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greater

/grey-ter/US // ˈgreɪ tər //UK // (ˈɡreɪtə) //

更大,更多,更大的,更多的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : designating a city or country and its adjacent area: Greater New York; Greater Los Angeles.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • The need for an Ebola vaccine in West Africa has never been greater.

  • And increasingly smart navigation aids in the cockpit brought far greater precision and efficiency to route planning.

  • Duke kept running for offices and losing by ever-greater margins.

  • The hope was that greater transparency about performance would drive results.

  • Veterans are a small minority of the population, as well, serving the greater whole.

  • Greater mischiefs happen often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

  • The clock struck ten, and clerks poured in faster than ever, each one in a greater perspiration than his predecessor.

  • Tobacco is a strong growing plant resisting heat and drought to a far (p. 018) greater extent than most plants.

  • In the old world, poverty seemed, and poverty was, the natural and inevitable lot of the greater portion of mankind.

  • Never then was there a moment in which there was greater need for sane and serious thought.