Colossal
[kə'lɒs(ə)l] or [kə'lɑsl]
解釋/意思:
(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' .
富兰克林校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue.
(a.) Of a size larger than heroic. See Heroic.
編輯:谢尔顿
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Gigantic, huge, monstrous, immense, enormous, prodigious, Cyclopean, Herculean.
錄入:特德
同義詞及反義詞：
[See GIGANTIC]
手打:温迪
例句/造句/用法:
- 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. 簡·愛.
- He started as they passed the angle of the trench--it looked like a colossal grave. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- In this part of the country his load is oftenest in the shape of colossal sacks--one on each side. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The boon companion of the colossal elephant was a common cat! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The _Gigantosaurus_, disinterred by a German expedition in 1912 from rocks in East Africa, was still more colossal. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- St. Sophia is a colossal church, thirteen or fourteen hundred years old, and unsightly enough to be very, very much older. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Every man's hand is against us, and yet the interests at stake are colossal. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Against it stand four colossal Nubians, as black as night, dressed in white marble garments. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- But it still remains to elucidate the actual thing done; to reduce it to concrete data, and in reducing, to unfold its colossal dimensions. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- 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. 世紀發明.
- I was surprised and hurt when I saw them, because those colossal bunches of grapes were one of my most cherished juvenile traditions. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- What reality could there be in comments upon American politics which ignored the colossal phenomenon of Roosevelt? 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Within the temple, the ornamentation was elaborate and colossal. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Baseball (not so much for those who play it), is a colossal phenomenon in American life. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- But the Count, apparently, sees nothing ridiculous in the amazing contrast between his colossal self and his frail little pets. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Yes, it is a colossal thing. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
手打:温迪