3the massesPERSON/PEOPLEall the ordinary people in society who do not have power or influence 民众,平民
The trains provided cheap travel for the masses.
火车为大众提供了廉价的出行方式。
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the masses• Donald Reid Cabral took over, but he had almost no following among the masses.• Just as long, that is, as the masses do not mind interminabledelays.• The BeBox is not ready for the masses.• Lenin's position depended on the support of the masses.• Divorced from any clear patronage, westernartists were free to look inwards and to ignore the tastes of the masses.• By contrast, the large zebra lives on the masses of low quality stem material.• Henry Ford made automobilesaffordable to the masses.• Television has brought cheapentertainment to the masses.• The representatives of the middle classes were quite prepared to leave the movies to the masses.• Except on weekends, when the masses come to see them.• Whatever can not be shared with the masses is taboo to me.
4the mass of people/the population/workers etcPERSON/PEOPLEmost of the people in a group or society 人民/人口/工人等中的大多数SYN the majority
The war is strongly supported by the mass of the population.
这场战争得到了大多数人的有力支持。
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the mass of people/the population/workers etc• For the mass of the population, indeed, the shift of interest arguably went in the other direction.• Such feelings developed very much within the context of the lived experience of the mass of the population.
solid mass• The drainedcurd, now a solid mass, is turned out of the muslin and the really hard work of milling begins.• To the Gaijin rear Jotan's five hundred were a solid mass cutting off the line of retreat.• The hygroscopic mixture got damp; when the humidity went down again it caked into an intractablesolid mass.• Walls can be cut half-way down or at either side to form dividingslabs rather than solid masses.• It was wild, looking at the solid mass of people and then looking.
say/celebrate Mass• Having made that decision, he found he could once again say Mass.• Ask him to be so kind as to come here and say Masstomorrow morning.• One such malepriestconducted a ritual of purification of a church after a woman priest had celebrated Mass there.• Why tear the church apart sO you can see the priest say Mass?• Catholic community that celebrated Mass each Sunday in a chapel on the campus of Georgetown University.• I wasn't able to say Mass.• From about the twelfthcentury and until the Council, every priest was expected to say Mass separately each day.
mass2 ●●○W3adjectiveadj [only before noun]
PERSON/PEOPLEinvolving or intended for a very large number of people 民众的,群众的;大量的
a mass protest
大规模的抗议
weapons of mass destruction
大规模杀伤性武器
the problem of mass unemployment
大批人失业的问题
mass marketing/entertainment etc
a mass marketing campaign
大规模营销活动
Email has made mass mailings possible at the touch of a button.
mass marketing/entertainment etc• What had arrived now really was mass entertainment.• It provided a vocabulary for the mass marketing of hippies.• In the process it inventedmass entertainment, the 10-lanefreeway and smog.
mass3 verb [intransitiveI, transitiveT]
TOGETHERto come together, or to make people or things come together, in a large group (使)聚集,(使)集结,(使)集中SYN gather
mass (something) behind/along/in etc something
Western reports say that troops have been massing in the region since December.
西方的报道说自12月起军队就在这个地区集结了。
grey clouds massing behind the mountains
在群山之后积聚的灰色云团
Both countries have massed troops along the border.
两国都在边界一带集结了军队。
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mass• The animals which fought there gave little heed to defence; they massed around them and tried to engulf them.• Large numbers of women massedbehind a single women's rights issue.• Most of our archers were massing in the gatehouse, shooting at those trying to force an entry.• According to some reports both countries then began massingtroops in the region.
Originmass1
1. (1300-1400)Frenchmasse, from Latinmassa, from Greekmaza
2. (800-900)Vulgar Latinmissa“sending away at the end of a religious service”, from Latinmittere“to send”
1large amount/number of sth大量ADJECTIVE | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤enormous, great, huge, large, vast巨大的一團;龐大的一團▸➤broad大量;大宗;大多數◇Their policies appeal to the broad mass of the population.他們的政策受到廣大民眾的歡迎。➤shapeless無形的一堆◇When I washed the sweater, it just turned into a shapeless mass.這件毛衣我洗了以後就不成形了。➤compact, dense, solid密實的一堆;緊密的一團;結實的一塊➤land陸塊◇the first women to cross Antarctica's land mass on foot首次徒步穿越南極大陸的女性➤chaotic亂糟糟的一堆◇a chaotic mass of ideas亂糟糟的一堆想法➤swirling打旋的一團◇a swirling mass of shadows一團打着旋的影子➤tangled纏結不清的一團◇a tangled mass of hair一團亂髮PREPOSITION➤mass of一團⋯◇a dense mass of smoke一團濃煙➤masses of (informal) 大量的⋯◇There were masses of people at the concert.音樂會上人山人海。PHRASES➤the huddled masses, the unwashed masses (= large numbers of poor people)飢寒交迫的民眾;貧苦之眾◇the image of America with arms open wide to the world's huddled masses向全世界飢寒交迫的人們敞開懷抱的美國形象mass
noun²
2MassChristian ceremony基督教儀式ADJECTIVE | VERB + MASS | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤Catholic, requiem天主教/安魂彌撒➤midnight, Sunday午夜/主日彌撒VERB + MASS➤attend, go to, hear參加/去做/聆聽彌撒◇She never failed to attend Sunday Mass.她從未缺席主日彌撒。➤celebrate, offer, say主持彌撒;做彌撒◇The local priest celebrates Mass in the church.當地牧師在教堂主持彌撒。PREPOSITION➤mass for為⋯做的彌撒◇a requiem mass for the sailors who drowned為淹死的水手舉行的安魂彌撒mass
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3 (technical術語) quantity of material質量ADJECTIVE | VERB + MASSADJECTIVE➤atomic, molecular原子/分子質量➤body, bone, muscle身重;骨量;肌肉質量◇Calcium deficiency can lead to low bone mass in adolescent girls.鈣缺乏可能導致少女骨量低。➤critical足夠的數量◇The product has to be good enough to achieve a critical mass of customers. (figurative) 產品必須足夠好才能吸引到足夠數量的顧客。VERB + MASS➤measure測質量➤add, gain增加質量◇Bodybuilders trying to gain muscle mass eat a lot of protein.想要增加肌肉質量的健身者需要攝入大量蛋白質。
mass verb ⇨meet1mass noun ⇨general public (cheap transport for the masses)⇨pile (a mass of snow and rocks)⇨weight (the mass of a planet)mass adj. ⇨wide1