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词汇 example_english_colossal-mistake
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colossal mistake

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meanings of colossaland mistake


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colossal
adjective
uk /kəˈlɒs.əl/ us /kəˈlɑː.səl/
extremely ...
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mistake
noun[C]
uk /mɪˈsteɪk/ us /mɪˈsteɪk/
an action, decision, or judgment that produces an unwanted or ...
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Examples of colossal mistake


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That emphasises my point that they made a colossalmistake.
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Does he not see it as a colossalmistake?
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Why was it a colossalmistake, and could that have been anticipated at the time?
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How otherwise could they have made such a colossalmistake as to think that they were interpreting the wishes of the country between the years 1929 and 1931?
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To go on as we have been going on, spending a few inadequate millions on a route here and closing a railway there, would be a colossalmistake.
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That is a colossalmistake.
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We cannot do any of that if we make the colossalmistake of rushing to war, because that will destroy thousands of civilian lives—those of children, women and men.
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If he has made mistakes in these two important questions, may we not conclude that he may be making a colossalmistake in regard to these training centres?
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The robbery attempts would be a colossalmistake.
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If they make colossal mistakes, they are apt to lose their jobs.
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