gargantuan
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源自法語 Gargantua,弗朗索瓦·拉伯雷所著《巨人传》中一个胃口很大的巨人的名字。该词系拉伯雷从葡萄牙语和西班牙語 garganta (“喉咙”)一词派生而来。[1]
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gargantuan (比較級 more gargantuan, 最高級 most gargantuan)
- 巨大的,庞大的
- 2018 5月 4, Tom English, “Steven Gerrard: A 'seriously clever or recklessly stupid' Rangers appointment”, 出自 BBC Sport[1]:
- Some distant observers of the Scottish football scene reckon that all - all! - Gerrard has to do is beat Celtic to become a legend. Even if that was true - and, demonstrably, it is not - then it would be a gargantuan task all on its own.
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- 2019 9月 14, Elizabeth Paton, “A Fashion/Food Blowout in the Shadow of Brexit”, 出自 New York Times[2]:
- Or the twinkling dining rooms: all frilly net curtains, pink walls, kaleidoscope-patterned carpets and tiny tables, crammed with teetering piles of hand-painted ceramic crockery (think plates covered in colorful swirls and cocktail mugs shaped like heaving bosoms or ladies’ faces) that showcase gargantuan portions of Italian fare.
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- (棄用) 巨人卡冈都亚的
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- ↑ Gourd, Pumpkin. See Budge Ref, p 803A; (from 'Rev 12'--Revue Egyptologique publiee sous la direction de MM Brugsch, F Chabas, and Eug. Revillout (vol I-XIV))
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- “gargantuan”, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “gargantuan”, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
- “gargantuan”, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587
- “gargantuan”, Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present
- “gargantuan” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
- “gargantuan” in TheFreeDictionary.com, 賓夕法尼亞州亨廷頓谷: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
- OneLook 在线词典 上有关 gargantuan 的释义