英汉词典

mass 基本解释

• n. 块，团；群众，民众；大量，众多；质量
• adj. 群众的，民众的；大规模的，集中的
• vi. 聚集起来，聚集
• vt. 使集合

mass 词态变化

mass 中文词源

来自拉丁语missa,解散，遣散，词源同mission,emit.宗教词义弥撒来自弥撒仪式后的解散语”Ite,missa est”,即走吧，解散了，ite,走，离开，词源同exit,missa,解散，词源同emit,est,是，词源同is,essence.

来自拉丁语massa,大块，面团，来自PIE*mag,揉，捏，词源同make,massage.引申词义团，块，堆，以及用于物理学术语物质质量，原子质量等。

mass 英文词源

mass

mass: English has two distinct words mass. The one meaning ‘Eucharist’ [OE] comes from late Latin missa, a noun use of the feminine past participle of mittere ‘send’ (source of English admit, commit, dismiss, mission, etc) possibly arising from Ite, missa est ‘Go, it is the dismissal’, the last words of the Latin Eucharist service. Mass ‘amount of matter’ [14] comes via Old French masse and Latin massa from Greek maza ‘barley cake’, hence ‘lump, mass’.

The derivative massive [15] goes back ultimately to Vulgar Latin *massīceus. A possible relative is massage [19], a borrowing from French. It was a derivative of masser ‘massage’, which may have been acquired from Portuguese amassar ‘knead’, a verb based on massa ‘mass, dough’.
=> admit, commit, dismiss, mission, transmit; massage, massive

mass (v.)

"to gather in a mass" (intransitive), 1560s, from mass (n.1) or from French masser. Transitive sense by c. 1600. Related: Massed; massing.

mass (n.1)

"lump, quantity, size," late 14c., from Old French masse "lump, heap, pile; crowd, large amount; ingot, bar" (11c.), and directly from Latin massa "kneaded dough, lump, that which adheres together like dough," probably from Greek maza "barley cake, lump, mass, ball," related to massein "to knead," from PIE root *mag- "to knead" (source of Lithuanian minkyti "to knead," see macerate). Sense extended in English 1580s to "a large quantity, amount, or number." Strict sense in physics is from 1704.

As an adjective from 1733, first attested in mass meeting in American English. mass culture is from 1916 in sociology (earlier in biology); mass hysteria is from 1914; mass media is from 1923; mass movement is from 1897; mass production is from 1920; mass grave is from 1918; mass murder from 1880.

mass (n.2)

"Eucharistic service," Old English mæsse, from Vulgar Latin *messa "eucharistic service," literally "dismissal," from Late Latin missa "dismissal," fem. past participle of mittere "to let go, send" (see mission); probably so called from the concluding words of the service, Ite, missa est, "Go, (the prayer) has been sent," or "Go, it is the dismissal." Sometimes glossed in Old English as sendnes "send-ness."

mass 词组搭配

mass 英文释义

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;

"a batch of letters"

"a deal of trouble"

"a lot of money"

"he made a mint on the stock market"

"it must have cost plenty"

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

4. a body of matter without definite shape;

"a huge ice mass"

5. the common people generally;

"separate the warriors from the mass"

"power to the people"

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

"it is cheaper to buy it in bulk"

"he received a mass of correspondence"

"the volume of exports"

mass 双语例句

1. On his desk is a mass of books and papers.

他的书桌上有大堆的书籍和文件。

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2. In the spring, the meadow is a mass of daffodils.

春天，草地上开满了黄水仙。

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3. Pope John Paul celebrated mass today in a city in central Poland.

教皇保罗二世今天在波兰中部的一个城市主持了弥撒。

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4. Only with mass direct action will we obtain such change.

只有采取大规模直接行动，我们才会取得这样的改变。

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5. The 1939-45 world war involved the mass of the population.

1939至1945年间的世界大战使大多数民众卷入其中。

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mass 实用场景例句

a mass of snow and rocks falling down the mountain

从山上滚下来的一堆积雪和石块

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The hill appeared as a black mass in the distance.

远远地看去，那座山是黑魆魆一片。

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The sky was full of dark masses of clouds.

天空中乌云密布。

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a mass of blonde hair

一头金发

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I began sifting through the mass of evidence.

我开始认真筛选大量的证据。

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I struggled through the mass of people to the exit.

我在人群里挤来挤去，挤到了出口处。

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The page was covered with a mass of figures.

纸上写满了密密麻麻的数字。

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There were masses of people in the shops yesterday.

昨天商店里人如潮涌。

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I've got masses of work to do.

我有一大堆的工作要做。

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Don't give me any more. I've eaten masses!

别再给我了，我已经吃了很多了！

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On his desk is a mass of books and papers.

他的书桌上有大堆的书籍和文件。

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She had a mass of auburn hair.

她有一头浓密的棕发。

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There's masses of work for her to do...

她有一大堆的工作要做。

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It has masses of flowers each year.

它每年都开许多花。

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...ideas on combating mass unemployment...

对付大量失业的点子

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All the lights went off, and mass hysteria broke out.

所有的灯都熄灭了，大家都变得歇斯底里起来。

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...before it cools and sets into a solid mass...

在它冷却成为固态之前

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The fourteenth century cathedral was reduced to a mass of rubble.

这座14世纪的大教堂变成了一堆瓦砾。

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His music is commercial. It is aimed at the masses...

他的音乐走商业化路线，针对的是一般大众。

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This issue has aroused much resentment among the masses.

这个问题在民众中间引起了强烈的不满。

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The 1939-45 world war involved the mass of the population...

1939至1945年间的世界大战使大多数民众卷入其中。

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Schools allowed the mass of children to leave school at 16 with poor qualifications.

学校允许大部分考试成绩差的学生16岁时毕业离校。

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...masses of excited people clogged the streets.

情绪激动的人群挤满了街道。

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...a mass of grinning teenage faces.

一张张少年的笑脸

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Shortly after the workers went on strike, police began to mass at the shipyard...

工人们罢工后不久，警察就开始在船厂集结。

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The clouds massed, whipped up by the wind...

云卷云舒随风起。

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His body was a mass of sores...

他遍体鳞伤。

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In the spring, the meadow is a mass of daffodils.

春天，草地上开满了黄水仙。

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Astronomers know that Pluto and Triton have nearly the same size, mass, and density.

天文学家知道冥王星与海卫一拥有几乎相同的体积、质量与密度。

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She attended a convent school and went to Mass each day.

她上的是教会学校，每天都去做弥撒。

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