词汇 | prodigious |
释义 | prodigious adjective formaluk /prəˈdɪdʒ.əs/ us /prəˈdɪdʒ.əs/ extremely great in ability, amount, or strength: 强大的,巨大的 She wrote a truly prodigious number of novels.她写了数量极多的小说。 She was a prodigious musician.她是一位不同凡响的音乐家。 He had a prodigious appetite for both women and drink.他对女人和酒有着强烈的欲望。 Synonyms astronomical(LARGE)informal big(LARGE) colossal elephantineformal enormous gargantuan giant gigantic ginormousinformal goodlyold-fashioned great(BIG) hefty huge immense jumbo large mahoosiveUKinformal mammoth massive outsize oversizemainly US respectable sizeablemainlyUK stupendous thumpingUKinformal tidymainly UK tremendous vast voluminousformal wallopinginformalhumorous whoppinginformal Enormous astronomical astronomically behemoth bigly by far and awayidiom immeasurable immeasurably immense immensity inordinate precipitous stratospheric stratospherically super-colossal supersized terrific thumping walloping yawning yawningly Related wordprodigiously prodigious | American Dictionaryprodigious adjective us/prəˈdɪdʒ·əs/ extremely great in ability, amount, or strength: Americans are the world’s most prodigious consumers. prodigiouslyadverbus/prəˈdɪdʒ·əs·li/ a prodigiously gifted artist Examples of prodigiousprodigious Whilst the influence of this choleric cleric and prodigious writer was enormous, scholarly interest has been slight. Or, it may have been due to the book's prodigious length, which taxed even the most enthusiastic commentators. His prodigious output includes nineteen tragedies, seventeen satires and six comedies. However, the prodigious strides in research on phototransduction biochemistry, photoreceptor physiology, molecular biology, and quantitative modeling now bring this exciting goal within sight. His devotion to the collection of material and the propagation of information was prodigious. The first is that, precisely because they are vulnerable, they go to prodigious lengths to protect themselves. Sometimes the spotlight fell on prodigious children and adolescents. Some prodigious distances were rowed in search of otters. He had a prodigious reputation and people came from miles around to spend time in his shadow. In addition to emotional excess, the poet glorifies in the prodigious amounts of wealth and time squandered for the sake of wine. Our astronomers also make the prodigious inter-stellar distances, which we can calculate but not comprehend, commensurate to other more comprehensible magnitudes and times. Hanley has done prodigious work reconstructing company accounts from newspapers, almanacs, legislation and company records. Either would have filled the gap handsomely, addressing its subject with obvious authority, based on plainly painstaking research and diligent examination of a prodigious pile of scores. Hamburger has done prodigious historical detective work, and his book deservedly will become a staple in the history of the religion clauses. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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