Gigantic
[dʒaɪ'gæntɪk] or [dʒaɪ'ɡæntɪk]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth; 'a gigantic redwood'; 'gigantic disappointment'; 'a mammoth ship'; 'a mammoth multinational corporation' .
乔琳整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of extraordinary size; like a giant.
(a.) Such as a giant might use, make, or cause; immense; tremendous; extraordinarly; as, gigantic deeds; gigantic wickedness.
錄入:史黛西
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Huge, vast, enormous, colossal, prodigious, Cyclopean, Herculean, giant, very large.
編輯:朱利叶斯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Colossal, huge, enormous, herculean, giant, cyclopean, vast
ANT:Puny, dwarfish, feeble
布兰得利整理
解釋/意思:
adj. suitable to a giant: enormous—also Gigantē′an.—adj. Gigantesque′ befitting a giant.—adv. Gigan′tically.—ns. Gigan′ticide the act of killing a giant; Gigantol′ogy description of giants; Gigantom′achy a war of giants.
整理:辛克莱
例句/造句/用法:
- But the key was an instrument of such gigantic proportions, that before they started Riah proposed to carry it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Gigantic attempted Robbery. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Trees gigantic and aged grew near; before the gate I discerned a crowd of moving human figures--with intense curiosity I lifted my glass to my eye. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Presently came ships of iron and steel, vast bridges, and a new way of building with steel upon a gigantic scale. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was to be a picnic on a gigantic scale. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The window was partly open, and a wire led from the machine on the table through the window to a gigantic kite that a high wind kept flying fully 400 feet above the room. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- She produced it from her pocket with an air, after struggling with the gigantic door-key which had got upon the top of it and kept it down. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Everything is on so gigantic a scale. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- These curious and interesting structures, which may be considered the forerunners of the gigantic iron Tubular Bridges of the present day, were burnt by the French in 1799. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Here is a task so fine as to be gigantic. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- It was at once clear that a daring and gigantic robbery had been committed. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- There were gigantic difficulties in the way of such an undertaking. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- My person was hideous, and my stature gigantic: what did this mean? 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- As they drew near, the sailor took one look at the gigantic creature and yelled to the captain: For heaven’s sake, man, don’t harpoon that thing; we will be crushed like an egg shell! 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The gigantic expansion of the iron and steel industry was foreshadowed in the change from wood to coal in the smelting furnaces. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He wanted to make a gigantic gyroscope weighing several tons, to be run by an electric motor and put on a sailing ship. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- We shall thus have a thin wall steadily growing upward but always crowned by a gigantic coping. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of exercising enormous pressure. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The nervous arm that wielded it, with such a gigantic force on public characters, was paralysed beneath the glance of the imperious Mrs. Pott. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- A new gigantic material framework for human affairs has come unto existence. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- To contemplate the dynamo with its clumsy, enormous spools, it suggests to the imagination of the average observer the gigantic toy of some Brobdingnagian boy--but the dynamo is no toy. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Three balanced cantilevers are employed, poised on four gigantic steel tube legs supported on four huge masonry piers. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Yet here the analogy of the animals might have saved Plato from a gigantic error, if he had 'not lost sight of his own illustration. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Advertising, for example, would be nothing but gigantic and systematic lying if almost everybody didn't know that it was. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- He was evidently, though short, of gigantic strength. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The gigantic Front-de-Boeuf, armed in sable armour, was the first who took the field. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his gigantic client. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- That object which actuates and animates me in all my gigantic labours, Sir,' replied Pott, with a calm smile: 'my country's good. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- We see the same law in this author's restorations of the extinct and gigantic birds of New Zealand. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- So greatly has the climate of Europe changed, that in Northern Italy, gigantic moraines, left by old glaciers, are now clothed by the vine and maize. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
整理:辛克莱