剑桥高阶英汉双解词典 - sheer collapse

sheer
[UK]/ʃɪər/ [US]/ʃɪr/
adjective
COMPLETE 完全的
A [before noun]
* used to emphasize how very great, important or powerful a quality or feeling is; nothing except
完全的，彻底的

1. The suggestion is sheer nonsense.
这个建议纯粹是胡言乱语。

2. His success was due to sheer willpower/determination.
他的成功全靠自己的意志力／决心。

3. It was sheer coincidence that we met.
我们的相遇纯属巧合。

[UK]/ʃɪər/ [US]/ʃɪr/
adjective
STEEP 陡峭的
* extremely steep; almost vertical
陡峭的；近乎垂直的

1. a sheer mountain side
陡峭的山坡

2. a sheer drop of 100 metres
100米的垂直落差

[UK]/ʃɪər/ [US]/ʃɪr/
adjective
THIN 薄的
* describes clothing or material which is so thin, light and delicate that you can see through it
（织物等）极薄的，透明的

1. sheer nylon tights
透明尼龙连裤袜

2. She wore a dress of the sheerest silk.
她穿了一条薄如蝉翼的丝绸连衣裙。

[UK]/ʃɪər/ [US]/ʃɪr/
verb [I usually + adv/prep]
* to change direction suddenly
突然转向

1. I thought the boats were going to collide, but one sheered off/away at the last second.
我以为两只小船就要撞上了，但在最后关头，其中一只突然掉头避开了。

柯林斯COBUILD高阶英汉双解学习词典 - sheer collapse

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1.ADJ 形容词(用于强调)纯粹的，完全的，十足的 You can use sheer to emphasize that a state or situation is complete and does not involve or is not mixed with anything else.

【搭配模式】：ADJ n

【语用信息】：emphasis

  • His music is sheer delight...

    听他的音乐完全是一种享受。

  • Sheer chance quite often plays an important part in sparking off an idea.

    灵感的激发通常纯粹是靠运气。

  • ...acts of sheer desperation.

    彻底绝望的行为

2.ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词陡峭的;垂直的 A sheer cliff or drop is extremely steep or completely vertical.

【搭配模式】：usu ADJ n

  • There was a sheer drop just outside my window...

    陡坡就在我窗户外面。

  • A young man plunged from a sheer rock face to his death.

    一名男青年从陡峭的岩壁上坠崖身亡。

3.ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词极薄的;极轻的;精致的 Sheer material is very thin, light, and delicate.

  • ...sheer black tights.

    极薄的黑色紧身裤

牛津高阶英汉双解 第7版 - sheer collapse

sheer
sheer / FiE(r); NAmE Fir / adjective1. [only before noun]
   used to emphasize the size, degree or amount of sth
   (用来强调事物的大小、程度或数量):
   The area is under threat from the sheer number of tourists using it.
   这一地区由于游客人数太多而面临威胁。
   We were impressed by the sheer size of the cathedral.
   大教堂的宏大规模给我们留下了深刻的印象。
2. [only before noun] complete and not mixed with anything else
   完全的；纯粹的；十足的
   SYN  utter :
   The concert was sheer delight.
   这场音乐会是一次十足的享受。
   I only agreed out of sheer desperation.
   我一时情急才同意的。
3. very steep
   陡峭的:
    sheer cliffs / slopes
   悬崖峭壁；陡坡
   Outside there was a sheer drop down to the sea below.
   外面是一道陡坡,直插大海。
4. (of cloth, etc. 织物等) thin, light and almost transparent
   又薄又轻几乎透明的:
   sheer nylon
   透明尼龙 adverb   straight up or down
   垂直地；陡峭地:
   The cliffs rise sheer from the beach.
   悬崖从海滩上拔地而起。
   The ground dropped sheer away at our feet.
   在我们脚下,地势陡降。 verb PHRASAL VERBS 
▪ 7sheer a'way / 'off (from sth)
   to change direction suddenly, especially in order to avoid hitting sth
   急转,急拐(避开某物): (figurative)
   Her mind sheered away from images she did not wish to dwell on.
   她有意不去想那些她不愿多想的事情。

牛津搭配语词典 第2版 - sheer collapse

sheer adj.
Sheer is used with these nouns: abundance, accident, agony, amazement, annoyance, arrogance, beauty, bliss, boredom, bravado, breadth, brilliance, brutality, bulk, chance, cliff, coincidence, complexity, curiosity, curtain, delight, desperation, determination, disbelief, drop, ecstasy, elation, endurance, energy, enjoyment, enormity, exasperation, excitement, exhaustion, exuberance, fabric, fantasy, ferocity, folly, force, frustration, fun, genius, grandeur, greed, grit, happiness, heaven, hell, horror, ignorance, incompetence, indulgence, inertia, instinct, joy, lack, love, luck, luxury, madness, magic, magnetism, magnitude, misery, necessity, nonsense, novelty, number, panic, pantyhose, perfection, perseverance, persistence, perversity, pleasure, quantity, relief, rock, scale, scope, size, spectacle, speculation, spite, stocking, strength, stupidity, terror, tights, variety, vitality, volume, weight, will, willpower

牛津英语同义词学习词典 - sheer collapse

sheer adj.
⇨ pure 2

新牛津英语同义词词典 - sheer collapse

sheer1

adjective
1 he whistled at the sheer audacity of the plan
UTTER , complete, absolute, total, pure, perfect, downright, out-and-out, thorough, thoroughgoing, through and through, consummate, patent, surpassing, veritable, unqualified, unmitigated, unalloyed, unadulterated, unmixed; stark, rank; plain, simple, mere; Brit. informal proper; Austral./NZ informal fair; archaic arrant; rare right-down.

2 there was a terrifying sheer drop to the sea
PRECIPITOUS , very steep, perpendicular, vertical, abrupt, bluff, sharp, vertiginous; rare acclivitous, declivitous, scarped.
-opposite(s): GRADUAL.

3 a dress of sheer white silk chiffon
DIAPHANOUS , gauzy, filmy, floaty, very thin, translucent, transparent, see-through, gossamer, gossamer-like, chiffony, insubstantial, ultra-fine, fine.
-opposite(s): THICK, HEAVY.

sheer2

verb
1 the boat sheered off to beach further along the coast
SWERVE , swing, veer, slew, skew, change course, drift, yaw.
-opposite(s): STAY ON COURSE.

2 her mind sheered away from images she didn't want to dwell on
TURN AWAY FROM , flinch from, recoil from, shy away from, refuse to contemplate, avoid, evade.
-opposite(s): FACE UP TO.

词源记忆 - sheer collapse

sheer 纯粹的，十足的，陡峭的，垂直的
来自古英语scir, 明亮的，发光的，闪耀的，来自Proto-Germanic→*skiriz, 纯的，纯粹的，清晰的，来自PIE→*skai, 发光，闪耀，词源同shine, sheen。现词义可能来自不同词源，并最终来自PIE→*sker, 剪，切，砍，劈，词源同shear, sharp。引申词义陡峭的，垂直的等。