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 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。
• Twenty years later, La Salada is a gargantuan beast.
  20年后，LaSalada成了一头巨兽。
• Gargantuan asteroid to pass near earth this fall.
  大量小行星今秋将与地球错身而过。
• 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。
• Jordan came back because of his immense love for the game and his gargantuan thirst for challenge.
  乔丹复出是为了他对这项运动巨大的热爱和对挑战的巨大渴望。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• That gargantuan sum of money is what central banks around the world have spent in recent years as they have tried to stimulate their economies and fight financial crises.
  世界各国的央行近些年来花了这么大一笔钱，努力刺激经济，对抗金融危机。