【big音标】 英[bɪg] 美[bɪg]
【单词释义】 big是什么意思：
adj.大的；重要的；（计划）庞大的；大方的
adv.大量地；成功地；夸大地；宽宏大量地
n.大亨；大公司
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[比较级] bigger [最高级] biggest
[反义词] small 小的
【big形近词/近似词】
fig n.无花果；无花果树
pig n.猪 v.吃得过量，大吃特吃；生小猪；举止像猪
dig v.挖,挖掘
wig n.假发，法官帽；〈美俚〉头脑 vt.斥责，痛骂；给…装假发；激动，发狂（wig out）
【近义词解析】
◇ 大的
big (adj. 大的)：普通用词，主要形容面积、体积、范围之大，可与 large 换用，但更为通俗；形容人的时候，既可指身材高大，又可以表示职位、等级和辈分很高。
great (adj. 大的，巨大的)：表示体积、尺寸、程度等大于一般的，相当于 very big。
large (adj. 大的，巨大的；大量的)：普通用词，主要用于形容面积、体积、数量、重量；指人时表示身材高大的。
【单词例句】
◇ "Oh, grandmother, what a horribly big mouth you have!"
“奶奶，你的嘴巴怎么大得很吓人呀？”
---- Little Red Cap
◇ The stepsisters fought over the glass slipper and tried it on. Both had big feet and did not fit the shoe. The prince was very disappointed.
姐姐们争先恐后地试穿玻璃鞋。但是两人的脚太大穿不上鞋子。王子很失望。
---- Cinderella
◇ Alice quickly took the key and tried it in all the doors,but oh dear!Either the locks were too big,or the key was too small,but she could not open any of the doors.
爱丽丝马上拿起钥匙，试了试所有的门，可是天哪！锁都太大了，而钥匙大小了，她一个门也打不开。
---- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1)
◇ Each Little Man had a big beard, and a little blue coat.
每个小矮人都留着一副大胡子，穿一件小蓝上衣。
---- Snow White
◇ With a greedy motivation of making big money, I took up working as a business representative for the G.E Ecology Company, which produced goods by recycling useful materials from our dustbins.
带着想挣大钱的贪婪动机，我开始给一家叫G.E生态公司的企业当商务代表，这家公司通过回收我们垃圾箱里的有用材料生产商品。
---- An Air Crash
◇ While many of these traits are common, they're not guaranteed. Some colleges can be bigger than universities, some might offer master's degrees, and so on.
尽管两者间通常是这种关系，但也有例外。一些college可能比university还大，一些college可能还会提供硕士学位。
---- What's the difference between a college and a university?
◇ She added that one of her biggest concerns is whether the planet will have enough resources to meet people's basic needs. Population growth, combined with climate change, could strain agriculture and access to clean drinking water even more.
她补充说，一个最大的担忧是地球上是否有足够的资源来满足人们的基本需求。人口增长加之气候变化可能会给农业生产和获取清洁饮用水带来更多困难。
---- World's population could swell to 10.9 billion by 2100
◇ "In terms of weight loss, diet plays a much bigger role than exercise," University of Texas exercise scientist Philip Stanforth tells Business Insider.
得克萨斯州立大学的运动科学家菲利普·斯坦福斯说：“在减肥这方面，饮食比锻炼重要得多。”
---- Common fitness misconceptions
◇ Second biggest myth, snow isn’t white. It’s actually colorless. Snow is made up of ice particles, and ice is translucent, which means that light does not pass through it easily, but rather it gets reflected.
这是第二大误区，但其实雪不是白色的，而是无色的。雪是由冰晶分子组成的，而冰是半透明的，也就是说光线不能很轻易地穿透它，而会被其反射。
---- 3 biggest snow myths that will surprise you
◇ (6)If you are a big fan of giant pandas,you can't miss the Panda Base?
(6)如果您很喜欢大熊猫，那你一定不能错过熊猫基地。