gargantuan
gargantuan 英 [gɑ:ˈgæntʃuən] 美 [gɑrˈgæntʃuən]
adj. 庞大的，巨大的
- Whether you're talking about your gargantuan appetite or a gargantuan building, use the word gargantuan to describe something so big that big just isn't, well, big enough to accurately describe it.
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- adj. 庞大的，巨大的
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1. No single figure, much less a private banker, could wield the kind of power in today’s gargantuan collapsing markets that Morgan had a hundred years ago.
在今天这个摇摇欲坠的庞大市场上，没有一个人，更不必说一个私人银行家，能够具有摩根在一百年之前的那种权力。
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2. Enzo would be stuck at Tyler's until the place was driven out of business by some still more gargantuan sensorium that sold everything from new spouses to plastic surgery.
恩佐会在泰勒一直混下去，直到这个地方被某个更为庞大的、出售从新配偶到整形手术等所有事物的感官系统赶出市场。
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3. American and Chinese officials, for instance, are betting that their gargantuan spending programs--both of them funded with other people's money--will provide more than just temporary relief.
比如，中国和美国官员正在打赌他们庞大的开支计划——都是使用人民的金钱——将提供远比临时性缓解痛苦更多的效果。
- gargantuan (adj.) "enormous," 1590s, from Gargantua, name of the voracious giant in Rabelais' novels, supposedly from Spanish/Portuguese garganta "gullet, throat," which is from the same imitative root as gargle (v.).
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