gargantuan

英 [ɡɑːˈɡæntʃuən]

美 [ɡɑːrˈɡæntʃuən]

adj.  巨大的; 庞大的

GRE

BNC.21834 / COCA.17088

牛津词典

adj.

• 巨大的；庞大的
  extremely large
  1. a gargantuan appetite/meal
     食欲极佳；丰盛的大餐

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.
  1. ...a marketing event of gargantuan proportions.
     大规模的促销活动
  2. ...a gargantuan corruption scandal.
     骇人听闻的腐败丑闻

英英释义

adj

• of great mass
  1. a jumbo jet
  2. jumbo shrimp
  Synonym:elephantinegiantjumbo

双语例句

• The gargantuan peculiarities of his personal life will fade in memory while his songs continue to ring out afresh.
  他个人生活方面惊人的怪异之处将逐步淡出人们的记忆，而他的歌曲将继续飘扬在我们的耳边。
• Many developing countries have gargantuan debts.
  许多发展中国家都负有巨额债务。
• 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。
• Even the gargantuan Medes could not defeat them and the Greeks of Ionia suffered the same fate as the rest of Asia Minor.
  甚至庞大的米提亚人也无法击败他，希腊的殖民地爱奥尼亚也遭受了和小亚细亚一样的命运。
• 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）。
• This is easier to achieve if the government curbs the growth of its gargantuan budget.
  如果政府能抑制其庞大预算的进一步增长，这个目标会更容易实现。
• That is a gargantuan challenge.
  这是一个巨大的挑战。
• This technique serves to cut these gargantuan structures down to size, by deconstructing their status in contemporary Chinese society.
  这种技巧用于对这些高大建筑物进行切割，解构它们在中国当代社会中的地位。
• 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。
• Gargantuan aurora's with no solar wind?
  巨大的极光会没有太阳风？