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grand-scale

/grand-skeyl/US // ˈgrændˈskeɪl //

大规模,大规模的,大尺度,规模宏大

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of large proportion, extent, magnitude, etc.: grand-scale efforts; a grand-scale approach.

Examples

  • A grand juror in the Ferguson case is suing to be able to explain exactly what went down in the courtroom.

  • The most recent activity had a high point of 3.6 on the Richter Scale.

  • Could the (thus far) timid trembling give way to a full-on, grand mal seizure?

  • The 2001 grand jury indictment named 21 suspects as being involved in the U.S. embassy bombings, including Osama bin Laden.

  • A grand jury investigated but found Foster had broken no law.

  • A tall phantom in livery appeared, as if by magic, and signed to me to ascend the grand staircase.

  • "Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.

  • On a small scale map, in an office, you may make mole-hills of mountains; on the ground there's no escaping from its features.

  • She was in a dream of oily odours and monstrous iron constructions, dominated by the grand foreman: and Edwin was in the dream.

  • Free discussion—never a very free thing in Russia—has now on any general scale become quite impossible.