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单词
gargantuan
释义
gargantuan
gar‧gan‧tu‧an
/
ɡɑːˈɡæntʃuən
$
ɡɑːr-
/
adjective
written
Word Origin
WORD ORIGIN
gargantuan
Origin:
1500-1600
Gargantua
, name of a giant in the book Gargantua (1534) by François Rabelais
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
a
gargantuan
task
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
A
gargantuan
Teddy boy was standing in the stalls, looking down at his feet.
As the snow accumulates from that little boreal patch, growing inexorably year after year,
gargantuan
ice sheets begin to form.
Of all her mistakes, this was the most
gargantuan
.
The
gargantuan
effort was conducted under almost unimaginable conditions of hardship and coercion.
The biggest buildings in the world were under construction, but none so
gargantuan
as those Gillette projected.
The executives'
gargantuan
incomes derive from their power over what has become an increasingly scarce factor of production, capital.
This meal may of course be of
gargantuan
proportions and much snacking of high-energy foods may precede its consumption.
extremely large
SYN
gigantic
:
a meal of gargantuan proportions
gargantuan task
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