many的详尽意思

1. 许多的，多的，很多的
2. 多数的
3. 不少的
4. 多种的，多样的

1. 许多，大量
2. 许多人，大多数人
3. 许多次，常常

1. 许多

1. a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `as' or `too' or `so' or `that'; amounting to a large but indefinite number;

   "many temptations"
   "the temptations are many"
   "a good many"
   "a great many"
   "many directions"
   "take as many apples as you like"
   "too many clouds to see"
   "never saw so many people"
   

1. 多：如果我们看到一个集合(譬如Customer.Orders),我们假定其多重性为多(many). 然后,在注册倒转(inverse)时,我们知道一个关系的两头的多重性,譬如,在上面的例子中,我们知道,每个Order可以有0..1个 Customer,每个Customer可以有多个Order.

1. The band is composed of many famous musicians.
   乐队由许多著名乐师组成。
2. Not many people can write with the left hand.
   用左手写字的人并不多。
3. There are many more people than I expected.
   比我预料的多出许多人。
4. He has got many more books than he needs.
   他得到的书比他所需要的多很多。
5. There are so many new desks in the classroom.
   这间教室里有这么多的新书桌。
6. There are too many mistakes in your homework.
   你的作业中错误太多了。
7. How many students are absent today?
   今天有多少学生缺课?

1. We are many, and they are few.
   我们是多数,他们是少数。
2. His words are many but meaning is not deep.
   他说的话复杂而肤浅。
3. The dishes were many, but they were all poorly cooked.
   菜很多,但烧得都不好吃。

1. I did not find many.
   我没有找到很多。
2. There were a few, but not many.
   有几个但是不多。
3. Many of them were present at the conference.
   他们中的许多人出席了这次会议。
4. Many of us were too tired to go further.
   我们当中许多人都累得走不动了。
5. Many are called but few are chosen.
   要得多,选得少。
6. A good many are waiting for you.
   许多人在等着你。
7. There were a great many at the scene.
   有许多人在场。
8. You've given me too many.
   你已经给我太多了。
9. We got three generating sets but we need as many again.
   我们得到三套发电机组,可是我们需要的比这多一倍。

• Letters..of many our contriving friends.

  出自：Anthony Cleopatra,Shakespeare

• We must drink many happy returns to her.

  出自：Dickens

• Many a wistful boy, and maidens..desire it.

  出自：R. Ellis

• In its hope that for many and many a year we may have your very self among us.

  出自：Browning

• She dearly loved..a gentleman at her feet, and many a one..she'd had.

  出自：A. Wilson

• It's going to be many a long day before I get involved.

  出自：R. Gordon

• Errands to be run, phone calls to be made, typing, so many things.

  出自：M. L. King

• There weren't many Cadillacs around in those days.

  出自：C. Jackson

• Like a dome of many-coloured glass.

  出自：comb.

• And space is many-dimensional.

  出自：A. N. Whitehead

• ☆ 直接源自古英语的manig，意为多。