gargantuan
[gɑ:'gæntjuən]
adj. 巨大的, 庞大的
例句与用法:
President James A. Garfield was shot by a disappointed office seeker on July2,1881.
1881年7月2日,詹姆斯·A·加菲尔德总统被一个失望的谋求官职者枪击
Garfield is a slippery customer; he's twice escaped from police custody.
加菲尔德是个狡猾的家伙,两次逃脱警察的拘捕。
词形变化:
名词复数: garganeys |
a.
庞大的, 巨大的
gargantuangargantuan[ɡɑ:ˈɡæntjuən]adj.1.■庞大的(该词源于 Gargantua, 为法国讽刺作家拉伯雷(Rabelais)在其作品《巨人传》中所描写的一个食欲巨大的国王)
[gɑːˈgantjʊən]
adjective
- enormous
巨大的,庞大的
a gargantuan appetite.
胃口很大。
- late 16th cent.: from Gargantua, the name of a voracious giant in Rabelais' book of the same name (1534), + -an
gargantuan
■"No-no-no," Rick responded weakly, as Lron spun the gargantuan wheel and the ship took up its approach.
“没有没有,”瑞克心虚的回答,而勒荣转动了那硕大无朋的轮子让船进入既定航线。
■A gargantuan pair of towers dominating the skyline of Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur. The mighty Petronas Towers scale 88 floors to a breath-taking 1,476 feet, nearly a third of a mile high.
一对巨大的塔楼赫然显现于马来西亚的首都吉隆坡的天幕。巍峨的双塔有88层楼,高度达到了令人称奇的1476英尺,近乎1/3英里高。
■A gargantuan pair of towers dominating the skyline of Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur. The mighty Petronas Towers scale88 floors to a breath-taking1,476 feet, nearly a third of a mile high.
一对巨大的塔楼赫然显现于马来西亚的首都吉隆坡的天幕。巍峨的双塔有88层楼,高度达到了令人称奇的1476英尺,近乎1/英里高。
■Not just big, but gargantuan.
不只是大,但巨大的。
■There, he would race inside the city-planet's gargantuan waste disposal systems, risking his life in exchange for the rush of breakneck acceleration.
为了满足他追求速度的快感,他跑到了科鲁斯根的下部构造,在那里,他可以享受在巨大的垃圾处理系统内驰骋的快感,而且几乎是拿生命去做赌注的狂飙。
■gargantuan mastitis
乳房巨大性乳腺炎
■Simply shortening a suit's hems and sleeves can leave the collar too broad, the pockets oversized, the armholes gargantuan, the elbow curves too low and the rear droopy.
仅仅修短衣服的下摆和袖子是远远不够的,领口、口袋、袖孔都还是太大,肘弯处太低,后摆也是耷拉着的。
■He said a problem experienced by the scientific community was one of capacity rather than the already gargantuan challenge of finding a accine.
他提到了一个科学界的共识,就是没有比研制疫苗更困难的事了。
■You'll find bowtie badges built into the side-marker lamps, back up lights and and head lamps in addition to the gargantuan, seemingly Silverado-sourced gold badges on the grille and trunk.
你会发现领结徽章纳入侧标志灯,灯和备份和头部灯除了庞大,似乎西维拉多来源黄金徽章的格栅和躯干。
■Back to the China earthquake, when several hundred billion tons of earth and rock start to vibrate, even impercetibly to humans, the enormous weight of that small vibration packs a gargantuan wallop.
像我们中绝大多数人所知道的那样,一些像蛇一样小的东西能够导致一场雪崩。
■It has soaring ice cathedrals with flashing lights, a gargantuan snow Buddha and an outdoor skating musical with an actor dressed as Uncle Sam.
其中,带着闪烁灯光的冰雕大教堂与日俱增。公园里还有一座大型的冰雕佛陀和户外溜冰音乐剧,演员着装颇似山姆大叔。
■Army personnel set up a grill nearly 1.5 kilometres long and fire-fighters lit six tonnes of charcoal to kick off the gargantuan cookout.
