1QUANT 許多;大量 If you say that you need or have a great deal of or a good deal of a particular thing, you are emphasizing that you need or have a lot of it. 許多;大量 [emphasis]
...a great deal of money.
大量的錢
I am in a position to save you a good deal of time.
我能夠爲你節省許多時間。
Deal is also an adverb.
Their lives became a good deal more comfortable.
他們的生活變得舒適多了。
He depended a great deal on his wife for support.
他在很大程度上依賴妻子的支持。
Deal is also a pronoun.
Although he had never met Geoffrey Hardcastle, he knew a good deal about him.
盡管從沒有見過傑弗裏·哈德卡斯爾,但他對他知之甚多。
2QUANT [QUANTof n-uncount]許多;很多 A deal of something is a lot of it. 許多;很多 [old-fashioned]
1N-COUNT 協議;(尤指)交易,生意 If you make a deal ,do a deal, or cut a deal, you complete an agreement or an arrangement with someone, especially in business. 協議;(尤指)交易,生意 [business]
Japan will have to do a deal with America on rice imports. [+ with/on]
日本將不得不與美國就大米的進口達成一筆交易。
The two sides tried and failed to come to a deal.
雙方都努力了,但還是沒能達成協議。
He was involved in shady business deals.
他參與了一些見不得人的商業交易。
You're not going to get out of here unless we make a deal.
2VERB 經營;買賣 If a person, company, or shop deals in a particular type of goods, their business involves buying or selling those goods. 經營;買賣 [business]
They deal in antiques. [VERB + in]
他們做古董買賣。
...the rights of our citizens to hold and to deal in foreign currency. [VERB + in]
我們的公民持有和買賣外匯的權利
3VERB 販賣(毒品) If someone deals illegal drugs, they sell them. 販賣(毒品)
I certainly don't deal drugs. [VERB noun]
我當然不販毒。
dealing
...his involvement in drug dealing and illegal money laundering.
他參與了販毒和洗黑錢活動
4N-COUNT [adjective NOUN]壞運氣;不公平的對待 If someone has had a bad deal, they have been unfortunate or have been treated unfairly. 壞運氣;不公平的對待
The people of Liverpool have had a bad deal for many, many years.
利物浦人多年來一直沒有得到公正的待遇。
5VERB (在紙牌遊戲中)發(牌) If you deal playing cards, you give them out to the players in a game of cards. (在紙牌遊戲中)發(牌)
The croupier dealt each player a card, face down. [VERB noun noun]
賭台管理員給每位玩家正面朝下發了一張牌。
He once dealt cards in an illegal gambling joint. [VERB noun]
他曾經在一個非法賭博點負責發牌。
Deal out means the same as deal .
Dalton dealt out five cards to each player.
多爾頓給每個玩家發了 5 張牌。
6PHRASE 沉重打擊;對…造成傷害(或損失) If an event deals a blow to something or someone, it causes them great difficulties or makes failure more likely. 沉重打擊;對…造成傷害(或損失) [journalism]
The summer drought has dealt a heavy blow to the government's economic record.
夏季的幹旱已經對政府的經濟業績造成了沉重打擊。
The French were dealt another blow yesterday when Serge Viars withdrew from the squad.