"enormous," 1590s, from Gargantua, name of the voracious giant in Rabelais' novels, supposedly from Spanish/Portuguese garganta "gullet, throat," which is from the same imitative root as gargle (v.).
实用例句
1. My gargantuan, pristine machine was good for writing papers and playing solitaire, and that was all.
我那庞大的 、 早期的计算机只适合写文章和玩纸牌游戏, 就这些.
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2. 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.
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3. Right away, I realized this was a mistake of gargantuan proportions.
我立刻意识到这是一个巨大的错误.
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4. 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.
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5. Gargantuan asteroid to pass near Earth this fall.
