volume

• n. 量；体积；卷；音量；大量；册
• adj. 大量的
• vi. 成团卷起
• vt. 把…收集成卷

来自拉丁语volvere,旋转，来自PIE*wel,转，来自PIE*wei的扩大格，词源同wind,voluble。引申词义体积，容积，卷，册等。

1. the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object;

"the gas expanded to twice its original volume"

2. the property of something that is great in magnitude;

"it is cheaper to buy it in bulk"

"he received a mass of correspondence"

"the volume of exports"

3. physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together;

"he used a large book as a doorstop"

4. a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications;

"the third volume was missing"

"he asked for the 1989 volume of the Annual Review"

5. a relative amount;

"mix one volume of the solution with ten volumes of water"

6. the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction);

"the kids played their music at full volume"

volume

volume: [14] Volume is one of a sizeable family of English words that go back to Latin volvere ‘roll, turn’. Others include convolution [16], convolvulus [16], devolution [16], evolution, involve [14], revolt, revolution, revolve, vault, volte-face [19], and voluble [16]. Volume itself comes via Old French volum from Latin volūmen, a derivative of volvere.

The sense ‘book’ evolved from the notion of a ‘roll’ of parchment. The word came to have connotations of a ‘big’ book, and this gave rise in the 16th century to the sense ‘size of a book’. By the 17th century this had broadened out to ‘size’ in general, but the modern sense ‘size of sound’ did not emerge until the early 19th century. Latin volvere itself came ultimately from the Indo- European base *wol-, *wel- ‘turn’, which also produced English wallow.
=> convolution, convolvulus, devolution, evolution, involve, revolt, revolution, revolve, vault, volte-face, voluble, wallow

volume (n.)

late 14c., "roll of parchment containing writing; a bound book," from Old French volume "scroll, book; work, volume; girth, size" (13c.) and directly from Latin volumen (genitive voluminis) "roll (of a manuscript); coil, wreath," literally "that which is rolled," from volvere "to turn around, roll" (see volvox). Meaning "book forming part of a set" is 1520s in English, from that sense in French. Generalized sense of "bulk, mass, quantity" (1620s) developed from that of "bulk or size of a book" (1520s), again following the sense evolution in the French word.

W : We mainly deal with large volume buyers from western countries and our products have been well received.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

Medical spending, which typically rises faster than wages and the overall economy, is propelled by two things: the high prices charged for medical services in this country and the volume of unnecessary care delivered by doctors and hospitals, which often perform a lot more tests and treatments than a patient really needs.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

The rising volume of trade – more goods and services shuttling in and out of the United States – is good news for many sectors.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

Who particularly benefit from the rising volume of trade

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

So far, Google has scanned more than 10 million titles from libraries in America and Europe - including half a million volumes held by the Bodleian in Oxford.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

To increase the volume and the speed with which we move natural resources through the consumer economy to the junk pile or the waste heap.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

At any volume, there's still such a thing as too much information.

2017年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

Best Buy, for instance, has been bearing the lion's share of e-waste volume since two of its largest competitors, Amazon and Wal-mart, do not have their own recycling programs.

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

Medical spending, which typically rises faster than wages and the overall economy, is propelled by two things: the high prices charged for medical services in this country and the volume of unnecessary care delivered by doctors and hospitals, which often

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

TV Ears has helped thousands of people with various degrees of hearing loss hear the television clearly without turning up the volume.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

95 knit miniskirt in all its 2,300-pius stores around the world, it must rely on low-wage overseas labor, order in volumes that strain natural resources, and use massive amounts of harmful chemicals.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

Beethoven’s habit of increasing the volume with an extreme intensity and then abruptly following it with a sudden soft passage was only rarely used by composers before him.

出自-2014年考研翻译原文

How do you measure the volume of a gas?

你如何计量气体的体积？

牛津词典

jars of different volumes

不同容量的罐子

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the sheer volume (= large amount) of business

大量业务

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This work has grown in volume recently.

这项工作的量最近增加了。

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New roads are being built to cope with the increased volume of traffic.

正在修建新的道路以应付增加了的交通量。

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Sales volumes fell 0.2% in June.

六月份的销售额下降了0.2%。

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to turn the volume up/down

把音量调大 / 小

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an encyclopedia in 20 volumes

一套20卷的百科全书

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a library of over 50 000 volumes

藏书5万多册的图书馆

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a slim volume of poetry

薄薄的一本诗集

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‘New Scientist ’ volume 142, number 3

《新科学家》第142卷第3期

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Senior officials will be discussing how the volume of sales might be reduced.

高层领导将要讨论销售量如何削减。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...the sheer volume of traffic and accidents.

交通流量之大、事故之多

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It is 2,300 metres above sea level, so a given volume of air contains only about one-third as much oxygen as it would at sea level...

这是在海拔2,300米的高空，因此一定体积空气的含氧量只有海平面处的约1/3。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

When egg whites are beaten they can rise to seven or eight times their original volume.

蛋清打散后，体积可增至原来的七八倍。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...a 125-page volume.

一本125页的书

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...the first volume of his autobiography.

他自传的第一卷

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...bound volumes of the magazine.

杂志的合订本

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He turned down the volume...

他调低了音量。

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He came to complain about the volume of the music.

他过来抱怨音乐的音量太高了。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

What you wear speaks volumes about you...

你的衣着能传递很多关于你的信息。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Their absence spoke volumes.

他们的缺席已经充分说明了问题。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The flood cut the townspeople off from the rest of the world.

洪水割断了该镇居民与外界的联系.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The companion volume will soon be published.

这卷书的姊妹篇即将问世.

《简明英汉词典》

Up to now, I've read as far as the fifth chapter, the second volume of " The War and Peace ".

到今天, 我已经读到 《 战争与和平 》 的第2卷第5章了.

《简明英汉词典》

At present, the safe volume of blood substitute is limited to 500 to 1,000 milliliters.

目前, 血液替代品的安全使用体积被限制在500-1000毫升.

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This volume records the history of the country's revolution.

这卷书记载了这个国家的革命历史.

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That volume is still in print.

那册书还能买到.

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Pressure varies directly with temperature and inversely with volume.

压力随温度成正比例变化,与容积成反比例变化.

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