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[英] [mʌtʃ] [美] [mʌtʃ] 生词本

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1. ADV-GRADED (表示行动、感情或变化的强烈程度，通常和 so，too，very 一起用于否定句中)很多，非常 You use much to indicate the great intensity, extent, or degree of something such as an action, feeling, or change. Much is usually used with 'so', 'too', and 'very', and in negative clauses with this meaning. 

  • She laughs too much...

    她笑得太多了。

  • Thank you very much...

    非常感谢。

  • My hairstyle hasn't changed much since I was five.

    从5岁起，我的发型就一直没怎么变。

2. ADV-GRADED 经常;常常 If something does not happen much, it does not happen very often. 

  • He said that his father never talked much about the war...

    他说他父亲从来不多谈那场战争。

  • Gwen had not seen her Daddy all that much, because mostly he worked on the ships...

    格温一直不常见到她父亲，因为他大部分时间在船上工作。

  • Do you get back East much?

    你经常回东部吗？

3. ADV-GRADED (置于比较级或 too 前，表示强调)太，很 You use much in front of 'too' or comparative adjectives and adverbs in order to emphasize that there is a large amount of a particular quality. 

  • The skin is much too delicate...

    皮肤太娇嫩了。

  • You'd be so much happier if you could see yourself the way I see you...

    如果你能像我看你那样看待自己，你会快乐得多。

  • He had written to The Times and then, much more unacceptably, allowed himself to be interviewed on television.

    他已写信给《泰晤士报》了，更让人受不了的是居然后来还同意接受电视台采访。

4. ADV 很大程度上 If one thing is much the same as another thing, it is very similar to it. 

  • The day ended much as it began...

    这一天的开始和结束几乎是一样的。

  • Sheep's milk is produced in much the same way as goat's milk.

    绵羊奶和山羊奶的生产过程差不多。

5. DET 许多；大量 You use much to indicate that you are referring to a large amount of a substance or thing. 

  • They are grown on the hillsides in full sun, without much water...

    它们被种植在阳光充足、土壤水分不多的山坡上。

  • Japan has been reluctant to offer much aid to Russia...

    日本一直不愿意向俄罗斯提供太多的援助。

  • The Home Office acknowledges that much crime goes unreported...

    内政部承认很多犯罪活动没有举报。

  • Much is also a pronoun.

    • ...eating too much and drinking too much...

      大吃大喝

    • There was so much to talk about.

      要说的太多。

  • Much is also a quantifier.

    • Much of the time we do not notice that we are solving problems...

      很多时候我们没意识到自己正在解决问题。

    • She does much of her work abroad...

      她的工作大部分要在国外做。

    • Her father had been a merchant seaman, absent for much of her childhood.

      她爸爸曾是商船船员，在她童年的大部分时光里都不在她身边。

6. ADV-GRADED (用于回答关于数量的提问)不多/不太多/太多 You use much in expressions such as not much ,not very much, and too much when replying to questions about amounts. 

  • 'Can you hear it where you live?' He shook his head. 'Not much.'...

    “你住的地方听得到吗？”他摇摇头说：“很少听到。”

  • 'Do you care very much about what other people think?' — 'Too much.'

    “你对别人的看法很在意吗？”——“太在意了。”

7. QUANT 常常;多次 If you do not see much of someone, you do not see them very often. 

  • I don't see much of Tony nowadays...

    我现在见托尼的次数不多。

  • We won't be seeing much of each other for a while.

    我们会有一段时间不常见面。

8. DET 多少(用于对数量的询问或说明) You use much in the expression how much to ask questions about amounts or degrees, and also in reported clauses and statements to give information about the amount or degree of something. 

  • How much money can I afford?...

    我能出得起多少钱？

  • See just how much fat and cholesterol you're eating...

    看看你究竟摄入了多少脂肪和胆固醇。

  • I'm always very aware of how much work there is still to be done...

    我一直很清楚还要做多少工作。

  • Much is also an adverb.

    • She knows how much this upsets me but she persists in doing it...

      她知道这样会让我有多苦恼，但她坚持这样做。

    • How much cooler will it get?

      天气会凉爽多少呢？

  • Much is also a pronoun.

    • How much do you earn?...

      你挣多少钱？

    • Greg made a vague gesture to indicate how much.

