Colossal
[kə'lɒs(ə)l] or [kə'lɑsl]
解释:
(adj.) so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe; 'colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple'; 'has a colossal nerve'; 'a prodigious storm'; 'a stupendous field of grass'; 'stupendous demand' .
富兰克林校对--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue.
(a.) Of a size larger than heroic. See Heroic.
编辑:谢尔顿
同义词及近义词：
a. Gigantic, huge, monstrous, immense, enormous, prodigious, Cyclopean, Herculean.
录入:特德
同义词及反义词：
[See GIGANTIC]
手打:温迪
例句:
- Throwing these into distance, rose, in the foreground, a head,--a colossal head, inclined towards the iceberg, and resting against it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- He started as they passed the angle of the trench--it looked like a colossal grave. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- In this part of the country his load is oftenest in the shape of colossal sacks--one on each side. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The boon companion of the colossal elephant was a common cat! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The _Gigantosaurus_, disinterred by a German expedition in 1912 from rocks in East Africa, was still more colossal. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- St. Sophia is a colossal church, thirteen or fourteen hundred years old, and unsightly enough to be very, very much older. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Every man's hand is against us, and yet the interests at stake are colossal. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Against it stand four colossal Nubians, as black as night, dressed in white marble garments. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- But it still remains to elucidate the actual thing done; to reduce it to concrete data, and in reducing, to unfold its colossal dimensions. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Furnaces were enlarged to colossal dimensions, some being a hundred feet high and capable of yielding 80 or 100 tons of metal per day. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- I was surprised and hurt when I saw them, because those colossal bunches of grapes were one of my most cherished juvenile traditions. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- What reality could there be in comments upon American politics which ignored the colossal phenomenon of Roosevelt? 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Within the temple, the ornamentation was elaborate and colossal. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Baseball (not so much for those who play it), is a colossal phenomenon in American life. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- But the Count, apparently, sees nothing ridiculous in the amazing contrast between his colossal self and his frail little pets. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Yes, it is a colossal thing. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
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