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

• Twenty years later, La Salada is a gargantuan beast.
  20年后，LaSalada成了一头巨兽。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 asteroid to pass near earth this fall.
  大量小行星今秋将与地球错身而过。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Finally, despite our gargantuan team-effort, the data we gathered, and made available to the public is but a snapshot.
  最后，尽管我们的庞大团队的努力，我们收集的数据，并提供给公众，但一个快照。
• 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。