colossal
colossal 英 [kəˈlɒsl] 美 [kəˈlɑsl]
adj. 巨大的；异常的，非常的
- Colossal describes something so large it makes you say, "Whoa!" You might have a colossal amount of homework, or see a colossal pyramid while vacationing in Egypt.
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- adj. 巨大的；异常的，非常的
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1. The colossal monument bestrode the harbour.
巨大的纪念碑高耸于海港上。
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2. But today we have involved ourselves in a colossal muddle, having blundered in the control of a delicate machine, the working of which we do not understand.
但是，今天我们已经自己身陷巨大的混乱之中，跌跌撞撞地受控于一种精致的机器，这机器如何运作我们并不理解。
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3. Felicity (to Sally): I guess what I’m saying is this might all be a colossal mistake, as my dad would say, but on the other hand it may…maybe it’ll save my life or something.
费利西蒂(对莎莉说): 我猜我想要说的这个可能是个巨大的错误，如同我爸爸说的那样，但是另一方面也许……也许它可拯救我的生命或者别的什么。
- colossal (adj.) "of extraordinary size, huge, gigantic," 1712 (colossic in the same sense is recorded from c. 1600; colossean also was used in 17c.), from French colossal, from colosse, from Latin colossus "statue larger than life," from Greek kolossos "gigantic statue" (see colossus).
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