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 innumerable [ɪ'njumərəbl.]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 无数的, 数不清的



    innumerable
    [ adj ]
    too numerous to be counted
    <adj.all>
    incalculable richescountless hours
    an infinite number of reasons
    innumerable difficulties
    the multitudinous seas
    myriad stars
    untold thousands


    Innumerable \In*nu`mer*a*ble\, a. [L. innumerabilis : cf. F.
    innumefable. See {In-} not, and {Numerable}.]
    Not capable of being counted, enumerated, or numbered, for
    multitude; countless; numberless; unnumbered, hence,
    indefinitely numerous; of great number.

    Innumerable as the stars of night. --Milton.
    -- {In*nu"mer*a*ble*ness}, n. -- {In*nu"mer*a*bly}, adv.

    1. IBM made a religion of secrecy; almost everything about Silverlake was known before it was launched, through innumerable meetings with customers, the press and software developers.
    2. In the silent graves of innumerable past societies, the relics most eloquent about individual status and power are precisely those whose beauty has got the better of their functionality.
    3. Odds heavily favor Rep. Sharp, who has eight House staff employees working in three Indiana offices, sends four official mailings a year to all district voters and holds innumerable local meetings promoted by more official mailings.
    4. At the end of the act, after innumerable twists and turns of the plot, they have found it.
    5. She also had innumerable affairs with poets and actors in repeated attempts to slake her 'compulsive, feverish lust for life'.
    6. Bally alleges that on "innumerable occasions" Mr. Mullane used a corporate Canadair jet for personal travel, and made the company foot the bill for "personal and extravagant" hotel bills, travel expenses and meal charges for himself and companions.
    7. Last year, 24 years and innumerable Washington scandals later, the same survey group found the proportion reversed: 63% believed America is run by a government of the few and for the few, while 31% thought it is run for the greater good.
    8. "He had innumerable run-ins with the Pittsburgh strike force when he was U.S. attorney in the early 1970s and it left a bad taste in his mouth," says Douglas Roller, former strike force chief in Chicago.
    9. "The menu of lethality is very long," said Kuvin. "There are innumerable viral diseases.
    10. On innumerable occasions in the past, he has said he would never discuss political matters with the Contras.
    11. It also is a major landmark for the family foundation that has consistently given discreetly to innumerable projects in Israel.
    12. The Sixth Amendment "no more forbids the prosecutor to strike jurors on the basis of race than it forbids him to strike them on the basis of innumerable other generalized characteristics," he said.
    13. EDITOR'S NOTE - Toys are as old as civilization, perhaps older, and childhood playthings have inspired the careers of innumerable adults, many of them famous.
    14. It dredges up innumerable details of events so long-past that when punched into my unit it simply flashes "Will Not Compute."
    15. A walk through a grocery store or a drug store will quickly indicate that there are innumerable places where someone could insert poison.
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