Giant
['dʒaɪənt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) any creature of exceptional size.
(noun.) an unusually large enterprise; 'Walton built a retail giant'.
(noun.) an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales.
(noun.) someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful.
(noun.) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities.
編輯:洛娜--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.
(n.) A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
(n.) Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power.
(a.) Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son.
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同義詞及近義詞:
n. Monster, Cyclops, Colossus, Hercules, huge man.
a. Huge, GIGANTIC.
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解釋/意思:
n. an individual whose stature and bulk exceed those of his species or race generally: a person of extraordinary powers:—fem. Gī′antess.—adj. gigantic.—ns. Gī′antism Gī′antship the quality or character of a giant.—adj. Gī′antly giant-like.—n. Gī′ant-pow′der a kind of dynamite.—adj. Gī′ant-rude (Shak.) enormously rude or uncivil.—n. Gī′antry giants collectively.
編輯:拉维恩
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of a giant appearing suddenly before you, denotes that there will be a great struggle between you and your opponents. If the giant succeeds in stopping your journey, you will be overcome by your enemy. If he runs from you, prosperity and good health will be yours.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The giant, steam, demanded and received the obeisance of every art before devoting his inexhaustible strength to their service. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Yet the force of this mighty giant is so completely under control, and may be brought to act so gently, as scarcely to crack a nut placed to receive its fall. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- I tried to reach the porch of a great building near, but the mass of frontage and the giant spire turned black and vanished from my eyes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Orders were shouted, but it was too late to save the giant propellers, and with a crash we rammed them. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- As on the former occasion he overthrew the cauldron before leaping, sinuous and catlike, into the lower branches of the forest giant. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- In a flash the operator switched on the current and the two men stood as if transfixed, hanging desperately to their weapons that were held aloft as by some giant’s hand. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Tars Tarkas, whose giant stature towered high above the rest of us, could see the farthest. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Was not the giant wave far higher than the precipice? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I had little hope that he could best his giant adversary who had mowed down all before him during the day. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- In the still uncultivated wilds of America, what wonder that among its other giant destroyers, Plague should be numbered! 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The giant rolls consist of a pair of iron cylinders of massive size and weight, with removable wearing plates having irregular surfaces formed by projecting knobs. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Some of the giant redwood logs must be split in the woods with powder before they can be handled on the saw carriage, and the average yield per acre is in the neighborhood of 150,000 feet. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Jesus had called men and women to a giant undertaking, to the renunciation of self, to the new birth into the kingdom of love. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- You will never care any more about my one-eyed giant, Loo, said Fred at the end. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Tabor stands solitary and alone, a giant sentinel above the Plain of Esdraelon. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The Bell Company fought alone against the Western Union, and it was a struggle of giants. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Raphael, Angelo, Canova--giants like these gave birth to the designs, and their own pupils carved them. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- If old Father Fritz had seen the pair of ye, I think he would have insisted upon the marriage, so as to breed a race of giants. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- There may be giants and dwarfs,' the first peasant said. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The turf was verdant, the gravelled walks were white; sun-bright nasturtiums clustered beautiful about the roots of the doddered orchard giants. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I say, there were giants on the earth in those days--giants that strove to scale heaven. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- A race of gods or of giants must have inhabited Baalbec many a century ago. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The Chicago White Sox were winning the American League pennant and the New York Giants were leading the National League. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Then, suddenly, the jungle giants whipped back, lashing their mighty tops in angry and deafening protest. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Of these latter, Thomas Alva Edison is one, but in the pages of history he stands conspicuously pre-eminent--a commanding towering figure, even among giants. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Nature there is totally confounded, and nothing mentioned but winged horses, fiery dragons, and monstrous giants. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- If I am a plaything for you giants, be gentle with me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The Labour of Men and Beasts now Done by Steam Giants. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
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