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

• If I could just be a bit less dumb, that would already be a gargantuan achievement for me.
  我是想说，如果我不要那麽聪明，能够少一点笨的话，那对我来说就是一个很大的成就。
• Many developing countries have gargantuan debts.
  许多发展中国家都负有巨额债务。
• This appears to be what Greece is doing embarking on a course of national suicide, thanks to a gargantuan sense of entitlement and dependency.
  这似乎就是希腊现在的状况，由于强烈的享有社会福利的权利感和依赖感，整个国家都走上了自杀的道路。
• 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。
• 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。
• The space is dominated by a gargantuan console teeming with hundreds of buttons and knobs. It looks like the kind of device that, were you to flip the wrong switch, would accidentally launch a drone strike on Palm Springs.
  房间里矗立着一台布满了几百个按钮和旋钮的巨大控制台，那架势好像一弄错开关，就会不小心对棕榈泉（PalmSprings）发起一场无人机打击一样。
• The presidency has become a gargantuan enterprise in which media-star leaders are surrounded by a permanent campaign apparatus.
  美国总统这一职位已经成为了一个庞大的企业单位，固定不变的竞选机制困扰了其中被媒体所追捧的领导人。
• Perhaps this gargantuan pooch's owner from New Orleans should go easy on the treats?
  这条大狗来自新奥尔良的主人应该省着点用。
• My gargantuan, pristine machine was good for writing papers and playing solitaire, and that was all.
  我那庞大的、早期的计算机只适合写文章和玩纸牌游戏，就这些。