Prodigious
[prə'dɪdʒəs]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful; portentous.
(a.) Extraordinary in bulk, extent, quantity, or degree; very great; vast; huge; immense; as, a prodigious mountain; a prodigious creature; a prodigious blunder.
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同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Marvellous, wonderful, portentous, amazing, astonishing, surprising, astounding, strange, startling, extraordinary, uncommon, wondrous, miraculous, very strange, unheard of.[2]. Enormous, monstrous, huge.
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例句/造句/用法:
- They would often spring, and bound, and leap, with prodigious agility. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- His courage was prodigious. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- This course, persisted in, will soon make a prodigious difference in the quantity of wool. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- A somewhat difficult feat, achieved with great dexterity, and with a prodigious splash. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I asked, whether he or the crew had seen any prodigious birds in the air, about the time he first discovered me. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Everybody wondered at the prodigious size and beauty of the Diamond, as a matter of course. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I have advised a prodigious number of clients, and have dealt with some exceedingly awkward difficulties, in my time. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- He was very rich and very respectable, and he begot a prodigious large family--all in his favour, so far. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- It seemed they made a prodigious noise. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The great feature of the Mosque of Omar is the prodigious rock in the centre of its rotunda. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He will be a prodigious inconvenience to me, still persisted Mr. Home. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- We hurried across the ravine and up a winding road, and stood on the old Acropolis, with the prodigious walls of the citadel towering above our heads. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Five hundred pounds would be a prodigious increase to their fortunes! 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- The latter was a feeble child, and it was only by prodigious quantities of calomel that Lady Southdown was able to keep him in life at all. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Still, that mountain, prodigious as it was, was nothing to the Pyramid of Cheops. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- But the greatest curiosity, upon which the fate of the island depends, is a loadstone of a prodigious size, in shape resembling a weaver's shuttle. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Norland is a prodigious beautiful place, is not it? 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- I felt my box raised very high in the air, and then borne forward with prodigious speed. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Nature at another point had outstripped him, yet he had broadened his own sum of knowledge to a prodigious extent. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- But if I had more room, I should take a prodigious delight in improving and planting. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- The wealth of his grandfather was reported in the school to be prodigious. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- His memory was prodigious, conversation laconic, and movements rapid. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Thus advised, Mrs. Pocket took it the other way, and got its head upon the table; which was announced to all present by a prodigious concussion. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The Portuguese pennies, or reis (pronounced rays), are prodigious. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Thus Slackbridge; gnashing and perspiring after a prodigious sort. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Sincerely as I loathed the man, the prodigious strength of his character, even in its most trivial aspects, impressed me in spite of myself. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- By the help of inferences and innuendoes, treasons multiplied in a prodigious manner. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- This is a number too prodigious for the mind of man to grasp. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Thus it appears that this vein of coal has suffered a prodigious settlement. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
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