Word familynounexpandabilityexpanderexpanseexpansibilityexpansionexpansionismexpansionistexpansivenessexpansivityadjectiveexpandableexpandedexpansibleexpansileexpansionalexpansionaryexpansionisticexpansiveadverbexpansiblyexpansivelyverbexpand
AREAa very large area of water, sky, land etc 宽广的空间
expanse of
an expanse of blue sky
广阔的蓝天
vast/wide/large etc expanse
the vast expanse of the ocean
一望无际的海洋
Examples from the Corpus
expanse• The Pequod moves softly through the blue expanse.• We traveled across a broadexpanse of desert.• If we live on continents, we tend to see the world as land inconveniently dissected by expanses of water.• Across the rooftops, a lonecopprowler was the only thing moving on the cold expanse of the GrandCanal.• A man climbed to the top and gazed helplessly at the curvedexpanse of the copper-sheathed dome.• Sand-covered wooden steps hug a large man-madesanddunebuffer, delivering us on to a vastexpanse of palebeach.• He had not been here before and he was alarmed by the vast expanse of water that now stretched ahead of him.
ADJECTIVE | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤broad, endless, great, huge, infinite, large, limitless, long, vast, wide廣闊的區域;一望無際的區域;巨大的區域;很長的區域;遼闊的區域;寬廣的區域◇a vast expanse of sand大片沙灘➤unbroken連成一大片的區域▸➤barren, bleak, desolate, empty貧瘠的地域;荒涼的區域;空曠的地域◇a bleak expanse of concrete一片光禿禿的混凝土建築區➤flat平坦的地域◇She stood looking out over the flat expanse of fields.她站在那裏遙望開闊而平坦的田野。➤open空曠的空間➤grassy, treeless大片草地;沒有樹木的地域➤blue, green, grey/gray, white碧藍的/綠油油的/灰濛濛的/白茫茫的大片地區◇the white expanses of the frozen north北方白茫茫的冰封原野➤shining閃亮的一片◇the desk's shining expanse of polished wood亮閃閃的拋光木質桌面PREPOSITION➤expanse of⋯的區域