Enormity

　　What you think it means: Huge, enormous.你認(rèn)為單詞的含義是：巨大的，龐大的。

　　What it really means: Profoundly immoral or evil.單詞的真正含義是：極其不道德的或邪惡的。

　　Don’t beat yourself up over this one because no one knows this one off the top of their head. Enormity sounds like enormous and as with many of our other examples, here we expect words that sound alike to have similar meanings. Enormity simply means really evil. An example of how to use it is the following: "The enormity of the crimes committed by the Nazis in World War II."It doesn’t mean the enormous crimes, it means the heinous crimes。不要因?yàn)橛缅e這個單詞而自責(zé)，因?yàn)闆]多少人能不假思索地知道這個單詞。Enormity(窮兇惡極)的發(fā)音和enormous(龐大的)比較相近，正如先前提過的許多例子一樣，對于發(fā)音相似的單詞，人們也很容易認(rèn)為它們的意思也一樣。Enormity是指“極其邪惡”。舉個例子來說明如何使用這個單詞吧�！凹{粹分子在二戰(zhàn)中犯下的罪行是enormity(窮兇惡極的)。”它不是說enormous(龐大的)罪行，而是指十惡不赦的罪行。