It was a great loss to us all. 这对我们所有人来说都是一个巨大的损失。
He is a great talker. 他是一个非常健谈的人。
What a great idea! 好主意!
great
[ noun ]
a person who has achieved distinction and honor in some field
<noun.person> he is one of the greats of American music [ adj ]
relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
<adj.all> a great juicy steak a great multitude the great auk a great old oak a great ocean liner a great delay
of major significance or importance
<adj.all> a great work of art Einstein was one of the outstanding figures of the 20th centurey
remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect
<adj.all> a great crisis had a great stake in the outcome
very good
<adj.all> he did a bully job a neat sports car had a great time at the party you look simply smashing
uppercase
<adj.all> capital A great A many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script
in an advanced stage of pregnancy
<adj.all> was big with child was great with child
Great \Great\ (gr[=a]t), a. [Compar. {Greater}; superl. {Greatest}.] [OE. gret, great, AS. gre['a]t; akin to OS. & LG. gr[=o]t, D. groot, OHG. gr[=o]z, G. gross. Cf. {Groat} the coin.] 1. Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to {small} and {little}; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length.
2. Large in number; numerous; as, a great company, multitude, series, etc.
3. Long continued; lengthened in duration; prolonged in time; as, a great while; a great interval.
4. Superior; admirable; commanding; -- applied to thoughts, actions, and feelings.
5. Endowed with extraordinary powers; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; strong; powerful; mighty; noble; as, a great hero, scholar, genius, philosopher, etc.
6. Holding a chief position; elevated: lofty: eminent; distinguished; foremost; principal; as, great men; the great seal; the great marshal, etc.
He doth object I am too great of birth. --Shak.
7. Entitled to earnest consideration; weighty; important; as, a great argument, truth, or principle.
8. Pregnant; big (with young).
The ewes great with young. --Ps. lxxviii. 71.
9. More than ordinary in degree; very considerable in degree; as, to use great caution; to be in great pain.
We have all Great cause to give great thanks. --Shak.
10. (Genealogy) Older, younger, or more remote, by single generation; -- often used before grand to indicate one degree more remote in the direct line of descent; as, great-grandfather (a grandfather's or a grandmother's father), great-grandson, etc.
{Great bear} (Astron.), the constellation Ursa Major.
{Great cattle} (Law), all manner of cattle except sheep and yearlings. --Wharton.
{Great charter} (Eng. Hist.), Magna Charta.
{Great circle of a sphere}, a circle the plane of which passes through the center of the sphere.
{Great circle sailing}, the process or art of conducting a ship on a great circle of the globe or on the shortest arc between two places.
{Great go}, the final examination for a degree at the University of Oxford, England; -- called also {greats}. --T. Hughes.
{Great guns}. (Naut.) See under Gun.
{The Great Lakes} the large fresh-water lakes (Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario) which lie on the northern borders of the United States.
{Great master}. Same as {Grand master}, under {Grand}.
{Great organ} (Mus.), the largest and loudest of the three parts of a grand organ (the others being the choir organ and the swell, and sometimes the pedal organ or foot keys), It is played upon by a separate keyboard, which has the middle position.
{The great powers} (of Europe), in modern diplomacy, Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Russia, and Italy.
{Great primer}. See under {Type}.
{Great scale} (Mus.), the complete scale; -- employed to designate the entire series of musical sounds from lowest to highest.
{Great sea}, the Mediterranean sea. In Chaucer both the Black and the Mediterranean seas are so called.
{Great seal}. (a) The principal seal of a kingdom or state. (b) In Great Britain, the lord chancellor (who is custodian of this seal); also, his office.
{Great tithes}. See under Tithes.
{The great}, the eminent, distinguished, or powerful.
{The Great Spirit}, among the North American Indians, their chief or principal deity.
{To be great} (with one), to be intimate or familiar (with him). --Bacon.
Great \Great\, n. The whole; the gross; as, a contract to build a ship by the great.
A great German classic? Pandora's Box (Tartan Video).
He has done me a great, great favor and I would like to return the compliment."
He has done me a great, great favor and I would like to return the compliment."
'Instead, they are doing a great deal of research, looking for tactical offers and promotions which may be available.' But trading down by executives is not all gloom for the travel industry.
But the foreign and domestic challenges facing the United States remain as great as ever.
But there is great skepticism about the measures enacted so far.
"The burden on a publisher to avoid liability from suits of this type is too great," Davis wrote.
She acknowledges that there is some unwillingness among banks to lend but says there isn't any great clamor from consumers and businesses to borrow, either.
There was Michael Kirwan, a great appropriator who pushed for an aquarium in Washington because fish struck him as quiet and peaceful, a good influence in the capital.
"It's such a great opportunity to make music and travel in the United States and travel in Russia," says Caroline Coade, 20, of San Diego, Calif.
The second cause is that calorific intake is too great.
"It's great to be back," he shouted over the wild applause and standing ovation that embraced him at the final curtain.
Citing security precautions, Defense Department officials have gone to great lengths to conceal the exact location of the approximately 230,000 U.S. troops stationed in and around Saudi Arabia.
The monument is a great rough granite shaft rising from a mound in the middle of a tawny clearing.
He once characterized his disagreements with Charles and David as business disputes and said he has "a great deal of respect" for his brothers.
What he had called them about, it quickly transpired, was a great chance to make some easy bucks in Allis-Chalmers stock.
But their migration from country to city constitutes a great personal improvement in life style and a high measure of contentment.
"Progressive" income taxation was being carried to great lengths.
Life's great." Here are the winning weekly state lottery numbers picked Wednesday: Wednesday Megabucks: 06; 14; 19; 26; 33; 34.
Zoran is the more exotic American equivalent, available at Browns in London, and English Eccentrics has had a great success with its classical motif devore chiffon and velvet. Evening transparency need not be expensive.
But I'm already facing up to the irreversibility of the aging process." Porizkova said she's learned to "sew great curtains, paint, build dollhouses, act and write."
This might well be the year that the power of prayer is overcome by the power of politics: observers agree that outrage over conditions at Bethel has been so great that the Legislature might be forced to act.
Mr Peskin may feel he has made a great sacrifice.
The outstanding question, he said, is how great a role a driver's place of residence will continue to play in rate-setting.
Feb. 1 The Flint (Mich.) Journal on the State of the Union: East Europe's great Freedom Revolution of 1989 has shredded the Iron Curtain and continues to bring down walls of communist repression.
For the one great lesson of the war is that the conventional defense of Europe is inadequate and that, therefore, the nuclear threshold is unacceptably low.
Donovan's life work is art usually seen at a great distance in a fleeting glance from a car window.
The FBI went to great lengths in 1987 to lure convicted hijacker Fawaz Younis to a yacht in international waters off Cyprus to arrest him for leading a 1985 hijacking of a Jordanian airliner carrying several U.S. citizens.
The great majority of Bosnian Serbs had boycotted the referendum on independence.
Always, Dr. King was a great inspiration to all of us." Forty-three percent of imported aerosol cosmetics contained chlorofluorocarbon compounds banned as propellants by the United States 10 years ago, the Customs Service said Monday.