军方人员架设了一个长达1500米的烧烤架;消防人员点燃了六吨煤炭;一次盛大的野炊活动拉开了序幕。
■Flowing water, though, has routinely moved gargantuan amounts of sediment on Earth and could have done so on the Red Planet as well.
反观地球上的水则是一直在反覆搬运著数量庞大的沉积物,那麽在火星上也可能进行相同的过程。
■The Carnaval Bar sells drinks so gargantuan that the hookah-sized glasses attach to your neck with a leash.
嘉年华酒吧出售的饮料是如此巨大以至于只能用水烟袋大小的杯子装,用皮带系在你脖子上。
■Mr Obama spent much of his first week trying to push his gargantuan stimulus package through Congress.
在上任第一周,奥巴马先生竭力通过国会推行他的巨额刺激救市方案。
■Rides with ominous names like Raptor, Flight of Fear, and Mean Streak push the G force envelope at three gargantuan amusement parks.
在俄亥俄州的三个巨大的游乐场里你可以进行各种充满刺激的游戏。
■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 Fourth and Eighth, symphonies that are juxtaposed between gargantuan masterpieces of invention, are every bit as great as recordings made of these works by Carlos Kleiber and Furtwangler.
在这套唱片里,最令人惊喜的是贝多芬的“第九”。
■Gargantuan asteroid to pass near Earth this fall.
大量小行星今秋将与地球错身而过。
■The gargantuan hole was found by examining observations made using the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope, funded by the National Science Foundation.
天文学家们利用巨阵射电望远镜进行了仔细观测,发现了该巨型空洞。巨阵射电望远镜项目由美国国家科学基金会资助。
■The women's ten-meter synchro event was a clinic;Wang Xin and Chen Ruolin took gold with a gargantuan margin of victory (31.68 points).
女子双人10米台跳水也是如此,王鑫和陈若琳以领先第二名31.68分的巨大优势摘走金牌。
■Just how good is Yao remains a pertinent question now because he'll likely become part of a gargantuan free-agent class in 2010.
姚明到底有多好的问题现在依然存在,因为在2010年他可能加入到那些自由球员的洪流当中。
■Its fumes are toxic, it makes a loss and it consumes gargantuan quantities of subsidised electricity.
它不仅排出大量有毒气体,同时也吞噬着大量政府补贴价格的电力资源。
■Amid a series of trade disputes simmering in the background, China is pushing ahead with efforts to ensure that its gargantuan stimulus package benefits domestic companies.
对一系列幕后酝酿的贸易纠纷,中国正在采取措施确保其庞大的经济刺激方案能让国内企业从中受益。
■gargantuan corruption scandal
巨大的腐败丑闻
■Sixty feet tall, Breetai squared his gargantuan shoulders and breathed so deeply that it seemed to lower the pressure of the compartment.
布里泰身高六十英尺,他挺了挺方正庞大的肩膀,深深吸了口气,仿佛整个舱室的气压也骤然降低。
■Potentially gargantuan mainland offerings by China Mobile, a telecoms company, and CNOOC, another oil firm, are also expected, but not yet in train.
庞大的电话公司中国移动及石油公司中海油也会在国内上市,但是目前还没有动作。
■AS THE economic tide recedes, it exposes all manner of ugliness, from the gargantuan fraud of Bernard Madoff to books-fiddling at Satyam.
当经济的潮水退去,一些丑恶的事物,从伯纳德麦道夫巨额诈骗到萨蒂扬账目欺骗,终究大白于天下。
■a gargantuan appetite.
惊人的食欲。
■We made more than 10,000 of these slides, a gargantuan task that Chen and his technicians threw themselves into with optimism and energy.
我们做了上万片这样的玻片,陈均远和他的技术人员怀著希望,为这庞大的任务投入了无比精力。
■In my bunk with Nicklin's laptop, lingering over his dig ital portraits of the curious calf, I thought I could read, in its strange visage, a gargantuan impishness.
