gargantuan
英 [ɡɑːˈɡæntʃuən]
美 [ɡɑːrˈɡæntʃuən]
adj. 巨大的; 庞大的
BNC.21834 / COCA.17088
牛津词典
adj.
- 巨大的;庞大的
extremely large- a gargantuan appetite/meal
食欲极佳;丰盛的大餐
- a gargantuan appetite/meal
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.- ...a marketing event of gargantuan proportions.
大规模的促销活动 - ...a gargantuan corruption scandal.
骇人听闻的腐败丑闻
- ...a marketing event of gargantuan proportions.
英英释义
adj
- of great mass
- a jumbo jet
- jumbo shrimp
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。 - Netflix ( NFlx) and Samsung are currently working to trim gargantuan files.
Netflix和三星目前正研究如何压缩视频文件。 - 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)。 - Twenty years later, La Salada is a gargantuan beast.
20年后,LaSalada成了一头巨兽。 - Astronomers have seen gargantuan plumes of material from nearer galaxies as well.
天文学家也看到过较近的星系伸出的巨大的羽状物。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。