masses
n. 民眾,勞動階層; 大量( mass的名詞複數 ); 大多數; [物理學]質量; 大量的東西
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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
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。
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。
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。
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。
A Mass is a piece of music which uses the prayers from the Christian ceremony of Mass as the words that are sung.
1. the common people generally;
group, crowd, gang, band, mob, throng, masses, swarm
這些名詞均含"群,幫,夥"之意。
people, masses, crowd, throng, mob
這些名詞均有"人們,人群"之意。
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。
It has masses of flowers each year.
它每年都開許多花。
The books were intended for the edification of the masses.
這些書旨在教化民眾。
The wealth comes from the toil of the masses.
財富來自大眾的辛勤勞動.
The vast masses there have become involved in the health campaign.
那裡的廣大群眾都參加了衛生運動.