Mozart is a colossus among composers. 莫札特是作曲家中的巨匠.
Week of Colossus: Double growth for Colossuses and Titans. 巨人周:巨人与泰坦产量加倍。
A copper colossus of their leader stand in the middle of the square. 他们领袖的铜巨像耸立在广场中央。
colossus colossi
[ noun ]
someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
<noun.person>
a person of exceptional importance and reputation
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Colossus \Co*los"sus\, n.; pl. L. {Colossi}, E. {Colossuses}. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] 1. A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes.
He doth bestride the narrow world Like a colossus. --Shak.
Note: There is no authority for the statement that the legs of the Colossus at Rhodes extended over the mouth of the harbor. --Dr. Wm. Smith.
2. Any man or beast of gigantic size. ※ ||
But there is no better way to develop. Never again will one political colossus stride the country and get rid of the rights of the people.
He reveled in thumbing his nose at the United States, which he called "the colossus of the north." When elections apparently were going against him in May 1989, he abruptly had them annulled.
He thinks the rank-and-file are stirred up and sees an opening for initiative measures that build on Proposition 13 (the remaining bulkhead of the tax revolt and the ultimate target of the spending colossus).
The contest, sponsored by a pesticide company, also searched for the largest roach - a 1.88-inch colossus Palmetto bug from Okinawa, Japan.
They have ranged from fears of stifled competition to concern that the resulting defense colossus could end up dictating its own terms to the government.
What is by no means settled is whether the politicians who are elected to represent private citizens have the will to gain control over this public colossus.
And if united, will the German colossus once again threaten Europe's stability?
President Reagan said Thursday the United States is not going to play "big colossus of the North" and use military force to get Panamanian strongman Gen.
The supercomputer was valued at Dollars 19m when purchased in 1976, but Tony Cole and Saber Shehadeh paid a 'binary' Dollars 10,101.01 at a government auction. They hope someone might buy the old colossus for historic reasons.
But the transformation over the past 50 years of the simple Troisgros restaurant - opposite Roanne railway station - into today's culinary colossus is even more marked. Although its population is only 40,000, Roanne is a wealthy city.
This year's cockroach colossus will be chosen in June by judges meeting in New York.