gargantuan
英 [ɡɑːˈɡæntʃuən]
美 [ɡɑːrˈɡæntʃuən]
adj. 巨大的; 庞大的
BNC.21834 / COCA.17088
牛津词典
adj.
- 巨大的;庞大的
extremely large- a gargantuan appetite/meal
食欲极佳;丰盛的大餐
- a gargantuan appetite/meal
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 巨大的;庞大的
If you say that something isgargantuan, you are emphasizing that it is very large.- ...a marketing event of gargantuan proportions.
大规模的促销活动 - ...a gargantuan corruption scandal.
骇人听闻的腐败丑闻
- ...a marketing event of gargantuan proportions.
英英释义
adj
- of great mass
- a jumbo jet
- jumbo shrimp
双语例句
- Twenty years later, La Salada is a gargantuan beast.
20年后,LaSalada成了一头巨兽。 - There was enough elbow room in this gargantuan aquarium for all kinds of surprises to emerge.
在这个巨大的水族箱里,有足够的活动空间让各种惊喜出现。 - Upon entering, my ears immediately latched onto the catchy harp introduction of Britney Spears's "Everytime" pumping into the gargantuan main room.
踏进餐厅,小甜甜布兰妮的“Everytime”这首歌正在偌大的正厅里播放着,我的耳朵立刻被这首歌前奏中竖琴的琴声给吸引了。 - Gargantuan asteroid to pass near earth this fall.
大量小行星今秋将与地球错身而过。 - Holding on to that asset, however, has proved to be a gargantuan headache.
不过,持有这项资产却令福布斯家族头疼不已。 - Welles gives us a portrait of a gargantuan man of unlimited ambitions and appetites, whose excesses outran his resources.
威尔斯为我们塑造了一个拥有无尽野心和欲望的巨人形象,他所挥霍的远超过他所拥有的。 - Falk even persuaded Nike to spend at least$ 1 million marketing Jordan, a gargantuan sum at the time.
福尔克甚至说服耐克公司至少花了100万美元去推销乔丹,这在当时是一笔巨额款项。 - Astronomers have seen gargantuan plumes of material from nearer galaxies as well.
天文学家也看到过较近的星系伸出的巨大的羽状物。 - If you undertake this gargantuan political act while others are not, you bear all the political costs and reap none of the benefits.
如果你启动了这一规模庞大的政治行动,而其他国家没有,你就得承担全部政治成本,并且不会收获其带来的任何好处。 - This is a principle Chuck Prince, former head of Citi, for example, appears to have practised ( perhaps because there was no alternative, given Citi's gargantuan size).
这似乎是花旗前首席执行官查克•普林斯(ChuckPrince)曾经秉持的一个原则(考虑到花旗的巨大规模,这也可能是因为他别无选择)。