tremendous
tremendous 英 [trəˈmendəs] 美 [trɪˈmɛndəs]
adj. 极大的，巨大的
a tremendous explosion 巨大的爆炸声
A tremendous amount of work has gone into the project. 大量的工作已投入到这项工程。
- Tremendous means extraordinarily large in size, extent, amount, power, or degree. It can also mean really marvelous and fantastic — or really awful and terrible.
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- adj. 极大的，巨大的
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1. a tremendous explosion
巨大的爆炸声
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2. A tremendous amount of work has gone into the project.
大量的工作已投入到这项工程。
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3. It was a tremendous experience.
这是个了不起的经历。
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4. tremendously exciting
极其令人兴奋
- tremendous (adj.) 1630s, "awful, dreadful, terrible," from Latin tremendus "fearful, to be dreaded, terrible," literally "to be trembled at," gerundive form of tremere "to tremble" (see tremble (v.)). Hyperbolic or intensive sense of "extraordinarily great or good, immense" is attested from 1812, paralleling semantic changes in terrific, terrible, dreadful, awful, etc. Related: Tremendously.
tre·men·dous / trəˈmendəs ; NAmE trəˈmendəs / adjective 1 very great 巨大的；极大的 SYN huge ◆ a tremendous explosion 巨大的爆炸声 ◆ A tremendous amount of work has gone into the project. 大量的工作已投入到这项工程。 2 extremely good 极好的；精彩的；了不起的 SYN remarkable ◆ It was a tremendous experience. 这是个了不起的经历。 ▶ tre·men·dous·ly / trəˈmendəsli ; NAmE trəˈmendəsli / adverb ◆ tremendously exciting 极其令人兴奋 tre·men·dous / trəˈmendəs ; NAmE trəˈmendəs / tre·men·dous·ly / trəˈmendəsli ; NAmE trəˈmendəsli /
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