writ large

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɹɪt ˈlɑːd͡ʒ/    美 /ɹɪt ˈlɑɹd͡ʒ/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. On a large scale; magnified. figuratively
    — Since then his character had been ripened by a various experience, and also by much knowledge which he had set himself deliberately to gain. But the man was no more than the boy writ large, with an extensive commentary.
  2. Readily discerned, unmistakably indicated; clear, obvious. figuratively
    — "You don't want to live down there!" everybody said, with disapprobation writ large upon their faces. "Why, it is said there are places where a man's life isn't worth tu'pence."
  3. In general. figuratively
    — In the case of Malaysia, for instance, the regime depends not on "labour" writ large but specifically on the unorganised Malay masses.

词形变化

writ larger comparative writ largest superlative

词源

From writ (“(archaic) written”) + large, from the poem “On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament” in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions (1673) by the English poet John Milton (1608–1674): “New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ large”; Milton was using the phrase in the sense “written more completely”.
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