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quantity noun—量 n (almost always used) 质量 n Examples:measured quantity (such as area of volume)—(lit. quantity of spirit)—quantity of sediment (carried by a river)—be not less than (a certain quantity, amount etc)—separated in time (usu. followed by a quantity of time)—increase gradually in number or quantity—forest of wolfberry and catalpa (Lycium chinense and Catalpa ovata, idiom); fig. great quantity of talent—measured quantity of rain—fixed quantity (e.g. load of truck)—cook in a small quantity of water—sand grains accumulate make a tower a tower (idiom); by gathering small amounts one gets a huge quantity—house built with cheap, unreliable concrete which contains a high quantity of sea sand—(placed between two numbers indicate a smaller quantity followed by a larger one)—value quantity over quality—classifier for the quantity a pinch— |