      格雷格做了一个含糊的手势表示有多少。

9. DET (用于比较数量)同样多 You use much in the expression as much when you are comparing amounts. 

  • I shall try, with as much patience as is possible, to explain yet again...

    我会尽可能耐心地试着再解释一遍。

  • Their aim will be to produce as much milk as possible...

    他们的目标是尽可能提高牛奶产量。

  • With an 18-watt fluorescent bulb you get as much light but use 75% less electricity.

    用18瓦的荧光灯灯泡有同样的亮度，而用电量却减少75％。

Usage Note :

You should use much if you want to talk about things that cannot be counted. ...too much water. You only use many to talk about things that can be counted. They owned many cars

用 much 修饰不可数名词：too much water（太多水）;用 many 修饰可数名词：They owned many cars（他们有许多小汽车）。

10. PHR-CONJ-SUBORD 虽然;尽管 You use much as to introduce a fact which makes something else you have just said or will say rather surprising. 

  • Much as they hope to go home tomorrow, they're resigned to staying on until the end of the year.

    虽然他们希望明天就回家，但还是准备耐心地继续呆到年底。

11. PHRASE 我想/ 我猜也是这样 You use as much in expressions such as 'I thought as much' and 'I guessed as much' after you have just been told something and you want to say that you already believed or expected it to be true. 

  • You're waiting for a woman — I thought as much.

    你在等一位女士——我也这么想的。

12. PHRASE (置于数量前)多达 You use as much as before an amount to suggest that it is surprisingly large. 

  • The organisers hope to raise as much as £6m for charity.

    组织者希望能募集到高达600万英镑的善款。

13. PHRASE 更不用说；更何况 You use much less after a statement, often a negative one, to indicate that the statement is more true of the person, thing, or situation that you are going to mention next. 

  • They are always short of water to drink, much less to bathe in...

    他们的饮用水一直短缺，更别提洗澡水了。

  • But we must not think of Chekhov as a leftist, much less a revolutionary.

    但是我们绝不应把契科夫看成是个左派人物，他更不是革命者。

14. PHRASE 没什么;不重要 You say nothing much to refer to something that is not very interesting or important. 

  • 'What was stolen?' — 'Oh, nothing much.'...

    “什么被偷了？”——“噢，不是什么重要的东西。”

  • Nothing much interesting seemed to be happening.

    看来不会发生什么有趣的事。

15. PHRASE 不太好的；称不上…的 If you describe something as not much of a particular type of thing, you mean that it is small or of poor quality. 

  • It hasn't been much of a holiday...

    这简直不像是假日。

  • It's not much of a career, you may think.

    你可能想这根本算不上是一份职业。

16. PHRASE 就讲这么多；到此为止 So much for is used to indicate that you have finished talking about a subject. 

  • Well, so much for the producers. But what of the con-sumers?

    好吧，关于生产商就讲这么多，那关于消费者呢？

17. PHRASE 不过如此；没有益处 If you say so much for a particular thing, you mean that it has not been successful or helpful. 

  • He has spent 19 million pounds, lost three cup finals and been relegated. So much for money.

    他已花了1,900万英镑，输掉了三场杯赛决赛，球队也降级了。钱也不是万能的。

18. PHRASE 与其说是…不如说是… If you say that something is not so much one thing as another, you mean that it is more like the second thing than the first. 

  • I don't really think of her as a daughter so much as a very good friend...

    与其说我把她当作女儿，不如说把她当作好朋友。

  • She told me she was not so much leaving her job as it was leaving her.

    她告诉我，与其说是她辞了工作，不如说是工作辞了她。

19. PHRASE 甚至;竟然 If you say that someone did not do so much as perform a particular action, you are emphasizing that they did not even do that, when you were expecting them to do more. 

  • I didn't so much as catch sight of him all day long...

    我一整天都没见他人影。

  • Laura had not reproached him, never so much as mentioned it...

    劳拉没责备他，甚至提都没提那件事。

  • She auctioned off the car without so much as taking a ride in it.

    她甚至都没怎么开过那辆车，就把它拍卖了。

20. PHRASE 太…以至于… You use so much so to indicate that your previous statement is true to a very great extent, and therefore it has the result mentioned. 

  • He himself believed in freedom, so much so that he would rather die than live without it.

    他非常崇尚自由，不自由，毋宁死。

21. PHRASE 非…力所能及的;非…应付得了的 If a situation or action is too much for you, it is so difficult, tiring, or upsetting that you cannot cope with it. 

