colossal
英 [kə'lɒs(ə)l]
美[kə'lɑsl]
- adj. 巨大的；异常的，非常的
实用场景例句
- a colossal statue
- 巨大的雕像
牛津词典
- The singer earns a colossal amount of money.
- 那歌手现在可赚大钱了。
牛津词典
- There has been a colossal waste of public money...
- 一直存在巨大的公款浪费。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The task they face is colossal.
- 他们面临的任务十分艰巨。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The worries and troubles of the coming day will seem less colossal.
- 新的一天烦恼和问题似乎也会变得没有那么咄咄逼人.
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- But, in no time at all , this one had become colossal and colorful.
- 曾几何时, 适才看见的一个已经着色放大了.
汉英文学 - 围城
- They gave Sargeras their allegiance and were transformed into colossal beings of depthless evil.
- 他们向Sargeras效忠,并变成了巨大的深渊恶魔.
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- What if the evil planned is truly colossal, or may even make retaliation impossible?
- 如果筹划中的邪恶力量将会大得惊人以致无法反击又该当 如何 ?
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- Many thousands of people must have given their lives to build this colossal construction.
- 为了修建巨大的长城,曾有上千万人为此献出了生命.
期刊摘选
- The result has been colossal and also lucrative carry trade, with both welcome and unwanted consequences.
- 结果是,出现了大量有利可图的套利交易, 其后果既有受人欢迎的,也有人们不愿看到的.
期刊摘选
- Even by modern standards, the 46, 000 ton Titanic was a colossal ship.
- 即使按照现代的标准看, 那46, 000吨的泰坦斯尼克号也是一艘巨轮.
《用法词典》
- The guide showed us a colossal statue of Jupiter, in the Vatican.
- 在梵蒂冈,向导领我们参观了一座朱庇特巨像.
辞典例句
- Such courses may be colossal failures, but I can learn from my colossal failures.
- 这样的课程可能会彻底失败, 可是我能从我的彻底失败中获得教益.
期刊摘选
- What a colossal mistake!
- 这个错误可大 啦 !
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- It requires government spending on a colossal scale.
- 这要求政府付出巨额开支.
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- But just before the competition closed, a lorry arrived at the factory with a truly colossal biscuit which weighed 2400 pounds.
- 但是竞赛赐要结束, 一辆卡车来到了工厂,带来一块真正巨大的饼干,它的重量是2400磅.
《用法词典》
- Similarly, we had fun on The Lord of the Rings, which is a colossal epic.
- 当我拍摄《沉睡谷》时, 我们得到了许多乐趣.
期刊摘选
- The export machine, at its peak in 2008, was running a colossal $ 426 bn current account surplus.
- 在2008年的巅峰时期,中国出口机器创造了4260亿美元的巨额经常账户盈余.
期刊摘选
- The financial collapse has exposed newsworthy frauds, like the colossal Ponzi scheme run by Bernard Madoff.
- 金融危机暴露出了具有有新闻价值的商业欺诈行为, 例如有BernardMadoff操纵的旁氏骗局.
期刊摘选
- This is indeed a colossal success.
- 这确实是个巨大的成功.
辞典例句
- Nobody smiled at these colossal ironies.
- 没有一个人嗤笑过这些荒唐的恶作剧.
辞典例句
- Some of the tall buildings in that city are colossal.
- 那座城市里的高层建筑很庞大.
《简明英汉词典》
- During the 1970 s Christo had expanded his concept of art to a colossal scale.
- 在70年代,克里斯托把他的艺术概念扩大到异常的尺度.
辞典例句
- China's colossal Three Gorges Dam project continues to disrupt lives.
- 中国规模庞大的三峡大坝工程继续干扰着人们的生活.
期刊摘选
- Even by modern standards, the 46000 ton Titanic a colossal ship.
- 就算是用现代的标准来衡量, 46000吨的泰坦尼克号也算得上是一艘巨轮了.
期刊摘选
- The colossal sub was a wall of steel, an atomic leviathan.
- 这样的庞然巨物往那一横,简直就是一堵钢铁之墙, 一头原子海怪.
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- There are many stories about the origin of the five colossal characters.
- 关于这五个充满活力的大字,民间有不少动人的传说.
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- It was a colossal crocodilian.
- 而是一种巨大的鳄鱼.
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同义词辨析
huge, enormous, immense, giant, gigantic, colossal, vast, massive, tremendous
这些形容词均有"巨大的，庞大的"之意。
huge： 含义广，强调体积或容积的庞大。也可用于引申意义。
enormous： 指体积、数量或程度远远超过一般标准。
immense： 正式用词，侧重空间的广阔，也指面积或分量的巨大。
giant： 非正式用词，多为褒义。指如巨人般的庞大体积。
gigantic： 指面积或体积的巨大，但多用于引申意义。
colossal： 侧重尺寸、规模和体积的无比巨大。
vast： 多指空间、面积、范围的巨大，不涉及重量。
massive： 指大的体积、数量和重量，侧重庞大而笨重。
tremendous： 指某物很大，大得惊人；也可用作引申意义。