| 单词 | myriad literary |
| 例句 | myriad literary noun • a myriad of insects:a multitude, a large/great number, a large/great quantity, scores, quantities, a mass, a host, droves, a horde | informal lots, loads, masses, stacks, scads, tons, hundreds, thousands, millions, gazillions.▶adjective •the myriad lights of the city:innumerable, countless, infinite, numberless, untold, unnumbered, immeasurable, multitudinous, numerous | literary divers.WORD NOTE myriad As an adjective, myriad means "an indefinitely large number [of something]" (•The Local Group comprises myriad galaxies) or "made up of a great many diverse elements" (•the myriad plant life of Amazonia). As a noun, it's used with an article and of to mean "a large number" (•The new CFO faced a myriad of cash-flow problems). What's odd is that some authorities consider only the adjectival myriad correct—there's about a 50-50 chance that a given copyeditor will query a myriad of —even though the noun usage has a much longer and more distinguished history. It's really only in nineteenth-century poetry that myriad starts showing up as an adjective. So myriad' s situation right now is confusing. It's tempting simply to recommend avoiding the noun usage so that there's no chance a reader will be bugged. The truth, though, is that any reader who's bugged by a myriad of is both persnickety and wrong—and you can usually rebut sniffy teachers, copyeditors, et al. by directing them to Coleridge's "Myriad myriads of lives teemed forth…." — DFWConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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