colossal

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BIGused to emphasize that something is extremely large 巨大的，庞大的

a colossal statue of the King

国王的巨大雕像

The whole holiday was a colossal waste of money.

这次度假浪费了大量的钱财。

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—colossally adverbadv

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colossal• The cost in terms of technological advance and the dissemination of fresh and stimulating ideas, is incalculable but colossal.• A crane arrived, its colossal arm reaching out of the sky toward the building.• It was a colossal disappointment.• They mix colossal metal riffs with hip-hop, employing four-letter lyrics.• You think the Red Cross is the savior during colossal natural disasters like earthquakes and hurricanes and floods and tornadoes.• Children are failing exams and dropping out of school in colossal numbers.• During the middle of each month the full moon was attacked by a colossal sow and ravenously devoured.• There was a colossal statue of the King in the middle of the square.• Ramses ordered colossal statues carved in his honor.• To cut our own throats so thoroughly and so hopelessly would require colossal stupidity.• You could try of course, but after a colossal, tiring ridge-walk you would be a dingbat even to think of it.• Indeed, even colossal traffic jams, for all their cost in wasted time, have failed to deter motorists.• Tabitha looked up at the colossal walls of seamless pink stone rising hundreds of metres overhead, disappearing up into the dark.

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