英英释义
colossal [ kə'lɔsəl ]
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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： prodigious stupendous
以上来源于: WordNet
柯林斯英汉双解大词典
colossal /kəˈlɒsəl/ CET6+ TEM8
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ADJ If you describe something as colossal, you are emphasizing that it is very large. 巨大的 [强调]
例：There has been a colossal waste of public money.
一直有巨大的公款浪费。
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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It was a colossal crocodilian.
它是一种巨大的鳄鱼。
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But the damage it has caused has been colossal.
但它造成的损害是巨大的。
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The singer earns a colossal amount of money.
那歌手现在可赚大钱了。
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t seems as if nature had saved all her ruggedness to pile it up in this colossal form of the Guadalupe Peak ...
VOA: special.2010.04.26
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In comes the prehensile thumb, and the next thing you know you get a colossal earthquake, and the possessor of the prehensile thumb disappears from the earth -which is to say, very possibly the human species will never develop.
就像对人类进化至关重要的大拇指，经历了一场大地震后，如果所有有这种拇指的人都消失了,那么人类就很可能永远不能进化。
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Experts such as Stephen Jones at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts say Mr.Saakashvili's decision to attack South Ossetia's capital, Tskhinvali,was a colossal mistake.
VOA: standard.2009.09.01
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