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名词

1. (聚成一体的)一团，一堆,一块
A mass of things is a large number of them grouped together.

2. 大堆;许多;大量
A mass of something is a large amount of it.

3. 大量;许多;一大堆
Masses of something means a great deal of it.

4. 一大群的;大批的
Mass is used to describe something which involves or affects a very large number of people.

5. (尤指无固定形状的)块，堆，团
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.

6. （与领导或受过高等教育的人相对的）普通老百姓，民众，平民大众
If you talk about the masses, you mean the ordinary people in society, in contrast to the leaders or the highly educated people.

7. (民众中的)大部分，大多数
The mass of people are most of the people in a country, society, or group.

8. （人）一大群，一大堆
A mass of people is a large crowd of them.

9. (使)聚集;(使)集中;(使)集结
When people or things mass, or when you mass them, they gather together into a large crowd or group.

10. 充满;布满
If you say that something is a mass of things, you mean that it is covered with them or full of them.

11. (物理学中的)质量
In physics, the mass of an object is the amount of physical matter that it has.

12. 弥撒(尤指天主教或东正教的圣餐仪式，以此纪念耶稣基督的最后的晚餐)
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.

13. 弥撒曲
A Mass is a piece of music which uses the prayers from the Christian ceremony of Mass as the words that are sung.

14. see also: massed;critical mass;land mass

1. the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field

2. the property of something that is great in magnitude

e.g. it is cheaper to buy it in bulk
he received a mass of correspondence
the volume of exports

Synonym: bulkvolume

3. an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)

4. the common people generally

e.g. separate the warriors from the mass
power to the people

Synonym: multitudemasseshoi polloipeoplethe great unwashed

5. a body of matter without definite shape

e.g. a huge ice mass

6. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

e.g. a batch of letters
a deal of trouble
a lot of money
he made a mint on the stock market
see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
it must have cost plenty
a slew of journalists
a wad of money

Synonym: batchdealflockgood dealgreat dealhatfulheaplotmessmicklemintmountainmucklepasselpeckpileplentypotquite a littleraftsightslewspatestacktidy sumwad