mass

mass

英[mæs]美[ mæs]

n.一团，大堆，大量，块，民众，大部分，充满，质量，弥撒，弥撒曲；

adj.一大群的；

v.使聚集；

复数：masses;

第三人称单数：masses;

过去式：massed;

过去分词：massed;

现在分词：massing;

形容词：massed;

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a tangled mass of hair一团乱发

the nightmare scenario of mass unemployment大规模失业的可怕情景

There is a mass of sand in the yard.院里有一堆沙子。

Radio, television, newspapers and magazines are known as the mass media.广播、电视、报纸和杂志被称为大众传媒。

The grand mass rally was held on the square.广场上举行了盛大的群众集会。

Troops are mass-ing on the frontier.部队在边境集结。

Energy and mass are equal and interchangeable.能量与质量相等而又是可以互相转换的。

This particle has very small mass.这种粒子的质量很小。

There is a mass of stones in the yard.院子里堆放着一大堆石头。

The aircraft came down in flames, and the heat fused most of the parts together into a solid mass.飞机冒着火坠落了, 大多数部件因高温而熔成一团。

英语六级真题

They were the pioneers of gender equity, in their useful, adaptable clothing, which was both made for the masses and capable of self-expression.

What can be done about mass unemployment? All the wise heads agree: there're no quick or easy answers.

Such results may seem surprising against the background of shocking incidents that color the way the mass media portray the young.

And that, fundamentally, is why claims that we face huge structural problems have been multiplying: they offer a reason to do nothing about the mass unemployment that is crippling our economy and our society.

So, it is argued, stripping cartons of their branding will trigger no mass movement to quit.

For instance, new technologies that are building upon existing technology have not found their footing well enough to appeal to a mass audience, because, in many cases, they need to work effectively with other devices to realize their full appeal.

Once you have started the boulder rolling, it develops momentum, which is defined by its mass and velocity.

In terms of efficiency and cleanness, buses, trains and other form of public or mass transportation are superior to the private automobile.

For some people, mass transit might answer all transportation needs.

For others, a combination of mass transit and private transportation may be desirable.

Better design and wiseruser of both mass transit systems and private vehicles will playing an important part in helping America get more out of energy used fortransportation.

Mass layoffs and plant closings have drawn plenty of headlines and public debate over the years, and they still occasionally do.

help the broad masses of readers

Supporters of home education claim that it is less expensive and far more efficient than mass public education.

As a young man, he began walking over tens of thousands of miles during his lifetime, through the south to Florida, the west to California and north to Alaska, where readers are taken a long and particularly hair-raising adventure on a large mass of floating ice

Scientists agree that key player in this scenario is the West Antarctic ice sheet, a Brazil-size mass of frozen water that is much as 7000 feet thick.

For instance, new technologies that are building upon existing technology have not found their footing well enough to appeal to a mass audience, because, in many cases, they need to work effectively with other devices to realize their full appeal.

It is nearly identical to our own planet in bulk properties, such as mass, density and size.

It reflected the fact that these decades saw a climb in general standards of living and avoidance of mass societal traumas like foil-scale war or economic deprivation.

Note that Apple's public opposition to the government's request is itself a hindrance to mass government intrusion.

On the one side, you have the United States government's mighty legal and security apparatus fighting for data of the most sympathetic sort: the secrets buried in a dead mass murderer' phone.

Resurrection plants, defined as those capable of recovering from holding less than 0.1 grams of water per gram of dry mass, are different.

The founder of two tech companies, Tesla Motors and SpaceX, is bringing electric vehicles to mass market and enabling humans to live on other planets.

This is the story of wildlife conservation in the age of mass extinction.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-SING

(聚成一体的)一团，一堆,一块

A mass of things is a large number of them grouped together.

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N-SING

大堆;许多;大量

A mass of something is a large amount of it.

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QUANT

大量;许多;一大堆

Masses of something means a great deal of it.

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ADJ

一大群的;大批的

Mass is used to describe something which involves or affects a very large number of people.

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N-COUNT

(尤指无固定形状的)块，堆，团

A mass of a solid substance, a liquid, or a gas is an amount of it, especially a large amount which has no definite shape.

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N-PLURAL

（与领导或受过高等教育的人相对的）普通老百姓，民众，平民大众

If you talk about the masses, you mean the ordinary people in society, in contrast to the leaders or the highly educated people.

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N-SING

(民众中的)大部分，大多数

The mass of people are most of the people in a country, society, or group.

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N-COUNT

（人）一大群，一大堆

A mass of people is a large crowd of them.

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V-ERG

(使)聚集;(使)集中;(使)集结

When people or things mass, or when you mass them, they gather together into a large crowd or group.

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N-SING

充满;布满

If you say that something is a mass of things, you mean that it is covered with them or full of them.

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N-VAR

(物理学中的)质量

In physics, the mass of an object is the amount of physical matter that it has.

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N-VAR

弥撒(尤指天主教或东正教的圣餐仪式，以此纪念****的*后的晚餐)

Mass is a Christian church ceremony, especially in a Roman Catholic or Orthodox church, during which people eat bread and drink wine in order to remember the last meal of Jesus Christ.

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弥撒曲

A Mass is a piece of music which uses the prayers from the Christian ceremony of Mass as the words that are sung.

英汉词典释义

n.

(聚成一体的)团, 块, 堆, 群, 片

大量, 大批; 众多

[常作the masses]平民，群众，大批人群

【物理学】质量

大量的东西

大多数；多数

[Mass]【天主教】弥撒; 弥撒曲

体积，容积，大小，量

大多数，大部分，主要部分，主体

巨大的规模(或效果)

vt. & vi.

(使)集中; 聚集

adj.

许多的, 大量的, 大规模的, 群众的, 民众的，群众性的，普及的，普通的

总的，整个的

英英词典释义

Noun

1. the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field

2. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;

3. an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)

4. a body of matter without definite shape;

5. the common people generally;

6. the property of something that is great in magnitude;

Verb

1. join together into a mass or collect or form a mass;

Adjective

1. occurring widely (as to many people);

2. gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole;

行业词典

体育： 质量块；团；体；团体；

医学： 质，物质；块，丸块，团；质量；

哲学： 质量；

土木工程： 质量；

建筑： 体量；

旅游： 弥撒；

机械： 质荷比；mass-to-charge ratio 离子质量与电荷的比值，常用符号m/e表示。；

物理学： 质量衰减系数: mass-attenuation coefficient；质量数守恒: mass-number conservation；质能等价性: mass-energy equivalence；质能关系: mass-energy relation；