Gigantic

(adj.) so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth; 'a gigantic redwood'; 'gigantic disappointment'; 'a mammoth ship'; 'a mammoth multinational corporation' .

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• But the key was an instrument of such gigantic proportions, that before they started Riah proposed to carry it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Gigantic attempted Robbery. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Trees gigantic and aged grew near; before the gate I discerned a crowd of moving human figures--with intense curiosity I lifted my glass to my eye. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Presently came ships of iron and steel, vast bridges, and a new way of building with steel upon a gigantic scale. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It was to be a picnic on a gigantic scale. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The window was partly open, and a wire led from the machine on the table through the window to a gigantic kite that a high wind kept flying fully 400 feet above the room. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• She produced it from her pocket with an air, after struggling with the gigantic door-key which had got upon the top of it and kept it down. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Everything is on so gigantic a scale. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• These curious and interesting structures, which may be considered the forerunners of the gigantic iron Tubular Bridges of the present day, were burnt by the French in 1799. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Here is a task so fine as to be gigantic. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It was at once clear that a daring and gigantic robbery had been committed. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• There were gigantic difficulties in the way of such an undertaking. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• My person was hideous, and my stature gigantic: what did this mean? 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• As they drew near, the sailor took one look at the gigantic creature and yelled to the captain: For heaven’s sake, man, don’t harpoon that thing; we will be crushed like an egg shell! 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The gigantic expansion of the iron and steel industry was foreshadowed in the change from wood to coal in the smelting furnaces. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He wanted to make a gigantic gyroscope weighing several tons, to be run by an electric motor and put on a sailing ship. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• We shall thus have a thin wall steadily growing upward but always crowned by a gigantic coping. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of exercising enormous pressure. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The nervous arm that wielded it, with such a gigantic force on public characters, was paralysed beneath the glance of the imperious Mrs. Pott. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• A new gigantic material framework for human affairs has come unto existence. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• To contemplate the dynamo with its clumsy, enormous spools, it suggests to the imagination of the average observer the gigantic toy of some Brobdingnagian boy--but the dynamo is no toy. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Three balanced cantilevers are employed, poised on four gigantic steel tube legs supported on four huge masonry piers. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Yet here the analogy of the animals might have saved Plato from a gigantic error, if he had 'not lost sight of his own illustration. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Advertising, for example, would be nothing but gigantic and systematic lying if almost everybody didn't know that it was. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He was evidently, though short, of gigantic strength. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The gigantic Front-de-Boeuf, armed in sable armour, was the first who took the field. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his gigantic client. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• That object which actuates and animates me in all my gigantic labours, Sir,' replied Pott, with a calm smile: 'my country's good. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• We see the same law in this author's restorations of the extinct and gigantic birds of New Zealand. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• So greatly has the climate of Europe changed, that in Northern Italy, gigantic moraines, left by old glaciers, are now clothed by the vine and maize. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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