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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

    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。