1610s, "forming a large mass," also "full of turnings and windings," from Late Latin voluminosus, from Latin volumen (genitive voluminis) "volume" (see volume). Related: Voluminously; voluminousness.
权威例句
1. The FBI kept a voluminous file on Pablo Picasso.
联邦调查局保存了有关巴勃罗·毕加索的大量档案。
2. I sank down into a voluminous armchair.
我一下子坐在了宽大的扶手椅里。
3. She tucked up her voluminous skirts to make room for Jane beside her.
她掖起膨松的裙边给旁边的简腾出地方.
4. Iron and aluminum compounds precipitate as a voluminous sludge.
铁和铝的化合物成为一种体积庞大的蓬松的游渣沉淀下来.
5. The importance of the subject is suggested by a voluminous literature.