monumental

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1 [usually before noun]IMPORTANT a monumental achievement, piece of work etc is very important and is usually based on many years of work 豐碑式的，偉大的

a monumental contribution to the field of medicine

對醫學領域的重大貢獻

Charles Darwin’s monumental study, ‘The Origin of Species’

查爾斯•達爾文的不朽著作《物種起源》

2 [only before noun]TOO/TOO MUCH extremely large, bad, good, impressive etc 極大[壞，好等]的

Banks and building societies were yesterday accused of monumental incompetence.

銀行和購房互助協會昨天被指責極其不稱職。

a monumental task

艱巨的任務

There was a monumental traffic jam on the freeway.

高速公路上出現了嚴重的交通阻塞。

3 [only before noun]AA relating to a monument or built as a monument 紀念碑[塔]的；紀念性的，作爲紀念的

a monumental arch

紀念拱門

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monumental• The costs, of course, were monumental.• Of course, the statue of Michael Jackson, too, is a monumental advertising campaign.• He was also in the huge orchestra which recorded and toured performing Charles Mingus's monumental composition Epitaph.• The concert was a monumental embarrassment.• The Foreign Secretary opened his speech by referring to the monumental events that now surround us.• Nor will it suffice simply to survey the mass of habits and rituals involved in the monumental institution of the Empire.• But what a monumental place in the history of publicity she has.• The pharaohs lived in mud palaces but were buried in monumental stone edifices.• At the same time, a monumental struggle was going on in the state and federal courts.• It was a monumental task.• a monumental temple• Darwin published his monumental work on evolution in 1859.

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