| 词组 | deal |
| 释义 | deal ◊ 'a great deal' and 'a good deal' A great deal or a good deal of something is a lot of it. A great deal is more common than a good deal. There was a great deal of concern about energy shortages. Monkeys and apes spend a great deal of time grooming one another's fur. She drank a good deal of coffee with him in his office. Note that these expressions can only be used with uncount nouns. You can talk, for example, about a great deal of money, but not about 'a great deal of apples'. A great deal and a good deal can also be used as adverbials. If you do something a great deal or a good deal, you spend a lot of time doing it. They talked a great deal. For a graded list of similar adverbials, see section on degree in entry at ↑ ◊ 'deal with' When you deal with a situation or problem, you do what is necessary to achieve the result you want. They learned to deal with any sort of emergency. The past tense and past participle of 'deal' is dealt , not 'dealed'. When they had dealt with the fire, another crisis arose. If a book, speech, or film deals with a particular subject, it is concerned with it. The book deals with the pursuit of Rommel's army after El Alamein. The film deals with a strange encounter between two soldiers. ◊ 'deal in' If someone deals in a particular type of goods, they sell them. He dealt in all domestic commodities. The shop deals only in trousers. |
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