marvellous

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mar·vel·lous British EnglishBrE, marvelous American English /ˈmɑːvələs $ ˈmɑːr-/ S3 adjectiveadj

GOOD/EXCELLENTextremely good, enjoyable, impressive etc 极好的，绝妙的；了不起的 SYN wonderful

‘How was your holiday?’ ‘Marvellous!’

“假期过得好吗？”“好极了！”

We had a marvellous time.

我们度过了美好的时光。

I can’t stand him, but my wife thinks he’s marvellous.

我受不了他，但我的妻子认为他很了不起。

It’s marvellous what they can do these days.

他们现在真有本事。

—marvellously adverbadv

Examples from the Corpus

marvellous• Its foliage is pleasing and the seed pods are marvellous.• The bees think they're marvellous.• There are lots of galleries and museums and marvellous churches and castles.• How marvellous it was to hear him say that.• This is where that marvellous rag-bag of feeling we relieve through our tears comes to our aid.• Now, all kinds of marvellous technologies are used to read the message of the nucleic acids.• Anyway, they were marvellous, they couldn't do enough for you.

It’s marvellous• If he can be found ... Female speaker It's marvellous.• It's a triumph for integrity. It's marvellous for all of us.• Male speaker It's marvellous to hold a first telephone conversation for many years.He would like one himself.

mar·vel·lous adjectiveadj

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