| 词汇 | colossal |
| 释义 | colossal adjective uk /kəˈlɒs.əl/ us /kəˈlɑː.səl/ extremely large: 巨大的，庞大的 In the centre of the hall stood a colossal wooden statue, decorated in ivory and gold.大厅中央矗立着一尊用象牙和金子装饰的木质巨型雕像。 They were asking a colossal amount of money for the house.他们对这房子漫天要价。 Synonyms prodigiousformal stupendous greater than the average size or amount bigThey live in a big house in the country. largeA large number of people were crowded into the room. greatThe party was a great success. enormousThey bought an enormous house in the suburbs. Enormous astronomical astronomically behemoth bigly by far and awayidiom immeasurably immense immensity inordinate inordinately precipitous stratospheric stratospherically super-colossal supersized terrific thumping walloping yawning yawningly colossal | American Dictionarycolossal adjective[ not gradable ] us/kəˈlɑs·əl/ (esp. of something bad) very great: The whole business has been a colossal failure/mistake. It was a colossal waste of time. Examples of colossalcolossal From about 128 km away, they hauled huge basalt boulders, from which to carve colossal heads, and nearly 100 other sculptures. Earthquakes reflect the means whereby continents are assembled and broken apart, sometimes involving slivers migrating vast distances, and colossal rejigging of surface environments. This was a colossal failure, where cynical manipulation, massive corruption, and state terror derailed an expensive attempt to impose ' democracy ' from above. Roman artists focused on memorable urban objects actually experienced by viewers, including external walls, temples, porticos and colossal statues. This book is witness to the quite colossal contribution these workers have made. The dye was thus a useful measure of "truly colossal" reducing power in the living organism. Also, the years of observation, where no two prints from different people had ever been found to have the same details, became a colossal endorsement of this scientific fact. The feeling for the colossal power of the man, and the perception of the sheer awfulness of much of the music - it's very hard to reconcile these things. These societies are consequently entangled in a colossal prisoner's dilemma that not only perpetuates but also escalates a praetorian game that is inimical to democratic consolidation. He was a pioneer in the pathologic aspects of both congenital and acquired cardiovascular diseases, and had the colossal ability to put the pathologic findings in their appropriate clinical perspective. Wren's architecture had suddenly metamorphosed into a colossal musical instrument - a massive resonating structure! The entire story of the conquistadors is an object lesson in what can be achieved by taking colossal risks, by flaunting meagre resources in the face of unbelievable odds. We shall require a colossal national effort if the forces of democracy are to be rallied. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 After refilling and restoration there is a colossal waste of money in going to that site to obtain another coal measure from it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Anyone who thinks that we can nationalise the land without spending a colossal sum of public money is really living in a fool's paradise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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