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词根:profuse
adj.profuse 丰富的;很多的;慷慨的;浪费的
profligate 放荡的,不检点的;恣意挥霍的
adv.profusely 丰富地
n.profusion 丰富,充沛;慷慨
profligate 放荡者;享乐者
profligacy 肆意挥霍;放荡;浪费
"the profusion of detail"
"the idiomatic richness of English"
Middle English, from Latin profusus, past participle of profundere to pour forth, from pro- forth + fundere to pour — more at found
The first known use of profuse was in the 15th century
prognosisnoun
the prospect of recovery of an individual who has a disease based on the usual course of the disease and the characteristics of the individual who is sick
forecast entry 2
progesteronenoun
a hormone that is produced by the corpus luteum and causes the uterus to change so that it provides a suitable environment for a fertilized egg
progenynoun
human descendants : children
offspring of animals or plants
profusionnoun
a plentiful supply : great quantity
lilacs blooming in profusion
profuseadjective
pouring forth in great amounts profuse in their thanks
profuse apologies
very plentiful a profuse variety of minerals
a profuse harvest
1 The profuseness of his thanks was embarrassing.
他再三表示感谢使人很不好意思。
2 Englishmen of all classes were hopelessly dirty in their habits; even till the sixteenth century they were noted above other countries for the profuseness of their diet and their unclean ways.
3 The culprit had a little log hut on the banks of the Guyandotte River, and was dealing it out with a profuseness entirely unwarranted.
4 There it falls in full profuseness, reaching to the hips, and in the case of some mingling with the tails, of their horses.
5 Material transformation is fundamental to ceramics, but what Yasunaga does with clay, glaze, ash and glass is radically inventive as well as profuse in metaphorical resonance.
6 So the Reformation, in destroying the traditional order, intended to secure truth, spontaneity, and profuseness of religious forms; the danger of course being that each form might become meagre and the sum of them chaotic.
7 The type of day where a profuseness of fallen leaves -- although majestic -- makes finding one's Titleist a pain in the behind.
8 Nothing can have a greater tendency to clog and destroy the native activity of the mind, than the profuseness with which the memory of children is loaded, by nurses, by mothers, by masters.
9 The profuseness of his expenditure was very offensive to the Dutch notions of respectability in matters of private finance, and injurious to the existing state of the public means.
10 To a certain carelessness of riches he added a certain profuseness of expenditure; and indulgent towards his own pleasures, towards others, his equals or dependents, he bore himself with a spirit of kindness and magnanimity.
11 His profuseness may bribe the unthinking multitude to show him respect; but he must know that, though "Places and honors have been bought for gold, Esteem and love were never to be sold."
12 When these have wealth their hospitality is too apt to take the place of a spendthrift profuseness, ending in pecuniary embarrassment.
13 My dear friends, girls—modest, rosy, bright-eyed school-girls, such as you are a-thinking of—are scarce as hen's teeth in this great city, and not to be found in profuseness anywhere.
14 And she commenced to experience, too, the greatest difficulty in restraining a dewy profuseness that would arise and cloud her sight.
15 He could not but be struck with the beauty of the nymphs, he could not but be surprised with the profuseness of the entertainment, and the richness of the preparations.
16 Neither owed aught to the adornment of art; but to both had nature been liberal, even to profuseness.
17 In thy apparel avoid singularity, profuseness, and gaudiness.
18 A profuse and corrupt monarch, whose profuseness and corruption were imitated by almost every functionary, from the highest to the lowest grade, had brought France to the verge of ruin.
19 It may not seem credible, yet parsimony appears in the midst of their profuseness: but then it is very ill placed, for it is in crumbs, bones, and crusts.
20 We have only a word to say as to the illustrations, as they are called, a mistaken profuseness in which disfigures both Dictionaries, another evil result of bookselling competition.
1 大量
heavy fat massive extensive generous covered hefty plentiful lavish lousy copious opulent voluminous profuse multitudinous plenteous swingeing substantially bit mile load mountain volume Mass pot wealth flood ton pile bucket heap slew plurality bags scads oodles lot plenty much without stint in profusion so much a good deal in force in bulk in strength oceans of no end of
2 丰富
full rich generous abundant plentiful lavish mellow affluent copious opulent bountiful profuse bounteous plenteous abundantly wealth abundance fertility amplitude affluence luxuriance in profusion in plenty
3 量多
4 充沛