greatness
greatness
1. One's greatness lies not so much in his wealth as in his character.
一个人的伟大与其说是由他的财富来判断，倒不如说是由他的品德来判断。
2. The great virtue of air travel is speed.
乘飞机旅行的最大优点是速度快。
3. It has proved of great assistance in such training.
事实证明，在这类训练中，它很有好处。
4. All in all it had been a great success.
从各方面来说，那都是极大的成功。
5. He made a great fortune by fair means or foul.
他不择手段地发了一笔大财。
6. He kicked about a great deal before settling down.
他东奔西走了好久才定居下来。
7. He is proud of his great success in scientific researches.
他为自己在科研方面所取得的巨大成就而自豪。
8. He has extracted a great many examples from the grammar book.
他从那本文法书中引用了许多例子。
9. They meet with great regularity.
他们定期会面。
10. They show great anxiety concerning their retirement allowance.
他们对自己的养老金问题显得十分焦虑。
11. Some of them developed a great inferiority complex.
他们有些人养成了严重的自卑感。
12. He wrote poems in praise of our great socialist motherland.
他写诗歌颂我们伟大的社会主义祖国。
13. He has had great success in life.
他在一生中飞黄腾达。
14. He showed great composure in difficult situations.
他在困难环境中表现得极沉着。
15. He got a great deal of kudos for his work at the university.
他在大学里贡献良多，得到许多荣誉。
16. He display a great deal of artifice in decorate his new house.
他在布置新房子中表现出富有技巧。
17. He showed great courage in battle.
他在战斗中表现得十分勇敢。
18. He played the man in the time of great trouble.
他在极为困难的时候显示出男子汉的气概。
19. In his youth, he had shown great promise.
他在青少年时代就显得很有出息。
20. He was in a state of great agitation.
他处于异常焦虑的状态。
21. He is slow to learn, but shows great perseverance.
他学得慢，但是他表现出不屈不挠的毅力。
22. He felt great enmity towards his brother.
他对他弟弟满怀敌意。
23. He shows great assiduity in all his work.
他对所有工作都兢兢业业。
24. He evinced great sorrow for what he had done.
他对自己的所作所为深表歉疚。
25. He will go down in history as a great statesman.
他将作为伟大的政治家而载入史册。
26. He has a great respect for his father.
他很敬佩他的父亲。
27. He has great talent, but he has lost his faith.
他很有天赋，但是他已经丧失了信心。
28. He felt great affection for his sister.
他很疼他的妹妹。
29. He had to pay a walloping (great) fine.
他得付一(大)笔罚款。
30. He attributed his great progress in English study to our help.
他把他在英语学习上所取得的极大进步归功于我们的帮助。
31. He is possessed of great wealth.
他拥有巨大的财富。
32. He has long since been recognized as a great playwright.
他早就被公认为伟大的剧作家了。
33. His early career was not a great success.
他早期的生涯并不很成功。
34. He is a man of great resolution.
他是一个极其果断的人。
35. He is a great guy, a chip off the old block.
他是一位好人，就像他父亲一样。
36. He is a child of great intellect.
他是个极具聪明才智的男孩。
37. He took great exception to what I said.
他极力反对我的话。
38. His mother's death was a great shock to him.
他母亲之死对他精神上打击很大。
39. He cried off the project and left his friends in great difficulty.
他没有实行他的计划，因而使他的朋友陷入困境。
40. He attained to a very great age.
他活到了很大年纪。
41. He speaks to us with great fervor.
他热情洋溢地对我们说。
42. His parents have great expectations for his future.
他父母对他的前途深寄厚望。
43. He put his great foot on the flowerbed.
他的大脚踩在花坛上。
44. His failure was a great surprise to us.
他的失败使我们感到意外。
45. His wild behavior was a great distress to his mother.
他的放荡的行为使他的母亲极为苦恼。
46. His new book was a great success.
他的新书获得了巨大的成功。
47. He takes great delight in proving others wrong.
他的极大乐趣是证实别人错了。
48. His father placed great hopes on [in] him.
他的父亲对他寄于很大希望。
49. His work obtained him great fame.
他的研究工作使他博得盛名。
50. He seemed to be in a great hurry.
他看起来很匆忙的样子。
51. He is capable of great villainies.
他能干出极坏的事情。
52. He was popularly regarded as a great authority on phonetics.
他被普遍认为是语音学方面的大权威。
53. He go to great pain to explain the problem to us.
他费了很大劲向我们解释那个问题。
54. In doing so, he did a great service to the people.
他这样做，就为人民办了一件大好事。
55. Celestials live in the great void.
仙人生活在太虚之中。
56. Bertrand Russell, one of the great thinkers of our age.
伯特兰拉塞尔当代伟大的思想家之一。
57. It's a great convenience to live in town.
住在城市里有很大的方便。
58. The great drawback to living on a main road is the constant noise.
住在通衢大道上的最大缺点就是噪声不断。
59. You should imitate great and good people.
你应仿效伟大善良的人。
60. It is a great pity that you should think so.
你竟这样想，太令人遗憾了。
61. You are making a great commotion about nothing.
你简直是在无理取闹。
62. You do us a great honour by attending.
你肯光临使我们感到无比荣幸。
63. The detective laid great stress on details.
侦探特别强调细节。
64. A man of great ability like him will eventually reach the top.
像他这样才能出众的人终究会升到最上层的。
65. Parks are a great boon to people in big cities.
公园对大城市的居民是大有裨益的设施。
66. A great variety of flowers were shown in the park.
公园里展出了很多品种的花。
67. He kept busy on the book even though he was in great pain.
即使在疼痛难忍时，他仍然坚持写这本书。
68. Catherine the Great was apparently an imperial hot pants.
叶卡捷琳娜二世显然是个风流女皇。
69. It is great to hear about your recent promotion.
听说你近来得到了提升，这好极了。
70. Great Scott! Who broke my window?
唉！谁打破了我的窗？
71. A hot bath is a great refreshment after a day's work.
在一天工作之後洗个热水澡真是舒畅。
72. Respiration is difficult at great heights.
在很高的高原上呼吸很困难。
73. Swimming in the sea is great fun.
在海里游泳很好玩。
74. There have been great advances in medicine in the last ten years.
在过去十年里，医学取得了巨大的进步。
75. In this respect they are making great strides.
在这方面，他们正大步前进。
76. Earth movements in the past elevated great area of the seabed.
地球过去的运动使海底大片地区隆起。
77. Great oak from little acorn grow.
大橡树生于小橡实。
78. A great poet is a master melody.
大诗人也是音律大师。
79. The elephant lowered its great bulk.
大象蹲下它庞大的身躯。
80. High winds put great stress on the structure.
大风作用于该建筑物上而产生巨大的应力。
