mass /mæs/ ( masses, massing, massed ) CET4

• N-SING A mass of things is a large number of them grouped together. 一堆

  例: On his desk is a mass of books and papers.

  在他书桌上有大堆的书和文件。

• N-SING A mass of something is a large amount of it. 许多

  例: She had a mass of auburn hair.

  她有一头浓密的棕发。

• QUANT Masses of something means a great deal of it. 大量 [INFORMAL]

  例: There's masses of work for her to do.

  她有一大堆的工作去做。

• ADJ Mass is used to describe something which involves or affects a very large number of people. 人数众多的 [ADJ n]

  例: ...ideas on combating mass unemployment.

  …对付失业人数众多的方法。

  例: All the lights went off, and mass hysteria broke out.

  所有的灯都熄灭了，大家变得歇斯底里起来了。

• N-COUNT A mass of a solid substance, a liquid, or a gas is an amount of it, especially a large amount which has no definite shape. 块; 团; 堆

  例: ...before it cools and sets into a solid mass.

  …在它冷却成为一块固体之前。

• N-PLURAL If you talk about the masses, you mean the ordinary people in society, in contrast to the leaders or the highly educated people. 普通百姓

  例: His music is commercial. It is aimed at the masses.

  他的音乐很商业化，针对的是一般大众。

• N-SING The mass of people are most of the people in a country, society, or group. 大多数

  例: The 1939-45 world war involved the mass of the population.

  1939至1945年间的世界大战卷入了多数民众。

• V-T/V-I When people or things mass, or when you mass them, they gather together into a large crowd or group. 聚集

  例: Shortly after the workers went on strike, police began to mass at the shipyard.

  工人罢工后不久，警察开始在造船厂集结。

• N-SING If you say that something is a mass of things, you mean that it is covered with them or full of them. 充满

  例: His body was a mass of sores.

  他浑身伤痛。

• N-VAR In physics, the mass of an object is the amount of physical matter that it has. 质量 [TECHNICAL]

  例: Astronomers know that Pluto and Triton have nearly the same size, mass, and density.

  天文学家们知道冥王星和海王卫一拥有几乎相同的体积、质量和密度。

• N-VAR Mass is a Christian church ceremony, especially in a Roman Catholic or Orthodox church, during which people eat bread and drink wine in order to remember the last meal of Jesus Christ. 弥撒

  例: She attended a convent school and went to Mass each day.

  她上了一所女修道院设立的学校，每天都去作弥撒。

• →see also massed