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enormous [ɪ'nɔrməs]

a. 巨大的, 庞大的

Long ago enormous animals lived on the earth.
很久以前，地球上生活着巨大的动物。
Of enormous size or magnitude; huge.
巨大的，庞大的规模巨大或大得出奇的；巨大的
She stood alone on the enormous stage.
她孤零零地站在巨大的舞台上。

enormous

[ adj ]
extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree
<adj.all>
an enormous boulderenormous expenses
tremendous sweeping plains
a tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology
a plane took off with a tremendous noise

Enormous \E*nor"mous\, a. [L. enormis enormous, out of rule; e
out + norma rule: cf. F. ['e]norme. See {Normal}.]
1. Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due
proportion; inordinate; abnormal. ``Enormous bliss.''
--Milton. ``This enormous state.'' --Shak. ``The hoop's
enormous size.'' --Jenyns.

Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait.
--Milton.

2. Exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as,
an enormous crime.

That detestable profession of a life so enormous.
--Bale.

Syn: Huge; vast; immoderate; immense; excessive; prodigious;
monstrous.

Usage: -- {Enormous}, {Immense}, {Excessive}. We speak of a
thing as enormous when it overpasses its ordinary law
of existence or far exceeds its proper average or
standard, and becomes -- so to speak -- abnormal in
its magnitude, degree, etc.; as, a man of enormous
strength; a deed of enormous wickedness. Immense
expresses somewhat indefinitely an immeasurable
quantity or extent. Excessive is applied to what is
beyond a just measure or amount, and is always used in
an evil; as, enormous size; an enormous crime; an
immense expenditure; the expanse of ocean is immense.
``Excessive levity and indulgence are ultimately
excessive rigor.'' --V. Knox. ``Complaisance becomes
servitude when it is excessive.'' --La Rochefoucauld
(Trans).

For these causes the people of Great Britain, the United States and other Allied nations have for 44 years made enormous sacrifices to keep our alliance strong and our military ready.
"There's enormous potential out there for every city in the country," says Mayor Joseph Petruzzi of Bellmawr, N.J., which is fighting two such suits.
The high court last May declined to decide the constitutionality of such enormous punitive-damage awards in personal-injury and breach-of-contract cases.
"NCR is an enormous organization, and it isn't going to change overnight," says Ronald Stanczak, a former executive.
In the early 1980s, Mr. Whitfield was managing Apple Computer Co.'s Macintosh ad campaign and saw firsthand the enormous sums spent on ads that got shelved after a few months.
So I have an enormous anger and have to make a decision.
All three networks do enormous amounts of expensive in-depth reporting.
Unforeseen at the time of the 1982 accord were the enormous trading volume in stock-index futures and the extent of the interplay between stocks and stock-index futures.
"There is an enormous amount of pent-up demand (to make stock and bond issues)," said Dean Eberling, securities industry analyst for Shearson Lehman.
Despite an enormous amount of rhetoric everywhere these days about our trade problem with Japan, only Mr. McGurn's article touches on what I regard as the real essence of the problem: Japanese agriculture.
The market reaction arose partly from Prozac's enormous recent buildup.
(The defendants have denied any wrongdoing.) The suit's outcome may have enormous implications for some small companies.
You're buying enormous lifetime protection," says Judy Schub, a lobbyist for the AARP.
Several new likenesses are three stories high, including one enormous statue of Saddam Hussein standing stiffly at attention, his arm outstretched at a 45 degree angle.
Nor do Republicans owe their gains to President Reagan's enormous popularity in the region or to a realigning issue.
In the past 10 years, the funds, and their founder, have made an enormous amount of money.
"(President-elect George) Bush is going to face a legacy of the Reagan administration in the enormous amount of debt at all levels of society," said professor Benjamin Friedman of Harvard University.
In addition, power companies face an enormous growth in demand, according to the Institute of Energy Economics.
He said he saw "furniture and enormous lumps of metal flying everywhere." "The whole of the buffet car disintegrated," Reeves said. "The roof split open like a ripe tomato and that's how we got out.
Mao did not attend the funeral ceremony, an absence Han Suyin does not note. Zhou was, of course, a very considerable leader of great charm which I have seen him use to enormous effect while manipulating a roomful of foreign journalists.
Critics have charged that even though the size of the lost tax revenues will be enormous, the bank board is not taking this revenue drain into account in figuring the total cost to the government of the bailout packages.
And I have enormous difference with the ACLU on their political agenda, not on their defending some minority opinion on the right or the left.
Kohlberg Kravis is said to have an enormous cash reserve at its disposal.
That doesn't require an enormous amount of marketing sense,' he says.
Given the enormous diversity of needs and the inevitable standardisation of publicly provided services, it is inevitable that such people should exist.
A "human bomb" attack, similar to last month's IRA bombing which killed seven people, failed when the enormous bomb fizzled, police said Friday.
In fact, some traders said the West German and Japanese central banks took advantage of the dollar's recent relative strength to sell dollars to reduce their enormous foreign-exchange reserves.
The kids also got to play volleyball and bounce on a trampoline. The toy room offered an enormous accumulation of playthings Jackson purchased on his recent 17-month world tour.
And then down the road, we have enormous commonality of interest with China, but it will not be the same under a brutal and repressive regime.
It gives us enormous firepower,' said Mr Luard, who retains 600,000 Flextech share options at 92p.

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