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"
组词搭配
～+名词
many a day许多天
many a time多次
副词+～
so many如此多
too many太多
例句
用作名词(n.)
Many of these substances are innocuous.这里的许多物质都无害。
A good many of beggars are blind.乞丐中有许多人是盲人。
There are men here from all over the country. Many of them are from the south.从全国各地来的人中有许多是南方人。
词语用法
adj.(形容词)many用作形容词时后接复数名词,表示许多同样的人或物(但数目不明确),用作主语时,其谓语动词要用复数形式。常用于否定句中。 many可用来强调more,可用too, so, how等修饰。 many多用作定语,只有在对比结构中,可用作表语,往往含有“虽然多”或“确实多”的意思。 many a的意思是“许多”,与“单数名词+单数动词”连用。当其修饰宾语时,宾语常置于句首,且主谓倒装。
pron.(代词)many用作代词时,作“许多,许多人”解,常用于many of...结构中,谓语动词须用复数。 many或a good〔great〕 many用作主语时,其谓语动词用复数。 在英语口语中, many通常用于否定句、疑问句中。在肯定句中many多用于正式文体,相当于口语中的a lot of或lots of。另外,当其单独作主语或宾语,含有对比意味时,当其充当名词词组中心,只带有后置定语时或当其前面常有as, so, too, very, a good, a great等词或词组时, many也用于肯定句中。
