masses

漢語翻譯

詞意辨析：

people, masses, crowd, throng, mob

這些名詞均有“人們、人群”之意。
people: 最普通用詞，不帶任何色彩，泛指不確定數量的人們。
masses: 指民眾或平民，在西方國家含貶義，在我國含褒義。
crowd: 本義指一大群緊緊聚集在一起的人，現指民眾整體，由個體結合的人群或大眾。
throng: 與crowd含義很接近，常可換用，但側重指向前運動的民眾。
mob: 含貶義，指烏合之眾、暴民。

英文解釋：

名詞 masses:

1. the common people generally
   同義詞：multitude, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed

名詞 mass:

1. the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
   同義詞：mass
2. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
   同義詞：batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew
3. an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
   同義詞：mass
4. (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist
   同義詞：Mass
5. a body of matter without definite shape
   同義詞：mass
6. the common people generally
   同義詞：multitude, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed
7. the property of something that is great in magnitude
   同義詞：bulk, mass, volume
8. a musical setting for a Mass
   同義詞：Mass
9. a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite
   同義詞：Mass

名詞 masse:

1. a shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically; the cue ball spins around another ball before hitting the object ball
   同義詞：masse, masse shot

動詞 mass:

1. join together into a mass or collect or form a mass
   同義詞：mass

例句：

1. There were masses of dark clouds in the sky.
   天上有朵朵烏雲。
2. It is during these seasons that the differences in temperature between warm and cold masses of air are greatest.
   就在這些季節里，熱氣團與冷氣團的溫差最大。
3. The hunger, cold and misery then pervading Russia had reached the point of exasperating the masses and making them ripe for revolution.
   當時飢餓、寒冷、苦難籠罩著俄國，這些使得民眾激憤，革命的時機成熟了。
4. She enjoyed high prestige among the masses.
   她在民眾中享有很高威信。
5. Government by the masses; mob rule.
   由民眾統治; 暴民政治
6. Of or associated with the great masses of people; common.
   平民的，普通的大眾人民的，與大眾人民有關的; 普通的