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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. 大多数; 大部分[QUANT 'of' def-n]

Most of the houses in the capital don't have indoor plumbing. 首都大多数房屋没有室内管道装置。

By stopping smoking you are undoing most of the damage smoking has caused. 通过戒烟，你就是在消除吸烟所致的大多数危害。

2. DET Most is also a determiner. 大多数的

Most people think the queen has done a good job over the last 50 years. 大多数人认为女王在过去的50年中尽职尽责。

3. PRON Most is also a pronoun. 大多数

Seventeen civilians were hurt. Most are students who had been attending a twenty-first birthday party. 17名平民受了伤，其中大多数是参加一个21岁生日聚会的学生。

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. 总统本人赢得了最多的选票。

5. PRON Most is also a pronoun. 最多

The most they earn in a day is fifty rubles. 他们一天最多挣50卢布。

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. 她最害怕的是变得像她母亲一样。

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

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. 她孩子们的生日聚会是左邻右舍中最好、最精心策划的。

He was one of the most influential performers of modern jazz. 他是最有影响力的现代爵士乐表演者之一。

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; 最频繁地['the' ADV after v]

What question are you asked the most?

什么问题是你最常被问到的？

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. (谈话中用于吸引注意力) 最[ADV adv/adj]

Most surprisingly, quite a few said they don't intend to vote at all. 最令人吃惊的是，相当一部分人说他们根本不打算投票。

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. 把梨放入苹果汁或水和糖中，煮最多十分钟。

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拥有的一切的能力。