greater
['greitə]
adj. 大的, 包括市区及郊区的
例句与用法:
Some people have a greater capacity for happiness than others.
有的人享得起福,有的人享不起福。
Such action can be justified on the grounds of greater efficiency.
以提高功效为依据可以证明采取这种措施是正确的。
May our two parties achieve even greater successes in our business.
祝我们双方在生意中取得更大的成功。
The higher up, the greater the fall.
[谚]爬得越高,跌得越重。
The more riches a fool hath, the greater fool he is.
傻瓜越富越蠢。
He works with greater devotion.
他工作得更专心了。
I hoped my warning would stimulate her to greater efforts.
我希望我的告诫会促使她作出更大的努力。
We are considering giving them greater say in such matters.
我们正考虑在这样的事情上给他们更多的发言权。
词形变化:
动词过去式: greatened |
动词过去分词: greatened |
动词现在分词: greatening |
动词第三人称单数: greatens |
greater
形容词 greater:
greater in size or importance or degree
形容词 great:
relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
同义词:great
of major significance or importance
同义词:great, outstanding
remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect
同义词:great
very good
同义词:bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing
uppercase
同义词:capital, great, majuscule
marked by active interest and enthusiasm
同义词:avid, great, eager, zealous
in an advanced stage of pregnancy
同义词:big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, large, heavy, with child
greater
■The higher up, the greater the fall.
[谚]爬得越高,跌得越重。
■Despair is a greater deceiver than hope.
与希望相比,绝望是更大的骗子。
■The great virtue of air travel is speed.
乘飞机旅行的最大优点是速度快。
■It has proved of great assistance in such training.
事实证明,在这类训练中,它很有好处。
■All in all it had been a great success.
从各方面来说,那都是极大的成功。
■He made a great fortune by fair means or foul.
他不择手段地发了一笔大财。
■He kicked about a great deal before settling down.
他东奔西走了好久才定居下来。
■He is proud of his great success in scientific researches.
他为自己在科研方面所取得的巨大成就而自豪。
■He has extracted a great many examples from the grammar book.
他从那本文法书中引用了许多例子。
■They meet with great regularity.
他们定期会面。
■They show great anxiety concerning their retirement allowance.
他们对自己的养老金问题显得十分焦虑。
■Some of them developed a great inferiority complex.
他们有些人养成了严重的自卑感。
■He wrote poems in praise of our great socialist motherland.
他写诗歌颂我们伟大的社会主义祖国。
■He has had great success in life.
他在一生中飞黄腾达。
■He showed great composure in difficult situations.
他在困难环境中表现得极沉着。
■He got a great deal of kudos for his work at the university.
他在大学里贡献良多,得到许多荣誉。
■He display a great deal of artifice in decorate his new house.
他在布置新房子中表现出富有技巧。
■He showed great courage in battle.
他在战斗中表现得十分勇敢。
■He played the man in the time of great trouble.
他在极为困难的时候显示出男子汉的气概。
■In his youth, he had shown great promise.
他在青少年时代就显得很有出息。
■He was in a state of great agitation.
他处于异常焦虑的状态。
■He is slow to learn, but shows great perseverance.
他学得慢,但是他表现出不屈不挠的毅力。
■He felt great enmity towards his brother.
他对他弟弟满怀敌意。
■He shows great assiduity in all his work.
他对所有工作都兢兢业业。
■He evinced great sorrow for what he had done.
他对自己的所作所为深表歉疚。
■He will go down in history as a great statesman.
他将作为伟大的政治家而载入史册。
■He has a great respect for his father.
他很敬佩他的父亲。
■He has great talent, but he has lost his faith.
他很有天赋,但是他已经丧失了信心。
■He felt great affection for his sister.
他很疼他的妹妹。
■He had to pay a walloping (great) fine.
他得付一(大)笔罚款。
■He is possessed of great wealth.
他拥有巨大的财富。
■His early career was not a great success.
他早期的生涯并不很成功。
■He is a man of great resolution.
他是一个极其果断的人。
■He is a great guy, a chip off the old block.
他是一位好人,就像他父亲一样。
■He is a child of great intellect.
他是个极具聪明才智的男孩。
■He took great exception to what I said.
他极力反对我的话。
■His mother's death was a great shock to him.
他母亲之死对他精神上打击很大。
■He attained to a very great age.
他活到了很大年纪。
■He speaks to us with great fervor.
他热情洋溢地对我们说。
■His parents have great expectations for his future.
他父母对他的前途深寄厚望。
■He put his great foot on the flowerbed.
他的大脚踩在花坛上。
■The greater part of his fortune was settled on his3 sons.
他的大部分财产授给了3个儿子。
■His failure was a great surprise to us.
他的失败使我们感到意外。
■His wild behavior was a great distress to his mother.
他的放荡的行为使他的母亲极为苦恼。
■His new book was a great success.
他的新书获得了巨大的成功。
■He takes great delight in proving others wrong.
他的极大乐趣是证实别人错了。
■His father placed great hopes on [in] him.
他的父亲对他寄于很大希望。
■His work obtained him great fame.
他的研究工作使他博得盛名。
■He seemed to be in a great hurry.
他看起来很匆忙的样子。
■He is capable of great villainies.
他能干出极坏的事情。