我在铺位上用尼克林的电脑细细欣赏他给那头充满好奇的小鲸鱼拍的照片,我想我能读懂,在它奇特的外表下,有一颗巨大的童心。
■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。
■It seems a gargantuan task to teach a pupil to memorize every word he needs to know, much as if the child were being asked to shovel a huge pile of sand, with the shovel shut away .
教一个小学生去死背他们需要掌握的每一个单词,看来真是一项浩繁的任务,可更像要一个孩子铲掉一大堆沙子,却不给他铲子。
■The preference is evident in the gargantuan New World Department Store in Shanghai's commercial heart.
显然,人们首选的是位于上海商业中心庞大的新世界百货商场。
■" What's more, because Shanghai is a trendsetter for China, other mainland cities might blindly follow, littering the Chinese interior with gargantuan Paris Towns.
此外,考虑到上海是中国的风向标,因此其他内地城市也会盲目跟风,造成巴黎大城遍地的局面。
■Indeed, much of Southern California, including the Baja Peninsula, will eventually migrate up the west coast to make Alaska even more gargantuan.
没错,南加州大半地区,包括下加利福尼亚半岛,终将沿西岸北移,使阿拉斯加州成为巨无霸。
■On The Day The End Began...Solar flares have triggered a series of gargantuan natural disasters.
测出不明飞行物的降落地点是在日本,007被派往日本替美方调查此事。
■The scale of the Wall Street crackup could scarcely be more gargantuan.
然而当美国人问及为什么还得花费如此令人费解的数目防止经济垮掉。
■Tyadara recognized the gargantuan beast immediately as the very Giant that had led her into this.
特雅德拉认出了这个大怪物就是把她引到这里来的超大巨人。
■The Allies assembled a gargantuan naval armada, from battleships and destroyers to landing craft and coasters.
盟军组成了一支庞大的海军舰队,从战列舰、驱逐舰到登陆艇以及运输艇等。
■In the following eight billion years, in contrast, galactic mergers became much less common, the gargantuan black holes went dormant, and star formation slowed to a flicker.
相对之下,接下来的80亿年,星系的合并变得较不普遍,巨大的黑洞蛰伏休眠,恒星的形成则少得可怜。
■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。
■Suddenly we are in the boiler room of a gargantuan steamship, men working their hardest to fill the maws of the furnaces with coal.
突然之间,我们置身于一艘大型蒸汽船的锅炉房中,工人们正卖力地把煤填到那个硕大无比的熔炉里面。
■Second, whereas the baryons and CDM were initially well mixed, the baryons today form dense knots (the galaxies) inside gargantuan halos of dark matter.
第二,尽管起初重子与CDM均匀地混在一起,今天的重子,在庞大的黑暗物质晕中形成了浓密的集团(即星系)。
■a gargantuan appetite, meal, person
胃口极佳、 丰盛的饭菜、 巨人.
■Processing each chunk of data from beginning to end that many times requires a gargantuan amount of computing power which would be unthinkable for most scientific projects.
要把所有数据从头到尾处理这么多次,我们需要极其大量的计算能力,这对于绝大多数科研项目来说都是不可想象的。
■Convertibility of the currency is a gargantuan barrier.
货币的可兑换性就是一个巨大的障碍。
■The limited edition release features Drizzt, Wulfgar the barbarian,and the fearsome, gargantuan white dragon Icingdeath.
这个限量版会包括崔斯特,野蛮人渥夫加及令人害怕的巨大白龙--冰亡。
■These discontents are reverberations from German unification in 1990, which saddled the country with gargantuan costs and led to a decade-long quest to regain competitiveness.
这些不满是1990年德国统一之后留下的余音,当时耗资极其庞大,如一副重担压在国家肩头,不得不再花十年以重获竞争优势。
■These gargantuan crabs were once affected by dark energy of Heresh, but now cured by Shalassa.
这些很大很大很大很大很大的螃蟹曾经被赫勒什的黑暗能量感染,但现在他们被沙拉萨治愈了。