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adj. 巨大的；异常的，非常的
adj.
巨大的；异常的；
双语释义
adj.(形容词)巨大的immense
英英释义
colossal[ kə'lɔsəl ]
adj.so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe
"colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple"; "has a colossal nerve"
同义词：prodigiousstupendous
词汇搭配
用作形容词 (adj.)
～+名词
colossal building庞大的建筑
colossal rate of interest大额利率
colossal wealth巨大的财富
同近义词辨析
tremendous, colossal, huge, gigantic, massive, vast, enormous, immense, giant这组词都有“巨大的，庞大的”的意思，其区别是：
tremendous指某物很大，大得惊人；也可用作引申意义。
colossal侧重尺寸、规模和体积的无比巨大。
huge含义广，强调体积或容积的庞大。也可用于引申意义。
gigantic指面积或体积的巨大，但多用于引申意义。
massive指大的体积、数量和重量，侧重庞大而笨重。
vast多指空间、面积、范围的巨大，不涉及重量。
enormous指体积、数量或程度远远超过一般标准。
immense正式用词，侧重空间的广阔，也指面积或分量的巨大。
giant非正式用词，多为褒义。指如巨人般的庞大体积。
双语例句
用作形容词(adj.)
This is indeed a colossal success.
这确实是个巨大的成功。
But to go back to the old ways would be a colossal mistake.
但是，回到老路上将是一个巨大的错误。
权威例句
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colossal
colossal: [18] Colossal comes ultimately from Greek kolossós, a word of unknown origin which was first used by the historian Herodotus as a name for certain gigantic statues in Egypt. It became much better known, of course, when applied to the Colossus of Rhodes, a 36-metrehigh statue of Apollo that stood at the entrance to Rhodes harbour, built around 280 BC. Various adjectives meaning ‘huge’ have since been derived from it: Latin had colossēus and colossicus, and in the 17th century English tried colossean and colossic, but in the 18th century the choice fell on colossal, borrowed from French.The amphitheatre built in Rome by Vespasian and Titus around 80–75 BC was named Colossēum after its great size.
colossal (adj.)
1712 (colossic in the same sense is recorded from c. 1600), from French colossal, from colosse, from Latin colossus, from Greek kolossos (see colossus).
1. Even by modern standards, the 46, 000 ton Titanic was a colossal ship.
即使按照现代的标准看，那46, 000吨的泰坦斯尼克号也是一艘巨轮。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
2. If Congress would make a sufficient appropriation, a colossal benefit would result.
如果国会能拨出一笔足够的专款，就会产生绝大的好处。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
3. It seems as if human agency could affect this colossal power.
真好象人力能够左右这庞大无比的力量似的。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
4. These inflexible rules cast the human and the software as adversaries, and because the human is prevented from fudging to prevent big mistakes, he soon stops caring about protecting the software from really colossal problems.
这些死板的规则使得软件成为人类的敌人，因为人类不能采取规避措施来防止更大的错误，很快就不会关心对软件的保护措施，也就不能避免真正的大问题。
-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓
5. The guide showed us a colossal statue of Jupiter, in the Vatican.
在梵蒂冈，向导领我们参观了一座朱庇特巨像。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
6. He started as they passed the angle of the trench-it looked like a colossal grave.
他们走过壕沟的转角的时候，他吓了一跳——它像一个巨大的墓穴。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
7. During the 1970s Christo had expanded his concept of art to a colossal scale.
在70年代，克里斯托把他的艺术概念扩大到异常的尺度。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
8. Everything about the two ships was on a colossal scale.
这两艘舰的一切都是庞大的。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
9. Nobody smiled at these colossal ironies.
没有一个人嗤笑过这些荒唐的恶作剧。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
10. Think of the colossal nerve of the man-the Machiavellian subtlety of his brain.
请想一想这个家伙的异乎寻常的胆量――具有权术家的多端诡计的头脑。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
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