colossal

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英 [kə'lɒs(ə)l] 美[kə'lɑsl]

释义

adj. 巨大的；异常的，非常的

近义词

huge enormous vast gigantic immense mammoth

中文词源

colossal 巨大的

来自colossus, 巨型雕像。

英文词源

colossal: colossal: [18] Colossal comes ultimately from Greek kolossós, a word of unknown origin which was first used by the historian Herodotus as a name for certain gigantic statues in Egypt. It became much better known, of course, when applied to the Colossus of Rhodes, a 36-metrehigh statue of Apollo that stood at the entrance to Rhodes harbour, built around 280 BC. Various adjectives meaning ‘huge’ have since been derived from it: Latin had colossēus and colossicus, and in the 17th century English tried colossean and colossic, but in the 18th century the choice fell on colossal, borrowed from French.

The amphitheatre built in Rome by Vespasian and Titus around 80–75 BC was named Colossēum after its great size.
colossal (adj.): 1712 (colossic in the same sense is recorded from c. 1600), from French colossal, from colosse, from Latin colossus, from Greek kolossos (see colossus).

双语例句

1. The singer earns a colossal amount of money.: 那歌手现在可赚大钱了。

2. Some of the tall buildings in that city are colossal.: 那座城市里的高层建筑很庞大.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Plagues aside, many critics see xenotransplantation as a colossal waste of resources.: 除了疫病外, 许多批评家把异种移植看作是资源的巨大浪费.

英英释意

1. so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe;: "colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple"; "has a colossal nerve"; "a prodigious storm"; "a stupendous field of grass"; "stupendous demand"

实用场景例句

a colossal statue: 巨大的雕像

The singer earns a colossal amount of money.: 那歌手现在可赚大钱了。

There has been a colossal waste of public money...: 一直存在巨大的公款浪费。

The task they face is colossal.: 他们面临的任务十分艰巨。

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.

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.

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.

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 ?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

What a colossal mistake!: 这个错误可大啦 !

It requires government spending on a colossal scale.: 这要求政府付出巨额开支.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This is indeed a colossal success.: 这确实是个巨大的成功.

Nobody smiled at these colossal ironies.: 没有一个人嗤笑过这些荒唐的恶作剧.

Some of the tall buildings in that city are colossal.: 那座城市里的高层建筑很庞大.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It was a colossal crocodilian.: 而是一种巨大的鳄鱼.

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。