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; `near' is sometimes used informally for `nearly' and `most' is sometimes used informally for `almost';
be the most
(非正式)是最好的
for the most part
通常,多半
make the most of
充分利用
at (the) most
达到最大值
Most cows run dry in about 10 months.
大多数乳牛约10个月后就不再有奶了.
Entry tickets to most attractions are included in the price of the holiday.
度假收费中包括大多数景点的入场券.
She performed the most challenging task without a mistake.
她毫无差错地完成了这一最富有挑战性的任务.
This law will deprive us of our most basic rights.
这条法律将剥夺我们最基本的权利.
He has been ill most of the term.
这学期大部分时间他一直生病.