gargantuan

英 [ɡɑːˈɡæntʃuən]

美 [ɡɑːrˈɡæntʃuən]

adj. 巨大的; 庞大的

GRE

BNC.21834 / COCA.17088

牛津词典

adj.

巨大的；庞大的
extremely large
1. a gargantuan appetite/meal
  食欲极佳；丰盛的大餐

柯林斯词典

ADJ-GRADED 巨大的；庞大的
If you say that something isgargantuan, you are emphasizing that it is very large.
1. ...a marketing event of gargantuan proportions.
  大规模的促销活动
2. ...a gargantuan corruption scandal.
  骇人听闻的腐败丑闻

英英释义

adj

of great mass
1. a jumbo jet
2. jumbo shrimp
Synonym:elephantinegiantjumbo

双语例句

Gargantuan aurora's with no solar wind?
巨大的极光会没有太阳风？
This is easier to achieve if the government curbs the growth of its gargantuan budget.
如果政府能抑制其庞大预算的进一步增长，这个目标会更容易实现。
When it's finished, the gargantuan titanium-and-glass structure will appear to be floating on a man-made lake.
在建成后，这个巨大的钛和玻璃组成的结构将看起来像漂浮在一个人工湖上。
Gargantuan asteroid to pass near earth this fall.
大量小行星今秋将与地球错身而过。
Holding on to that asset, however, has proved to be a gargantuan headache.
不过，持有这项资产却令福布斯家族头疼不已。
Falk even persuaded Nike to spend at least$ 1 million marketing Jordan, a gargantuan sum at the time.
福尔克甚至说服耐克公司至少花了100万美元去推销乔丹，这在当时是一笔巨额款项。
Even the gargantuan Medes could not defeat them and the Greeks of Ionia suffered the same fate as the rest of Asia Minor.
甚至庞大的米提亚人也无法击败他，希腊的殖民地爱奥尼亚也遭受了和小亚细亚一样的命运。
The presidency has become a gargantuan enterprise in which media-star leaders are surrounded by a permanent campaign apparatus.
美国总统这一职位已经成为了一个庞大的企业单位，固定不变的竞选机制困扰了其中被媒体所追捧的领导人。
The space is dominated by a gargantuan console teeming with hundreds of buttons and knobs. It looks like the kind of device that, were you to flip the wrong switch, would accidentally launch a drone strike on Palm Springs.
房间里矗立着一台布满了几百个按钮和旋钮的巨大控制台，那架势好像一弄错开关，就会不小心对棕榈泉（PalmSprings）发起一场无人机打击一样。
This is a principle Chuck Prince, former head of Citi, for example, appears to have practised ( perhaps because there was no alternative, given Citi's gargantuan size).
这似乎是花旗前首席执行官查克•普林斯（ChuckPrince）曾经秉持的一个原则（考虑到花旗的巨大规模，这也可能是因为他别无选择）。