great quantities of

基本解释

Great quantities of fish are caught on high seas.
本句的意思是"公海内捕获大量的鱼。" 当quantities+可数或不可数名词作主语时，谓语动词用复数形式，只是在quantity of +不可数名词作主语时，谓语动词用单数。
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Great quantities of water were sucked up into the air.
大量的水分被蒸发到了空中。
They had found, bound up in minerals, great quantities of water on the surface of the Moon.
他们发现了在月球表面有大量的水，以及矿物。

It turns out, it's part of a big picture and all of general relativity is based on this one great equivalence of two quantities which are very different attributes.
已经证明的是,这确实只是冰山一角,广义相对论的所有理论,都是建立在这两个质量相等的基础之上,而这两个质量的属性有很大差异
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These accounts, used by individual investors, tend to represent great quantities of small orders which take as much processing as big ones.
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From the late 1960s onward, William Knowles, Ryoji Noyori, Barry Sharpless and Henri Kagan, among others, began to develop catalysts that made great quantities of single enantiomers very fast.
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And even the nerdy ones like me who are at clients need the ability to enter in great quantities of nerdy data and need a device that can accommodate this.
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