| 词汇 | quite something |
| 释义 | quite somethingquite something 1 especially British EnglishBrEGOOD/EXCELLENT used to say that someone or something is very impressive 令人难忘的人[事]；不寻常的人[事] It’s quite something to walk out on stage in front of 20,000 people. 上台面对两万名观众这很了不起。 Examples from the Corpus quite something• Would have been quite something if they'd brought him back.• It is quite something to discover giant tubeworms clustered around warm water flowing from the seafloor.• Matthau, who has died aged 79, was quite something.• Putting some one's shoulder back into place standing on a six inch ledge is quite something.• Then he said: This is quite something.• To most of us, however, nothing is more obvious than that the universe really is quite something. → quite something at quite(9) 2 BROKEN spoken used to say that something is very good and impressive 真了不起，真精彩 Running your own company at 21 is really something. 你 21 岁就经营自己的公司，真了不起。 That was really something, wasn’t it? 那真是了不起，对不对？ Examples from the Corpus be (really/quite) something• Practice time is something else everyone seems to take for granted.• But there was something else, too.• It lies unassimilated on the edge of my under-standing; there is something I must learn from it.• Yes, there was something in there and I bet myself it would be Jo's emerald pendant.• Surely there was something more to it.• She thinks this is something that concerns you, too.• That is something that special educators have, so far, lamentably failed to offer disabled children and their families.• Cancer was something you cut out and that was that. → be (really/quite) something at something(7) |
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