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1. QUANT You use most to refer to the majority of a group of things or people or the largest part of something. 大多數(shù); 大部分[QUANT 'of' def-n]

Most of the houses in the capital don't have indoor plumbing. 首都大多數(shù)房屋沒有室內管道裝置。

By stopping smoking you are undoing most of the damage smoking has caused. 通過戒煙，你就是在消除吸煙所致的大多數(shù)危害。

2. DET Most is also a determiner. 大多數(shù)的

Most people think the queen has done a good job over the last 50 years. 大多數(shù)人認為女王在過去的50年中盡職盡責。

3. PRON Most is also a pronoun. 大多數(shù)

Seventeen civilians were hurt. Most are students who had been attending a twenty-first birthday party. 17名平民受了傷，其中大多數(shù)是參加一個21歲生日聚會的學生。

4. ADJ You use the most to mean a larger amount than anyone or anything else, or the largest amount possible. 最多的['the' ADJ n]

The president himself won the most votes. 總統(tǒng)本人贏得了最多的選票。

5. PRON Most is also a pronoun. 最多

The most they earn in a day is fifty rubles. 他們一天最多掙50盧布。

6. ADV You use most to indicate that something is true or happens to a greater degree or extent than anything else. 最[ADV with v]

What she feared most was becoming like her mother. 她最害怕的是變得像她母親一樣。

...Professor Morris, the person he most hated. …莫里斯教授，他最恨的那個人。

7. PHRASE You use most of all to indicate that something happens or is true to a greater extent than anything else. 最

8. ADV You use most to indicate that someone or something has a greater amount of a particular quality than most other things of its kind. 最[ADV adj/adv]

Her children had the best, most elaborate birthday parties in the neighbourhood. 她孩子們的生日聚會是左鄰右舍中最好、最精心策劃的。

He was one of the most influential performers of modern jazz. 他是最有影響力的現(xiàn)代爵士樂表演者之一。

9. ADV If you do something the most, you do it to the greatest extent possible or with the greatest frequency. 最大程度地; 最頻繁地['the' ADV after v]

What question are you asked the most?

什么問題是你最常被問到的？

10. ADV You use most in conversations when you want to draw someone's attention to something very interesting or important that you are about to say. (談話中用于吸引注意力) 最[ADV adv/adj]

Most surprisingly, quite a few said they don't intend to vote at all. 最令人吃驚的是，相當一部分人說他們根本不打算投票。

11. PHRASE You use at most or at the most to say that a number or amount is the maximum that is possible and that the actual number or amount may be smaller. 至多

Poach the pears in apple juice or water and sugar for ten minutes at most. 把梨放入蘋果汁或水和糖中，煮最多十分鐘。

12. PHRASE If you make the most of something, you get the maximum use or advantage from it. 充分利用

Happiness is the ability to make the most of what you have. 幸福就是充分享用你所擁有的一切的能力。