grandest

英 [ˈgrændɪst]

美 [ˈgrændəst]

adj.  壮丽的; 堂皇的; 重大的; (用于大建筑物等的名称)大; 宏大的; 宏伟的; 有气派的
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柯林斯词典

The form grand is used as the plural for meaning 8. 义项8的复数形式为grand。


• ADJ-GRADED 宏伟的；壮丽的；富丽堂皇的
  If you describe a building or a piece of scenery asgrand, you mean that its size or appearance is very impressive.
  1. ...this grand building in the center of town...
     这幢位于市中心的宏伟建筑
  2. The scenery of South Island is on a grand scale.
     南岛风光壮观秀丽。
• ADJ-GRADED （计划等）宏伟的，宏大的
  Grandplans or actions are intended to achieve important results.
  1. Critics will point to other grand schemes that have gone less well, such as Sheffield's World Student Games disaster...
     批评家将会指出其他一些并不成功的大项目，比如谢菲尔德世界大学生运动会这一败笔。
  2. The grand design of Europe's monetary union is already agreed.
     欧洲统一货币的宏伟构想已经获得认同。
• ADJ-GRADED 牛气的；不可一世的
  People who aregrandthink they are important or socially superior.
  1. He is grander and even richer than the Prince of Wales...
     他比威尔士亲王还牛气，甚至更有钱。
  2. The Duke of Clarence will be there, and many of your grander friends.
     克拉伦斯公爵将会到场，还有你许多牛不可及的朋友亦将出席。
• ADJ 快乐的；令人非常愉快的
  If you describe an activity or experience asgrand, you mean that it is very pleasant and enjoyable.
  1. Few museums could rival the Old Royal Observatory at Greenwich for a grand day out...
     若想找个地儿开心地逛一天，没有哪家博物馆能比得上格林尼治皇家天文台。
  2. The dinner was a grand success...
     晚宴办得十分成功。
  3. He was having a grand time meeting new sorts of people.
     结识形形色色的人让他很开心。
• ADJ-GRADED 了不起的；出色的；极好的
  You can describe someone or something asgrandwhen you admire or approve of them very much.
  1. He was a grand bloke.
     他非常了不起。
• ADJ 总括的
  Agrandtotal is one that is the final amount or the final result of a calculation.
  1. It came to a grand total of £20,329.
     总计20,329英镑。
• ADJ （常用于大型建筑物的名称前）大的
  Grandis often used in the names of buildings such as hotels, especially when they are very large.
  1. They stayed at The Grand Hotel, Budapest.
     他们住在布达佩斯大饭店。
• N-COUNT 一千美元（或英镑）
  Agrandis a thousand dollars or a thousand pounds.
  1. They're paying you ten grand now for those adaptations of old plays.
     他们打算付你一万美元作为改编老剧本的报酬。
• 同grand piano
  Agrandis the same as agrand piano.
• See also:grandly

双语例句

• They had built a big dam on the Dunajec just below its junction with the bialka, turning its grandest stretches into a dull reservoir.
  他们在dunajec与bialka交汇处下方修建了一座大坝，将最壮观的河段变成了一座沉闷的水库。
• That is exactly how New York looks alike when it is still a virgin territory& not the grandest metropolis right now.
  在纽约还是一块处女地的时候就是如此。而如今，它是全世界最大的城市。
• But these days the region's grandest sight is man-made: the Baling River Bridge.
  但是，最近该地区最引人瞩目的景观是人造的霸陵河大桥。
• In the grandest irony of all, the greatest benefit of an everyday, utilitarian AI will not be increased productivity or an economics of abundance or a new way of doing science& although all those will happen.
  在这之中最为讽刺的是，我们每日接触的实用性人工智能产品所带来的最大益处，不在于提高产能、扩充经济或是带来一种新的科研方式&尽管这些都会发生。
• Grandest of all laws is the law of development.
  一切法则之中，至高无上的是进步发展的法则。
• That was all about preventing untimely deaths on the grandest scale possible.
  它的所有含意是在尽可能大的范围内预防不合时宜的死亡。
• Denying the nature of the cells is useless; and those that believe that they exist in love and light are in a delusion of the grandest order.
  否认细胞的这些性质是没有用的，那些相信自己生活在爱与光明中的人们，只是生活在一个最大的错觉当中。
• Midsummer festival on June24th should be the grandest festival besides Christmas Eve in Sweden.
  6月24日的仲夏节应该是除了圣诞节以外在瑞典最为隆重的节日。
• All around us companies and institutions are going wrong, including many of the world's largest and grandest.
  我们周围所有的企业和机构包括许多世界上最大、最重要的公司都出了问题。
• The grandest of the trails is the "Mini Great Wall", in southeast Cheung Chau.
  在长洲的东南方，最主要的路径是“小长城”。