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gargantuan [gɑr'gæntʃʊən]

a. 巨大的, 庞大的

Gargantuan asteroid to pass near Earth this fall.
大量小行星今秋将与地球错身而过。
Astronomers have seen gargantuan plumes of material from nearer galaxies as well.
天文学家也看到过较近的星系伸出的巨大的羽状物。
Falk even persuaded Nike to spend at least$1 million marketing Jordan, a gargantuan sum at the time.
福尔克甚至说服耐克公司至少花了100万美元去推销乔丹，这在当时是一笔巨额款项。

gargantuan

[ adj ]
of great mass; huge and bulky
<adj.all>
a jumbo jetjumbo shrimp

Gargantuan \Gar*gan"tu*an\ (?; 135), a. [From Gargantua, an
allegorical hero of Rabelais.]
Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage;
enormous; prodigious; inordinate.

Officials say they can't begin the gargantuan task until fighting in Afghanistan stops.
The gargantuan creation dwarfs Okmulgee's first giant-sized effort, a 12-foot diameter, 3,200-pound pie in June 1986.
Mr. Piano co-designed that gargantuan pile of tubes with Richard Rogers.
Then in a lightning plunge, the Dow Jones industrials in barely an hour surrendered about a third of their gains this year, chalking up a 190.58-point, or 6.9%, loss on the day in gargantuan trading volume.
Magellan may reveal whether the two planets also have similar geological processes, including movements of gargantuan plates of shifting crustal rock.
Like most companies that go through leveraged buyouts, BCI, a gargantuan food and consumer products company with about $14 billion of annual revenue, scrambled to cut costs and sell assets to pay down its debt.
The set is gargantuan, four stories of corroded scaffolding, orange girders and steam vents representing an abandoned steel mill that might easily dwarf any group of less mythic proportions.
They are relatively safe, even the doubled-fanged, gargantuan tarantulas that were used in "Arachnophobia."
Four weeks into the talks, Democrats are still complaining it is Bush himself who must convince a skeptical public that harsh steps are needed to battle the gargantuan federal deficit.
Another obstacle is the fact that Stalin's anti-intellectual legacy runs deep, both among the general populace and within the gargantuan party and state bureaucracy that wields central control.
This adds 17 extra minutes to Oliver Stone's already gargantuan three-hour Kennedy epic and I am dashed if I can tell what difference they make to the thesis or the dramatic effect, except to make a long film seem even longer.
Because lightning and sulfur dioxide can be caused by eruptions, the discoveries suggested a gargantuan volcano may have erupted shortly before 1978.
But only after a fleet of 336 gargantuan earthmoving vehicles belonging to De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd., the world's diamond kingpins, do their work.
But they say Robert C. Stempel, GM's chairman, will have to make much deeper cuts before the gargantuan auto maker can make money in North America.
Frustrated by a gargantuan checkout line, he bought nothing.
The rascal rose above his early antipathy for "Red" China and ventured forth in 1972 on a diplomatically risky mission to open the gargantuan land to the west.
Bits and pieces of the past, from miniscule to gargantuan, from the Americas to China, are specimens for Getty's experts: Tombs. Mummies.
This litany of under-performance could be extended ad nauseam. Bock's past does not suggest that he is the man to address that particular gargantuan task.

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