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n. 巨像；巨人；巨大的东西
n.
巨像；巨人；大国；大企业
变形
复数：colossi
英英释义
colossus[ kə'lɔsəs ]
n.
someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
同义词：giantgoliathbehemothmonster
a person of exceptional importance and reputation
同义词：behemothgiantheavyweighttitan
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
The colossus would soar higher into the sky.
这庞然大物高耸入云。
Mozart is a colossus among composers.
莫札特是作曲家中的巨匠。
A copper colossus of their leader stood in the middle of the square.
他们领袖的铜巨像耸立在广场中央。
权威例句
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colossus (n.)
"gigantic statue," late 14c., from Latin colossus "a statue larger than life," from Greek kolossos "gigantic statue," which is of unknown origin, used by Herodotus of giant Egyptian statues, and used by Romans of the bronze Helios at the entrance to the harbor of Rhodes. Figurative sense of "any thing of awesome greatness or vastness" is from 1794.
1. The colossus that bestrode the world!
哦，这个雄踞全世界的巨人！
-- 来源 -- 英汉文学 - 1984 - 1984-3
2. Among astronomers, Nicholas Copernicus suddenly appeared as a colossus.
在天文学家中Copernicus作为一个巨人突然出现。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
3. Mozart is a colossus among composers.
莫札特是作曲家中的巨匠.
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
4. The boxer weigh three hundred pound and walk like a veritable colossus.
这个拳击手重三百镑，走起路来像个十足的巨人。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
5. A colossus of bureaucracy.
巨大的官僚机器
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
6. "the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes,"
哈利卡纳苏斯的摩索拉斯陵墓;罗得岛巨像;
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例 - 工程
7. The boxer weighs three hundred pounds and walks like a veritable colossus
这个拳击手重三百镑,走起路来像个十足的巨人
-- 来源 -- life - 汉英
8. 1)colossus; formidable giant(2)huge monster
庞然大物
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例 - 习语
9. And if we enter the interior of the edifice, who has overthrown that colossus of Saint Christopher, proverbial for magnitude among statues, as the grand hall of the Palais de Justice was among halls, as the spire of Strasbourg among spires?
还有，我们一走进教堂的内部，不由要问：是谁推倒了圣克里斯朵夫巨像的呢？ 这座巨像在一切塑像中是有口皆碑的，如同司法宫大厅在一切大厅中、斯特拉斯堡的尖塔在一切钟楼中都是令人交口称誉的。
-- 来源 -- art - 汉英
10. The colossus would soar higher into the sky.
这庞然大物高耸入云。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
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