mass的中文翻譯是什麼意思

N-SING(聚成一體的)一團，一堆,一塊

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

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

  他的書桌上有大堆的書籍和檔案。

N-SING大堆;許多;大量

A mass of something is a large amount of it.

• She had a mass of auburn hair.

  她有一頭濃密的棕發。

QUANT大量;許多;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.

  它每年都開許多花。

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...

  對付大量失業的點子

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

  所有的燈都熄滅了，大家都變得歇斯底里起來。

N-COUNT(尤指無固定形狀的)塊，堆，團

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...

  在它冷卻成為固態之前

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

  這座14世紀的大教堂變成了一堆瓦礫。

N-PLURAL（與領導或受過高等教育的人相對的）普通老百姓，民眾，平民大眾

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...

  他的音樂走商業化路線，針對的是一般大眾。

• This issue has aroused much resentment among the masses.

  這個問題在民眾中間引起了強烈的不滿。

N-SING(民眾中的)大部分，大多數

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年間的世界大戰使大多數民眾捲入其中。

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

  學校允許大部分考試成績差的學生16歲時畢業離校。

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.

  情緒激動的人群擠滿了街道。

• ...a mass of grinning teenage faces.

  一張張少年的笑臉

V-ERG(使)聚集;(使)集中;(使)集結

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...

  工人們罷工後不久，警察就開始在船廠集結。

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

  雲捲雲舒隨風起。

N-SING充滿;佈滿

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...

  他遍體鱗傷。

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

  春天，草地上開滿了黃水仙。

N-VAR(物理學中的)質量

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.

  天文學家知道冥王星與海衛一擁有幾乎相同的體積、質量與密度。

N-VAR彌撒(尤指天主教或東正教的聖餐儀式，以此紀念耶穌基督的最後的晚餐)

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.

  她上的是教會學校，每天都去做彌撒。

N-COUNT彌撒曲

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