Herculean
[,hə:kju'li:ən;hə'ku:liən]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) extremely difficult; requiring the strength of a Hercules; 'a herculean task' .
(adj.) displaying superhuman strength or power; 'herculean exertions' .
克莱夫整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Requiring the strength of Hercules; hence, very great, difficult, or dangerous; as, an Herculean task.
(a.) Having extraordinary strength or size; as, Herculean limbs.
整理:维维安
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Strong, mighty, powerful, puissant, vigorous, sturdy, athletic, brawny, muscular, sinewy, stalwart, able-bodied.[2]. Difficult, toilsome, troublesome, laborious, operose, very hard.[3]. Large, great, gigantic, strapping, huge, colossal, Cyclopean.
校對:潘西
同義詞及反義詞：
[See GIGANTIC]
黛西手打
解釋/意思:
adj. of or pertaining to Hercules: extremely difficult or dangerous as the twelve labours of the Greek hero Hercules: of extraordinary strength and size.—Hercules beetle a gigantic Brazilian lamellicorn beetle 6 in. long with a long horn on the head of the male and a smaller one on the thorax; Hercules' choice toil and duty chosen in preference to ease and pleasure—from a famous story in Xenophon's Memorabilia; Hercules club a stick of great size and weight; Pillars of Hercules the name given by the ancients to two rocks flanking the entrance to the Mediterranean at the Strait of Gibraltar.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Let them hope for perpetual peace and harmony with that enemy, whose manhood, however mistaken the cause, drew forth such herculean deeds of valor. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Or suppose a better sort of man who is attracted towards philosophy, will they not make Herculean efforts to spoil and corrupt him? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Bar Comas was stone dead, and only the most herculean efforts on the part of Dak Kova's females saved him from the fate he deserved. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- His cheeks, late vermilion glow, were changed to the ashy paleness of death; his Herculean strength to the feebleness of infancy. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- This, however, was in itself a Herculean task. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The completion of this herculean task marked an epoch in the history of the world. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- She plunged her arm, bare and herculean, behind the aforementioned sofa, and holding aloft a section of wood, called out in a mood of discovery: 'Is that it? 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- However, being afterwards afflicted with an attack of inflammation in my chest, I ventured to send for this Herculean Beauty! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
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