| 释义 |
- (British English) an organization that accepts a wide range of opinions广纳众议的机构 synonym big tent
- The party aims to be a broad church with members from all sections of society.该党的目标是成为一个广泛的教会，其成员来自社会各阶层。
Which Word? wide / broadwide / broadThese adjectives are frequently used with the following nouns:| wide ~ | broad ~ |
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| street | shoulders | | river | back | | area | smile | | range | range | | variety | agreement | | choice | outline |
- Wide is the word most commonly used to talk about something that measures a long distance from one side to the other. Broad is more often used to talk about parts of the body. (Although wide can be used with mouth.) It is used in more formal or written language to describe the features of the countryside, etc:
- a broad river一条宽阔的河流
- a broad stretch of meadowland.一片广阔的草地
- Both wide and broad can be used to describe something that includes a large variety of different people or things:
- a wide/broad range of products.广泛/广泛的产品。
Broad, but not wide, can be used to mean ‘general’ or ‘not detailed’:- All of us are in broad agreement on this matter.我们所有人在这个问题上都达成了广泛的共识。
See also broad | church |