sheer
adv. 完全地,全然; 垂直地,陡峭地
adj. 完全的,全然的; 極薄的; 陡峭的; 絕對的
You can use sheer to emphasize that a state or situation is complete and does not involve or is not mixed with anything else.
His music is sheer delight...
聽他的音樂完全是一種享受。
Sheer chance quite often plays an important part in sparking off an idea.
靈感的激發通常純粹是靠運氣。
A sheer cliff or drop is extremely steep or completely vertical.
There was a sheer drop just outside my window...
陡坡就在我窗戶外面。
A young man plunged from a sheer rock face to his death.
一名男青年從陡峭的巖壁上墜崖身亡。
Sheer material is very thin, light, and delicate.
...sheer black tights.
極薄的黑色緊身褲
1. turn sharply; change direction abruptly;
2. cause to sheer;
1. complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers;
2. not mixed with extraneous elements;
3. very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front;
4. so thin as to transmit light;
1. straight up or down without a break
2. directly;
steep, abrupt, sheer
這些形容詞均含"陡峭的,險峻的"之意。
Out of sheer boredom I would pick up a book and read on and on.
在百無聊賴中,隨手抓過一本書來,讀下去.
She managed to stop smoking by sheer willpower.
她全靠意志力戒了煙.
It is sheer madness to do it.
做這種事實在愚不可及.
The waterfall makes a sheer drop of one thousand feet.
瀑布從一千英尺的高處直瀉而下.
At the end of the film, the man becomes a thief out of sheer desperation.
在電影的結尾, 這個人由於徹底絕望而成了小偷.