profundity

英 [prəˈfʌndəti]

美 [prəˈfʌndəti]

n.  (理解或处理问题的)深刻性，彻底性; 巨大; 严重; 强大; 深奥的话; 意味深长的话

复数：profundities　

BNC.33948 / COCA.26863

牛津词典

noun

• （理解或处理问题的）深刻性，彻底性
  the quality of understanding or dealing with a subject at a very serious level
  1. He lacked profundity and analytical precision.
     他缺乏深度和分析的精确性。
• 巨大；严重；强大
  the quality of being very great, serious or powerful
  1. the profundity of her misery
     她的苦难之深
• 深奥的话；意味深长的话
  something that sb says that shows great understanding
  1. His profundities were lost on the young audience.
     他语重心长，但年轻的听众却没有领会。

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 深奥；深刻
  Profundityis great intellectual depth and understanding.
  1. The profundity of this book is achieved with breathtaking lightness.
     这本书极为深入浅出。
• N-UNCOUNT （情感、经历、变化等的）深厚，深刻，深切
  If you refer to theprofundity ofa feeling, experience, or change, you mean that it is deep, powerful, or serious.
  1. ...the profundity of the structural problems besetting the country.
     困扰这个国家的严重的结构性问题
• N-COUNT 深刻的话语；深奥的话语
  Aprofundityis a remark that shows great intellectual depth and understanding.
  1. His work is full of profundities and asides concerning the human condition.
     他的作品充满了有关人类境况的深邃见解和话外音。

英英释义

noun

• intellectual depth
  1. the depth of my feeling
  2. the profoundness of the silence
  Synonym:profoundness
• the quality of being physically deep
  1. the profundity of the mine was almost a mile
  Synonym:deepnessprofoundness
• the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
  Synonym:astutenessprofoundnessdepthdeepness
• wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound
  1. the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs
  Synonym:reconditenessabstrusenessabstrusityprofoundness

双语例句

• With the development of these technologies, it is possible to expand the research field and profundity of SRB and their research at molecular level.
  这些技术的发展，不断扩展了硫酸盐还原菌的研究领域和深度并使对硫酸盐还原菌在分子水平的研究成为可能。
• The profundity of this book is achieved with breathtaking lightness.
  这本书极为深入浅出。
• Containing contradiction in unity, blending profundity in plainness& on the images in Frost's poems
  寓矛盾与统一，融深刻于平淡&谈弗氏诗歌的意象
• Although it has fused itself into the study of writing and thinking, its theoretical profundity surpasses the science of writing and thinking. This revelation shows that he has surpassed his earlier prose in cultural persentation.
  它融汇了写作学和思维学的理论，但它的理论深度和广度包孕和超过了写作和思维学。悖论的反映使得他的文化散文表现出对以往的写作的超越性。
• They root from the most part of human being's activities, pursuing the nature of profundity, universalism, everlasting and full of meaning.
  它们源于人类活动最高尚的部分，都追求着深刻性、普遍性、永恒和富有意义。
• Study motivation for primary teachers in post-employment concludes four marked features such as internality, practicability, diversity and profundity.
  小学教师职后学习动机具有内在性、实用性、多样性和深刻性四个显著特征。
• Don't say that you know nothing about art, perhaps you have no profundity in life.
  别说你不会艺术，或许该说你没有深度。
• This times is peripheral, you can choose only with peripheral right peripheral, be opposite with profundity peripheral it is otiose.
  这个时代是肤浅的，你只能选择以肤浅对肤浅，以深刻对肤浅是没有用的。
• Vast stretches of oceans appeal to us much the rather because their profundity is difficult of access.
  辽阔的海洋因其深奥难以理解才更引起我们的浓厚兴趣。
• It's got that kind of air of profundity about it that philosophy's thought to have or aspires to have.
  带有某种哲学思想或追求，所具有的深刻性。