Myriad

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n. (名詞 noun)[C]



          1.    無數,大量[(+of)]

                      Myriad[s] of mosquitoes from the swamp invaded our village every 

                      twilight.

                      每天黃昏無數蚊蟲從沼澤地飛來侵襲我們的村子。

          2.    無數的人(或物)



a. (形容詞 adjective)



          1.    無數的,大量的

                      the myriad grains of sand on a beach

                      海灘上滿地沙粒

          2.    各種各樣都有的

                      the myriad [mind] of Shakespeare

                      莎士比亞的博學多才





The Columbia Guide to Standard American English



myriad (adj., n.) 

 

As a noun, myriad means "ten thousand," but its most frequent sense is "any very large, indefinite number of persons or things," as in 

We could see a myriad of stars 

or 

We could see myriads of them. 



The plural is hyperbolic but Standard. The Standard adjective myriad simply means "innumerable": There were myriad stars in the sky.





　Such plot as there is concerns two kindly spirits (Ganz and Sander), posted to contemporary Berlin, who encounter [a] myriad of mortals, including an ageing writer blighted by memories of a devastated Germany; actor Peter Falk, on location shooting a film about the Nazi era; and a lonely trapeze artist, with whom Ganz falls in love, thus prompting his desire to become mortal at last.





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