英和和英

名詞

worldful (複数形 worldfuls または worldsful)

1. As much or as many as would fill a world.
   • 1935 August 28, Irving S. Cutter, “How to Keep Well: Paresis or Dementia”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume XCIV, number 206, page 10:

     As one writer put it: “Wealth is counted in worldsful of gold. […]”

   • 1963–1973, Poul Anderson, David Falkayn: Star Trader‎^[1], Baen Books, published 2009:

     "[…] Entire worldsful of beings who look at yonder stars till it aches in them, and know that except for a few lucky individuals, none of them will ever get out there, nor will their descendants have any real say about the future, no, will instead remain nothing but potential victims—"