  • His inability to stay at one job for long had finally proved too much for her.

    他没有哪份工作能干长，这一点最终让她难以忍受。

22. PHRASE 非常;确实 You use very much to emphasize that someone or something has a lot of a particular quality, or that the description you are about to give is particularly accurate. 

  • ...a man very much in charge of himself...

    自制力很强的人

  • Yorkshire is still very much a farming community with good meat, good dairy produce and eggs...

    约克郡在很大程度上仍以农业为主，出产优质肉类、奶制品和蛋类。

  • Something was very much the matter.

    确实出问题了。

23.   a bit much→see: bit;  not up to much→see: up; 
Noun

1. a great amount or extent;

  • "they did much for humanity"
Adjective

1. (quantifier used with mass nouns) great in quantity or degree or extent;

  • "not much rain"
  • "much affection"
  • "much grain is in storage"
Adverb

1. to a great degree or extent;

  • "she's much better now"

2. very;

  • "he was much annoyed"

3. to a very great degree or extent;

  • "we enjoyed ourselves very much"
  • "she was very much interested"
  • "this would help a great deal"

4. (degree adverb used before a noun phrase) for all practical purposes but not completely;

  • "much the same thing happened every time"

5. frequently or in great quantities;

  • "I don't drink much"
  • "I don't travel much"
1. He didn't speak much, but what he said affords much food for reflection.
他的话虽然不多，却耐人寻味。

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

2. He is younger than I by much.; He is much younger than I.
他比我年纪小得多。

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

3. He that talks much errs much.
[谚]言多必有失。

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

4. If we recycled more waste, we wouldn't need to produce so much and there wouldn't be so much pollution.
假如我们更多地收旧利废，我们就不必生产这么多，也就不会有这么严重的污染。

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

5. No matter how much we like honey, or how much we have read about the uncanny sense of direction which bees posses, we have a horror of being stung.
不管我们有多么喜欢蜂蜜，或者不管我们读过多少关于蜜蜂所具有的不可思议的方向感的书籍，我们都怕被蜇。

来自《用法词典》

6. There is too much yellow in the picture; it would look much better if the yellow is changed to bronze.
画中黄色太多，如改为青铜色，就好看多了。

来自《简明英汉词典》

7. When I told my husband how much my new coat cost, he said I must have gone off my head to spend so much.
当我把我的新外套花了多少钱告诉丈夫时，他说花那么多钱我一定发疯了。

来自《简明英汉词典》

8. "Home"is a much more emotive word than "house".
home（家）是远比house（住屋）更能激起感情的字眼。

来自《简明英汉词典》

9. "We would like very much to have you for dinner," as the cannibal said to the captured missionary.
嗜食人肉的人对被俘掳的传教士说：“我们想设宴招待你（吃掉你）”。

来自《简明英汉词典》

10. A bad workman finds much fault with his tools.
蹩脚的工匠总是埋怨自己的工具不好。

来自《简明英汉词典》

11. A busy man hasn't much leisure time.
忙人没有多少暇时。

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

12. A common saying goes, "Knit the brows and you will hit upon a stratagem." In other words, much thinking yields wisdom.
俗话说：“眉头一皱，计上心来”。就是说多想出智慧。

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

13. A crime or scandal brings much notoriety to those involved in it.
罪行或丑闻常使有牵连的人声名狼藉。

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

14. A factory contains much machinery.
一家工厂可容纳很多机器。

来自《简明英汉词典》

15. A fat man has much more flesh than a thin man.
胖人较瘦人肉多。

来自《简明英汉词典》

16. A few words made him much embarrassed.; He was visibly embarrassed at the remarks.
几句话说得他脸上下不来。

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

17. A fire broke out in our school, and it caused much alarm.
我们学校突然失了火，这使大家非常惊恐。

来自《用法词典》

18. A full-time job may be too much for her.
全天工作她恐怕吃不消。

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

19. A good telephone voice can do much to improve the temper of irate callers.
电话中悦耳的声音可以大大消减通话人的怒气。

来自《简明英汉词典》

20. A lie is as much a lie,when it is whispered or when it is proclaimed at the market cross.
不管是小声低语还是在市场门口大声叫喊，谎言终归是谎言。

来自《简明英汉词典》