broad

B2 CET-4 Oxf 3000 高中 FREQ #4600 ★★★★☆

a. 宽广的, 辽阔的, 广大的, 显著的 adv. 宽阔地 n. 宽阔部分

发音

UK /bɹɔːd/
US /bɹɔd/
CA /bɹɑd/
AU /bɹoːd/
IN /brɔɖ/
/broɖ/

词形变化

broads 复数 broader 比较级 broader broadest broadest 最高级

教材释义与例句

形容词

宽的，辽阔的；显著的；大概的

a road, river, or part of someone's body etc that is broad is wide

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.

    英国
  2. 2.

    A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.

  3. 3.

    A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.

    英国 历史
  4. 4.

    A kind of floodlight.

    媒体
  5. 5.

    A playing card.

    古体 俚语
  6. 1.

    A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.

    美国 过时
  7. 2.

    A woman or girl.

    美国 非正式 过时 俚语
adj. B2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    Wide in extent or scope.

    three feet broad

    the broad expanse of ocean

  2. 2.

    Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.

    crushing the minds of its victims in the broad and open day

  3. 3.

    Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.

  4. 4.

    Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.

  5. 5.

    Plain; evident.

    a broad hint

  6. 6.

    General rather than specific.

    to be in broad agreement

  7. 7.

    Unsubtle; obvious.

    媒体
  8. 8.

    Free; unrestrained; unconfined.

  9. 9.

    Gross; coarse; indelicate.

    过时

    a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humour

  10. 10.

    Strongly regional.

    She still has a broad Scottish accent, despite moving to California 20 years ago.

  11. 11.

    Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

woman
形容词

同义词 10

full wide blanket liberal extensive tolerant spacious all-inclusive all-encompassing across-the-board

近义相关 10

big high clear general deep large sweeping comprehensive noticeable panoramic

参见 2

thick comprehensive

相关短语

broad daylight 大白天 broad jump vt. 跳远越过 in broad daylight 在大白天, 公开地 broad shoulders broad bean 蚕豆 broad seal [法] 国玺, 中央政府的官印 broad across the beam broad in the beam broad church broad antigen Broad Street Bullies broad awake broad sword broad strokes

词源

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-der.? Proto-Germanic *braidaz Proto-West Germanic *braid Old English brād Middle English brod English broad From Middle English brood, brode, from Old English brād (“broad, flat, open, extended, spacious, wide, ample, copious”), from Proto-West Germanic *braid, from Proto-Germanic *braidaz (“broad, wide”), of uncertain origin. Cognates Cognate with Yola brode (“broad”), North Frisian bread, breeđ, briad, briid, briidj (“wide”), Saterland Frisian and West Frisian breed (“broad, wide”), Bavarian brad, broad (“broad, wide”), Central Franconian and Luxembourgish breet (“broad, wide”), Dutch breed (“broad, wide”), German breit (“broad, wide”), Vilamovian braat (“broad, wide”), Yiddish ברייט (breyt, “broad, wide”), Danish and Swedish bred (“broad, wide”), Faroese and Icelandic breiður (“broad, wide”), Norwegian Bokmål bred, brei (“broad, wide”), Norwegian Nynorsk brei, breid (“broad, wide”), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (braiþs, “broad, wide”).

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