great quantities of

基本解釋

Great quantities of fish are caught on high seas.
本句的意思是"公海內(nèi)捕獲大量的魚。" 當quantities+可數(shù)或不可數(shù)名詞作主語時，謂語動詞用復(fù)數(shù)形式，只是在quantity of +不可數(shù)名詞作主語時，謂語動詞用單數(shù)。
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Great quantities of water were sucked up into the air.
大量的水分被蒸發(fā)到了空中。
They had found, bound up in minerals, great quantities of water on the surface of the Moon.
他們發(fā)現(xiàn)了在月球表面有大量的水，以及礦物。

It turns out, it's part of a big picture and all of general relativity is based on this one great equivalence of two quantities which are very different attributes.
已經(jīng)證明的是,這確實只是冰山一角,廣義相對論的所有理論,都是建立在這兩個質(zhì)量相等的基礎(chǔ)之上,而這兩個質(zhì)量的屬性有很大差異
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These accounts, used by individual investors, tend to represent great quantities of small orders which take as much processing as big ones.
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From the late 1960s onward, William Knowles, Ryoji Noyori, Barry Sharpless and Henri Kagan, among others, began to develop catalysts that made great quantities of single enantiomers very fast.
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And even the nerdy ones like me who are at clients need the ability to enter in great quantities of nerdy data and need a device that can accommodate this.
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