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 colossal [kә'lɒsәl]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 巨大的, 巨像似的

  1. It requires government spending on a colossal scale.
    这要求政府付出巨额开支。
  2. This is indeed a colossal success.
    这确实是个巨大的成功。
  3. It was a colossal passion in embryo, It never matured.
    它是一种还处在胚胎中的伟大感情，从来没有成熟过。


colossal
[ adj ]
so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe
<adj.all>
colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient templehas a colossal nerve
a prodigious storm
a stupendous field of grass
stupendous demand


Colossal \Co*los"sal\, a. [Cf. F. colossal, L. colosseus. See
{Colossus}.]
1. Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue.
``A colossal stride.'' --Motley.

2. (Sculpture & Painting) Of a size larger than heroic. See
{Heroic}.

  1. Harold "Kim" Philby is dead, but the bitter aftertaste of his colossal betrayal still lingers in Britain.
  2. What's really strangling bank lending is not so much the new capital requirements but a colossal shrinkage in the value of loan collateral, particularly through a decline in property values.
  3. Cut the colossal subsidies to opera by offering everyone turning up at Covent Garden Pounds 50 to go away and have a nice meal instead.
  4. Yet Sen. Metzenbaum has the colossal nerve to say that "this legislation will help workers give the competitive edge back to America."
  5. "Return to the Forbidden Planet" reaches New York from London with a colossal reputation in tow.
  6. Mrs. Aquino might wisely reject much of this colossal wish list.
  7. Had England played to their forwards, who were colossal that November afternoon, as they had in their two previous matches, they could have beaten the Aussies. But they did not.
  8. Texas' Hunt brothers did the best they could in an "atmosphere of panic" after the silver market collapse in 1980, their attorney says, denying at the start of their tax-claim trial that they had set up "a colossal sham" partnership.
  9. From now on, all these countries will appear, to British hearts, a small but perceptible degree closer than before. Construction has marked an effort of colossal technical, financial and political complexity.
  10. One way and another, the icy, colossal scale of the play makes itself felt as I have never met it before. Barbican Theatre, in repertory until August 30.
  11. "We think it's moving at colossal speed, but a lot seem to think it's moving too slowly and that some of the changes aren't deep enough," he said.
  12. It is more plausible that they want a candidate who will work against Congress, reasserting the legitimate right of a President to fight a colossal waste of public money.
  13. He called the investigation "a total bust, a colossal blunder" and scoffed at the prosecutor's 814-page report, downplaying the length of his own filing which was nearly as thick but printed on only one side of each page.
  14. Its presence is a sign of Kuwait's desperate attempt to speed up what has been an almost all-American effort to stem the colossal hemorrhage from its vast oil fields set ablaze by the Iraqis in February.
  15. "The Ritchie plan is a colossal joke.
  16. "The Central Electoral Board and Dr. Balaguer committed a colossal fraud," he told reporters Thursday, without elaboration.
  17. Waving a stack of price-valuation studies for public bread, ceramics and tractor companies now on the block, Mr. Qadir talks about the colossal losses incurred by state businesses these past 20 years.
  18. "The city is making a colossal mistake," Mr. Smith says.
  19. Not the most affecting performance I've heard - but colossal, magnificently thought through.
  20. However, it was dwarfed over the weekend by a Pounds 375m bid from Sheraton Hotels, valuing Ciga at a colossal Pounds 150,000 per room. Analysts were relieved that Forte was backtracking from a bidding war.
  21. We have broken the textbook rules again. There is a colossal distortion of the financial system. Interest rates are being held high in order to suppress inflation and prop up the sterling exchange rate.
  22. The annual search for the nation's most colossal cockroach is off and scurrying.
  23. To add to Hasbro's challenge, Coleco left the Cabbage Patch Kids franchise in a colossal mess.
  24. "This is the most colossal recovery plan ever attempted," said Harvey K. Nelson, who was selected by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as the plan's first American executive director.
  25. Yet the idea seems eerily similar to a colossal program for socialized medicine right out of the platform of George McGovern.
  26. The colossal church, rising out of a former cocoa plantation owned by the president in this town of 70,000, bears a striking resemblance to St. Peter's in Rome with its imposing dome and long arms of marble columns surrounding a plaza.
  27. "Giving the Delaware & Hudson back to the leadership that gave it the deep six would be a colossal mistake," said William Withuhn, transportation curator of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
  28. One is to persuade China to renew the lease at a colossal rental, running into billions of U.S. dollars a year.
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