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 I could just be a bit less dumb, that would already be a gargantuan achievement for me.
我是想说,如果我不要那麽聪明,能够少一点笨的话,那对我来说就是一个很大的成就。 - Twenty years later, La Salada is a gargantuan beast.
20年后,LaSalada成了一头巨兽。 - When it's finished, the gargantuan titanium-and-glass structure will appear to be floating on a man-made lake.
在建成后,这个巨大的钛和玻璃组成的结构将看起来像漂浮在一个人工湖上。 - 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。 - Falk even persuaded Nike to spend at least$ 1 million marketing Jordan, a gargantuan sum at the time.
福尔克甚至说服耐克公司至少花了100万美元去推销乔丹,这在当时是一笔巨额款项。 - 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。 - Convertibility of the currency is a gargantuan barrier.
货币的可兑换性就是一个巨大的障碍。 - This is a gargantuan goal, and Mr. Tetrick concedes that the company isn't close to achieving it.
这是一个宏伟的目标,蒂特里克也承认,他的公司还没有接近实现这一目标。 - 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。 - 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。